Stuart Broadhurst

Not all Pandas are Giant. No DMs please.

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@AndrewRosindell You greatly play up your own roll in being elected. You were elected as a Conservative MP. You have now defected to an extreme right wing party, so you owe it to the electorate to resign and then stand as a member of your new party.

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

The white “forgotten White working-class boys” debate keeps surfacing from time to time, and everyone rushes to blame someone else. Usually immigrants.

The data doesn't support that. Steve Strand's longitudinal study of British pupils found two root causes that drive school performance and underperformance: provision and culture. Provision, the government can fix. Culture, it can't.

On provision, the story is straightforward. The poorest-performing white British working-class boys live in coastal towns and de-industrialised areas where schools struggle to retain teachers and standards slip. White boys on free school meals have the lowest progression to higher education of any main group - just 12.7% by age 19. Over half are persistently absent. This is a state failure, and it's fixable.

The cultural element is trickier. Attitudes to education in these families are poor - low aspiration, little value placed on school discipline, high truancy even where the school itself is adequate. The data on motivation and behaviour is stark regardless of provision quality.

Where immigrants enter the picture, it's as parallel cases, not villains. Chinese and Indian pupils top attainment tables. Black African children outperform white British peers too. The common thread isn't race; it's that these families, self-selected for migration, tend to bring high cultural capital around education - heavy investment, discipline, sacrifice. Bangladeshis improved as London schools did. Black Caribbeans lag similarly to white working-class boys, with comparable cultural patterns Tony Sewell identified.

Governments can equalise school standards across geography. What they cannot do is parent. At some point that distinction has to be named plainly, however uncomfortably.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

I have formally referred South Wales Police to the equalities watchdog.

Their guidance amounts to a blasphemy law against Islam and has no basis in law.

We cannot put one religion on a pedestal above others.

We should all be equal before the law.

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@murdo_fraser @RolandButter12 Probably a bit of the latter 😳

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@JonHollis9 Thankfully their lying will prove to be self defeating as people will see from their obvious lies what they truly are.

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@JonHollis9 @AddictScrabble ….and then there are still another 3 years to go before the next general election and for the voters to see through Reform’s thin veneer of respectability 😳

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@CCHQPress @nadhimzahawi He made himself look an idiot trying to defend the indefensible. Classic case of “my truth”😜

[Rik_W 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇪 @Rik_w2010]

If you are a Conservative in Makerfield I urge you, do NOT under any circumstances vote for Reform/Kenyon.

All you would be doing is boosting Farage (and Yusuf) in his mission to destroy your party.

If Burnham wins, the shine will come off him very quickly AND it will leave a legacy of bitterness and division within Labour.

Vote for the best candidate:

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@Nigel_Farage @nodbear When are you going to apologise to @KemiBadenoch ?😳

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@seledka_vodka @nadhimzahawi @KemiBadenoch Another distinctly dodgy Reform member

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@ThomasEvansAdur @PaulS872709 “Respect your side of the discussion”😂

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@ArchRose90 @nodbear General election is a long time away, plenty of time for all the Reform skeletons to come tumbling out of the cupboard 😜

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@PaulS872709 @ThomasEvansAdur Off you go now 👋

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@DerekAllan61 Is that an SNP mug? The colour looks right.😂

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@PaulS872709 @ThomasEvansAdur Not what you said before, As Jean-Jacques Rousseau said “Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.” 😑

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@boblister_poole 😜

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@PaulS872709 @ThomasEvansAdur Read your post again, you said “boats”. Like a good Reform supporter you’ve been found out and are now changing the basis of your argument.

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@WingsScotland @bigfrankbutch12 Tbf it was fairly hidden😜😂

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@PaulS872709 @ThomasEvansAdur Another Reform supporter being economical with the truth. The Brexit referendum was in 2016. The boats were not a major issue, there were isolated incidents, but the sharp rise that turned it into a major political and public concern occurred mainly from 2018 onwards.🤔

[Stuart Broadhurst @Stuartpb1]

@putey_pute @Binnman7643 @ThinkerDj @Record_Politics 😜