2024 Election thread
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A cursory look and the application of some basic common sense tells you the Telegraph article is complete bollox. If the sector was really going to lose half their income they'd be screaming about it.
Next.
Edit: OMG you're actually trying to argue this.
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Tomorrow, Sunak will offer the quadruple lock, including a guaranteed rise of the state pension in line with inflation, average earnings, 2.5% or the % of conservative voters, whichever is highest.
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In the right places?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
That article was nearly a year ago. A lot more families will have taken fright now that 'Starmergeddon' (quite apt if you do have kids in private school) has become more of a likely prospect.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Who cares, they were packing the annoying ticks off to boarding school anyway, so they can spend the cash on an Air BnB now they are saving on school fees.
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You mean you ďont know...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Why would anything have changed? If it's down to affordability, the VAT is what it is.
PS. The polling (by the consultancy that works for independent schools) for the report the Telegraph is reporting on now was done over the past two years so no more up to date. The 42% is just nonsense.
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If you can’t afford the vat increase now the govt is doing your a favour as the prices over 5 years will be around that amount higher by the time they leave school anyways
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Have they done anything daft today, or is today's best thing still Ed Davey showing how poisonous the water is by falling in 5 times?
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Well, Farage decided that he would wind up the tories after all so things could get even more silly (preposterous) now.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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No, I've not done a map of available school places and compared that to a map of current fee paying schools, or modelled likely capacity issues based on a range of scenarios ranging from absolutely no difference whatsoever, to a cataclysmic demise of the fee paying sector, or anything like that.
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Stupid question perhaps, but does that poll reflect the proportion people actually in those age groups?
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More to the point, like all polls it relies on the answers from people who respond to polls. Who does that? 🤣
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
🤦🏻♂️No, that's not how YouGov or any reputable polling company does it's polling.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Post COVID in an ipsos mori poll 26% were reported as permanently wanting nightclubs and casinos shutdown and 19% wanted a curfew after 10pm.
I think it's easy to overestimate the British electorate.
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Please enlighten me.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
How to poll to get the answer you want
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!1 -
They've had another go
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
I don't get excited by policy announcements generally.
But this news was quite cheering
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They don't just stand in a shopping centre with a clipboard. Or take the first hundred people who answer the phone.
Obviously participation is voluntary but those polled are carefully selected to provide a representative sample of the population. There are people on here with a better grasp of the statistical mathematics involved in calculating how many people you need to poll to reach a representative sample but that's the gist of it. The polling needs to be accurate to be of value. Nobody is going to spend thousands to commission a poll if the results can't be relied on.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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May become a non-issue if Tice makes himself useful and mounts a successful challenge. I can some valid legal arguments on the discrimination front, as mentioned in the article.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yeahbut, they still need someone who says "Yes, I'll participate.".
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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Obviously.
Have you actively refused to be involved in a poll or is this a hypothetical refusal?
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Agree with this, apart from the last line:
Nobody is going to spend thousands to commission a poll if the results can't be relied on.Lobby groups do this all the time to confirm their bias
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Wee bit premature, no? Happy for him to waste other people's money but mounting a legal challenge to a proposed policy from a party not yet in government and therefore possibly months from even being discussed in Parliament... could it possibly be just a publicity stunt for the gullible?
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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That's rather a different thing than political polling. They're pretty easy to spot: "...in an online poll..." with no mention of the sampling methodology.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
