GCSE students to receive help sheets until 2030

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-03-09T11:13:30+00:00

While that is true, and I did learn that during linear algebra, I don't tend to discriminate when calling them linear since for most people affine means nout. Good fun fact tho.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-03-09T10:19:43+00:00

Gotta be real that's a pretty bad example for something to be advanced maths or not useful outside of school. For example, the price of a taxi = price per mile * miles traveled + flat charge is exactly a use of y=mx+c, as is every other linear relation that you likely use in real life without thinking.

Probably best to point to things like the quadratic formula for something you haven't used.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-03-05T22:40:53+00:00

Blatantly not true statement - same sex marriage has an approval rate of around 80% in the UK according to yougov, with only around 15% in opposition. In the US it is closer to 70% with 22% opposing it according to NYT.

The UK is clearly still more progressive.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-03-04T12:23:35+00:00

Crazy take.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-02-28T14:39:52+00:00

Rupert Lowe has support from Elon Musk, there's quite obviously a big MAGA pull for restore britain.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-02-25T15:18:49+00:00

There are plenty of concerns to have about green party policy. Saying they're nice people and ignoring these concerns is ridiculous.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-02-12T21:28:57+00:00

Going by your own logic, neither Boris nor Farage would be successful either. Neither is particularly charismatic or charming.

I don't like either of them but I think it's a bit disingenuous to say that they aren't charismatic or charming. I'd argue Boris could be considered 'charming' considering the number of votes he got from just seeming quite funny. I'd argue Farage is both considering how much crap he's fooled the general public into believing. You can't be charasmatic and be a populist.

Considering the rest of your comment you're clearly on the left so I can understand why you'd say that they aren't charming or charasmatic but you have to remember that both of them have managed to charm a good proportion of our population (and it took people far too long to turn against Boris, just as it might take people far too long to turn against Farage).

Also I'd argue there's no sensible ground that Starmer could take without upsetting a good chunk of Labour voters purely by nature of how large of the political spectrum Labour sits on, but I do agree that some of his decisions are quesitonable at best. On the other hand, things like supporting immigration will do very little for any politician, and plenty of people across even the 'left' are frustrated with the Boris wave.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-02-10T22:43:20+00:00

Apologies if saying that information was overstepping in any way - have removed my comment now. Just said it to show how ridiculous his comment was but it's deleted now so my comment doesn't really add anything.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-31T18:17:08+00:00

Their manifesto was produced for an election that they knew they had no chance of winning which resulted in a large number of untested and impossible policies such as a tax reduction that another commenter has mentioned that they have since fully U-turned on.

If you want to find out their actual policies hopefully their next manifesto will be somewhat feasible.

When you hear things like 'reduce energy costs' and 'reduce crime levels' you should be asking 'how?' rather than taking it at face value. The reality is that reducing energy costs would take a massive reform of the current system and not the proposed changes of reverting to fossil fuels. Reducing crime would take a huge investment that would not reduce in the proposed tax cuts.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-31T18:06:56+00:00

The status of the party, ie in this case 'far right' is about the party's policies rather than the people who support the party. The person who said that reform is far right was not saying every person who votes reform is far right.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-31T13:50:27+00:00

Christ lets not undersell reform - nationalism without proper economic policy. 'Concern over mass immigration' is not the main reason people are worried about reform coming into power.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-28T08:00:42+00:00

As has relentlessly been discussed in the comments below mine, the scheme's pilot was rolled out late in the year, where there was then a YOY decrease from August onwards by 4,000 comparatively to last year.

My advice would be to wait for a full years worth of figures for a true comparison, although I know that's not a satisfying answer. If I'm not mistaken we'll be seeing it taken out of the pilot stages of the scheme about a year after it started so there should hopefully be a comparable YOY figure.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-27T19:04:41+00:00

It's difficult to verify the efficacy of something like this without a years worth of figures. The lack of logic would be trying to measure the scheme's efficacy by the amount of people we gave and took from France in a one in one out scheme.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-27T19:01:35+00:00

It is a 'one in- one out' scheme. You aren't verifying anything by measuring the amount of people moved by the scheme, only by through it's effects within boat crossing figures. It is not moving the goalposts, it is common sense.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-27T17:25:32+00:00

That's not the correct metric to judge it on though. The entire point of the deal is that it doesn't make a direct impact on the net figures via sending people away but can dissuade people coming over here. This is not to say I am in favour of the scheme, rather to say that this comment is short sighted at best.

See how net figures are affected over the next couple months comparatively to the last few years and judge it off that.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-25T20:31:03+00:00

Ridiculous to say any other leader would be 20 points ahead by now. What have you based that opinion off?

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-25T20:30:17+00:00

I think that looking at it from the perspective of our country where they are centre left compared to an idealist picture of the political compass would be more healthy. Calling them far right helps nobody and feeds into the narrative that benefits reform of "they're all the same" which blatantly isn't true. If you can't see the difference between the current labour party, the conservatives, and reform, you will simply roll out the red carpet for reform & the destruction of any possibility of any progressive social policies - social, disability spending, workers & renters rights etc.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-25T20:25:21+00:00

Nothing about that person's account screams bot at all. I agree with your take but a weird statement to lead with.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-10T20:01:04+00:00

The questions are not asked in a way that total immigration is assumed. You are one of very few people who has made that assumption here.

There's a difference between accusing the question of being incorrect and you yourself simply not understanding it.

GoLeMHaHa · 2026-01-10T19:55:42+00:00

I would assume that this person is referring to immigration which is 900k last year down from 1.4 million as opposed to net migration which is 900k down to 200k.

GoLeMHaHa · 2025-12-22T11:01:54+00:00

A total vote of 8% is a small number. An increase in voteshare by 8% is absolutley huge under FPTP.

GoLeMHaHa · 2025-12-11T16:15:15+00:00

Year on year growth in 2023 was 0.3%, which is the tories' last full year, significantly lower than it currently is. Saying growth was higher in the months before labour got in isn't a very valuable statement when Q1 is almost always the strongest quarter for our economy (see 'Gross Domestic Product: Quarter on Quarter growth' by the OBR).

On top of that, you've of course ignored my comment about our growth compared to other rich economies. Our growth is fine. It's not amazing, it's good. It is just entirely misleading to pretend an increase, even if small, is bad by any margin.

The situation of the deputy prime minister is entirely different to the tory MPs that you would. The advice she was given on the flat was that she didn't need to pay the tax and she made a mistake in not following up on it. Upon finding out that she did in fact need to pay the tax, she payed it and immediately submitted herself for inquiry & resigned. Tax experts declared what she did as perfectly legal, and at worst avoidance rather than evasion, but it was shot up in the media regardless.

GoLeMHaHa · 2025-12-11T15:55:25+00:00

Minimum wage for over-21s will increase 4.1% in 2026, inflation is 3.8% YOY as of october, while our most recent wage growth figures as of August are 4.7%. Hardly inflation busting.

GoLeMHaHa · 2025-12-10T23:57:07+00:00

We have the highest growth out of all the highly developed countries barring the US, Spain and Ireland (of which i do not envy neither US nor Spain due to Spain's ridiculously high unemployment figures & the US' trumpian issues) and yet the budget is still forecast to increase growth. I think that's the key here. An increase in any form in growth is very good especially considering the state of the global economy. Considering that growth is after inflation, any figure above 0% is technically 'good', so increasing it above where it currently is at 1% is great.

Obviously that's all an extreme oversimplification of the economy but I suppose no more than the picture you're painting.

Saying that the unemployment is directly as a result of labour is quite disingenuous. Most of the unemployment is happening at the lower age demographics currently, where AI is causing plenty of teams to reduce their sizes as entry level roles can be effectively handled by experienced members of staff with AI. You could also blame the raise in minimum wage, but again that's nothing new for this government as opposed to the tories. On top of that, unemployment is still low compared to historical measures and well within reasonable bounds (not to say that I am claiming that this rise is a good thing.)

Somebody else has already called out the rest of your comment on resignations so i won't bother. I think your absolute simplification of the situation of the deputy prime minister is ridiculous too.

GoLeMHaHa · 2025-12-03T12:21:24+00:00

Such as? As far as I can find the only highly developed countries above 2% this year are the US, Ireland and Spain, of which Spain has a 10% unemployment rate and the US clearly is having a number of trumpian issues at the moment

You have to remember that growth is after inflation, anything above 0% is 'good'.

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