France decided to go for teacher assessed end-of-school grades, and created 10,000 extra uni places, so no-one of this generation will miss out. That’s a “proper country”. England, in contrast, is a “make-do-and-mend” country
Simon Hix
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Simon Hix
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Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, @eui_eu. FBA FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
- Great graphic by @jburnmurdoch. In other words, Britain is a poor country, with 1 moderately wealthy region.
- Replying to @toadmeisterOh dear Toby. 50,000 is 1% of 5 million. So, that’s 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, according to your own calculations. That’s the whole point!
- The case for Scottish independence has never looked stronger. The weakest aspect of the case was always economic, but that has suddenly switched. @NicolaSturgeon and @_KateForbes seem safe pairs of hands by comparison to @trussliz and @KwasiKwarteng.
- Latest @YouGov "Brexit: Right or Wrong" tracker data is out. Here's what the trend looks like. Wrong now 12 points ahead of Right.
- As others have pointed out: we will have had 2 general elections in 2 years, and 2 Tory leadership elections in 2 years, yet a narrow referendum result from over 2 years ago is untouchable. That’s British democracy for you folks!
- Meanwhile, the gap between the amount of people who think Brexit was "wrong", in hindsight, and the amount who think it was "right" just keeps getting bigger and bigger
- Too many MPs & pundits don’t realise that No Deal is NOT the end. It’s just the start of the next stage. UK will still need to do deals w/ EU on goods, services, medicines, data, security, research/educ, qualific’s etc. UK will have to compromise, and from an even weaker position
- Corbyn would remain “neutral” in a second referendum. In other words, he has no position on the most important issue of the day, no, in fact, the most important issue of several generations. I find that astounding for someone who wants to be PM
- Some news about me. Sad to be leaving LSE, which I have been part of in one way or another since 1987. But, I’m very honoured to be taking up the Stein Rokkan Chair, and really excited to be returning to the EUI.Prof Simon Hix will be joining the EUI in September 2021 from @LSEnews. He will take up the position of Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at our Department of Political and Social Sciences. Welcome (back) Simon! 🔗loom.ly/0iOSR48 @simonjhix
- Powerful and slick. These guys clearly know what they are doing. They make Change UK look like a bunch of kids who started a political party as a Year 9 school project."I served in the Royal Marines for over 10 years. I'm proud to be British, I'm proud of our tolerance, our diversity, of our liberal democracy. But the MP's at Westminster right now, they're letting down the British public." - @jaglancy, veteran and Brexit Party candidate.
00:00 - Interesting piece by @JamesMelville, explaining why many progressive Scots now support independence. I bet there are English progressives who feel the same: let Scotland go, so we can have at least one part of this island governed properly
- Yep. And they are utterly rubbish at football; way below the usual standard required to host a World Cup (and so be in the tournament without qualifying)
- Even that's not true, as Australia has a range of agreements with the EU. No Deal is more like an "Afghanistan style deal"PM Johnson: Britain should get ready for an ‘Australia style deal’
