[Andy McDandy]

The press seem to have settled on the idea that if only the Tories stopped their infighting, they'd be on the path to electoral success. While party unity is certainly important, it masks an unwillingness to face the real reasons for their electoral woes: blatant corruption and full cuntery.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Apart from anything, Starmer did this only a couple of months ago. They've deliberately forgotten because it doesn't fit their narrative.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -crossings

This confused me too. I thought Starmer had committed to an extra 100,000 or something.

[davidjay]

Another day, another reminder.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What has the National Anthem got to do with (increasingly international) students getting awarded degrees anyway? Do other places that get public money have to play it? And why is the Deputy Prime Minister interfering in this bollocks?

Otherwise, great point.

[Andy McDandy]

2 weeks ago I was at Cumbria University's graduation ceremony in Carlisle cathedral. No national anthem. How do I dob the fuckers in?

And who should I dob in? The mayor, the bishop, or the VC?

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is Dowden's audience.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Been to two convocations and two award ceremonies. No anthems at all.

Man's a cunt.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'd be surprised if his alma mater (Cambridge)) did the National Anthem in his time.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Why would they? It just isn't that kind of event. Ever.

I'm assuming that the mouth-breathing flag-shaggers that he's dogwhistling have no idea what such a ceremony would be like, as you don't get them for a 25 metre swimming certificate.

Man's a cunt. Did I say that already?

[Andy McDandy]

Yup. Bloody Students meets Just What Are They Teaching our Kids, spliced with All Bloody Foreigners on That Campus, and finished off with a topping of What are You Wasting Taxpayers' Money On?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

University of life.
School of Hard Knocks.
Common Sense Innit.
Student Poofters.



Cunts.

[kreuzberger]

Like the vast majority of the Gammon, I have no education to speak of, so I don't know whether the national anthem is/was played at graduation ceremonies. Seems that they have fallen for the mixed-metaphor-rich opening salvo of red meat in the trenches of the latest front in the entirely manufactured episode of these culture wars.

Innit.

[RedSparrows]

Excuse me, what taxpayer subsidy?*
*yes yes research grants etc, but seriously, pulling the 'you bite the hand that feeds...!' warning from UK govt to universities is pretty hilarious, in a mirthless way.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Some survey results on graduate salaries.

https://thetab.com/uk/2023/06/28/the-be ... ity-314675

Bristol comes 14th out of the Russell Group, and presumably not all that much lower out of all universities. I think the UK does all right out of its "subsidy" of Bristol University.

I lose track. The Russell Group used to be the gold standard, contrasted by the right with new universities who awarded degrees if you sent off enough cornflake packets. But the Russell Group are bad now as well?

[Andy McDandy]

My first graduation was 1998, in Lancaster. Princess Alexandra doing the honours. No national anthem, no songs at all. Not even Vindaloo, which was the big hit of that summer.

[Bones McCoy]

Some survey results on graduate salaries.

https://thetab.com/uk/2023/06/28/the-be ... ity-314675

Bristol comes 14th out of the Russell Group, and presumably not all that much lower out of all universities. I think the UK does all right out of its "subsidy" of Bristol University.

I lose track. The Russell Group used to be the gold standard, contrasted by the right with new universities who awarded degrees if you sent off enough cornflake packets. But the Russell Group are bad now as well?

The ERG have plagirized the MAGA mob.

Universities are now BAD - breeding grounds for Cultural Marxism, blue haired queer women with pronouns.
They'll corrupt your kids, make them smoke reefers, party with hispanics and blacks, turn them away from the LORD!!
Don't send your kids there, get them a patriot job harvesting food down the farm.

Oxford gets a pass - Obvs.

[Oboogie]

I've attended graduation ceremonies at (I think) eight different universities (Manchester, Oxford, Nottingham, Aberdeen, Swansea, Northampton, Sunderland and Teesside). Of these, the only one at which I recall the national anthem being sung was my sister's at Nottingham in 1979 (I only remember because our dad bellowed out God Save The King very loudly and embarrassed my mum which 15 year old me found hilarious). I can't swear to it that none of the others sang it, but I don't think so.

[Spoonman]

[Watchman]

I guess he’ll rely on his wife to “ stick up” for him

[Youngian]

On today’s Tory advent calendar from Hell. Any other ideas, lads?