(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Seeing as there's a thread for the US Democrat & Republican parties... I thought it would be a good idea to make a politics related thread for here in the UK. I thought having 1 thread would increase the debates and discussion.

So yeah, talk about it here.

If you don't know much about UK politics, we currently have a coalition government between the Tories & the Lib Dems (Tories didn't get the majority of votes). The four main parties are:

Conservatives - British Conservatism, British Unionism, Eurosceptism -You must login or register to view this content.

Labour - Democratic Socialism, Support the working class -You must login or register to view this content.

Liberal Democrat - Social & Green Liberalism, Internationalism, Social Democracy, Left Libertarianism -You must login or register to view this content.

UKIP - Eurosceptism, Libertarianism, Traditional Conservatism - You must login or register to view this content.

There's also parties such as BNP who are right wing, BNP in particular are very anti-immigration, SNP & Plaid Cymru who focus on independence for their constituent countries, as well as other parties such as the Green party who support British Republicanism

Both Liam and Satan have now said something along the lines of "we won't change our minds" in order to end debate. I am most certainly capable of changing my mind, what about you? Says a lot I think.

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Disagree I wanted to show you some examples about how you're wrong on islam and how it misguided.
Far bigger problems for society, still does not discount it a problem to solve. Sad thing is we don't fix the other problems just shout over something that appears in the news now and again.

i really dont care for my reply

Seen as this is a generic UK politics thread without a focus on any particular aspect of politics. I would like to know your views on the changes that Michael Gove, the UK education secretary, said he will make to the current education system. Here are some of the many things that were said earlier in today's speech in the house of commons:
- New grading system will be integrated. students will be grades on a 1-8 scale. 1 being the highest and 8 being the lowest.
- This new system will be more "rigorous" than the current structure of a British education.

In my personal opinion, I find this exceedingly dehumanising because of the fact that many of us have qualifications such as GCSEs which have been classed as "not" rigorous. Will employees look down on the qualifications that we earnt? If so, is that our fault, or rather the fault of the education ministers.

Share your views guys, I'm really interested in what NGU has to say.

He a ideological , moron who neglecting evidence based policy methods for ideologic reasons.
Instead of making it more rigorous he making it worse and going to destory a generation of kids.
Sounds good but makes bad policy

It a shame because he could fix the education system in the UK from the schools to uni to provide a even better system. He trying to solve the problems of today with methods of the past which we done and failed. To be fair we do pretty well when you compare us is room to improve on. UK Statistics Authority has already jumped on DoE before for the misuse of data to provide a case for this reform.
GCSE should go be replace by something smarter and modern.

The current educational model that revolves around exams is stupid to begin with. It doesn't measure anything of actual importance other than memory, and the things you 'learn' (read: memorize) are forgotten once the exams are over. Whilst I can't think of a viable solution that doesn't mean we should waste our time on different ways of rehashing the same broken system.

We should follow the model finland did which was less tests more teachers focused. Nordic countries are miles ahead in terms of education.

As somebody who is currently sitting their GCSE's, I won't be happy knowing that people have an advantage over me when applying for a new job simply because of the education system around at the time. In my opinion, GCSE's are fine as they are, you need to work hard for them but they're not impossible. Almost feels like we're being antagonised for the education system they themselves have put in place.

TLR: I agree with Dexterous. It's not fair on people with GCSE qualifications.

Haven't replied since I've been on my hols for 2 weeks but I think you'll find I am capable of changing my mind, I'm not bigoted. It's the simple fact there is nothing in regards to Islam that would change my mind because I've seen what that specific religion and religion as a whole is capable of. Abit like the school playground their reputation precedes them.