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Do we know what his answer was?

Don’t worry, isn’t the age coming down to 16? You’ll be ok from this year 😉 I should have added to my post that back in the dark ages when I was in school only the really bright people went to university (and there were no student fees!).

Out of a group of my old school friends who failed their 11 plus, one became a presenter on Blue Peter, had his own TV series and appeared in several well known films. Another became a news reader for ITN. Another is a senior director in an accountancy firm. Another held a senior position here working against drug smuggling and ended up as a senior consultant in an S. American anti drug agency. Many of us ended up with decent middle management positions. In our first year in school in 1965 it was made clear to us most of us would likely end up working in the production lines in Twinlocks or Muirheads - light local industrial factories. All three of my daughters achieved 1sts at uni. Approaching their 30’s none of them are seeing the benefits yet in career procession or salary scales. On the plus side all three want us to rejoin the EU and none of them would ever vote Reform/Tory.

It certainly has. I prefer it to Tescos but might have to bite the bullet. I have to travel further for a Lidl or Aldi and can’t get all I need in those so don’t usually bother.

An excellent all round team performance today with a special shout out to Welington who had the best game I have seen him play so far. Two great saves from the keeper too. Stoke gave us plenty of room to play through them in the first half and we should probably have gone in at HT with a comfortable lead had we more better use of our attacking opportunities. Still, for a change we didn’t fold in the second half and did what was needed for the 3 points. Happy birthday Tonda! If the various reports are true it seems odd that we are apparently happy to sell Armstrong to our promotion rivals but not Edozie? I guess all will be revealed soon.

If eating a more healthy diet makes you an arse like yourself, I’ll stick to things I enjoy thanks.

No mention of how many were Hamas?

Perhaps there aren’t German equivalents to “buzzin’,” “over the moon” and “sick as a parrot?”

I didn’t go to university and I only went to a secondary modern school. I can, however, look at Farage, Reform and their policies and see that they would be a disaster for this country. You don’t have to have a degree to see that they sew division and hatred and are pitching themselves to the racists and xenophobes. If you are ok with that, fine, but you will have to accept the kickback from those who see things very differently and want to live in a better society.

Even by your very low standards this is an appalling post.

There have been stories of Trump raping children circulating for a while. Obviously in this day and age and Trump’s fake news smokescreens it is hard to know whether to take them seriously, but given how close he was to an actual peadophile….

They see what has happened in the US under Trump but still can’t see what will happen to them here if they vote Farage in.

Apparently Farage is saying that Reform have the most vigorous vetting process of all of the parties. Shame no one bothered to look at his X account. https://leftfootforward.org/2026/01/reform-forced-to-drop-another-candidate-over-abhorrent-and-sickening-social-media-posts/ He has admitted that a few “wrong ‘uns” slip through the net. A few??? 😂

Who knows? I think she would be more at home in the Reform party though.

Left leaning media? On what planet…