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She was quite content condemning millions of others to suffering as a result of Tory policies, of course, but breaks down on national television as soon as she is the one feeling the - entirely predictable - brunt of it.  

Reminds me of this from the Private Eye:

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18 hours ago, DI Bruce Robertson said:


Yes, entirely logical.
However, when the bumpkin hater is arguing that every parent should have the choice to send their kids to a religious school of their choice, it becomes a problem for his argument?

That's not what I said. Catholics have the right to have their children educated in a Catholic school in Scotland, under the Education Act of 1918. Parents of other faiths (or none) are free to send their children to a Catholic, denominational school. They do not have the right to do so; and it is also not a "segregated" system in any meaning of the term.

Fairly straightforward stuff. 

1 hour ago, Wee Willie said:

and so is building a wire fence to divide a playground (based on religion)..

The "wire fence" isn't "based on religion" though. It's based on there being two different schools. There are wire and metal fences surrounding and members of staff patrolling school playgrounds up and down the country; just because you go to another school down the road doesn't mean that you can swan into another school's playground whenever you want. 

1 hour ago, Wee Willie said:

There should only be state schools (i.e. non-denominational) which educate all bairns.
If you want your bairns given religious instruction then see your local priest, rabbi, imam etc.

Non-denominational schools in Scotland are not actually non-denominational in form, regularly receiving visits from the local varieties of Protestant ministers. Which is one of the reasons why the Catholic minority will never allow their children to be sent there. That and the overwhelming benefits that denominational schools have had integrating the Catholic minority as social equals of the old, Protestant Scottish establishment. Not to forget the academic excellence of denominational schools in Scotland, which have proven enormously beneficial to the country as a whole.

You decisively lost all those battles years ago; get over it. 

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She was quite content condemning millions of others to suffering as a result of Tory policies, of course, but breaks down on national television as soon as she is the one feeling the - entirely predictable - brunt of it.  

Reminds me of this from the Private Eye:

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That was my thoughts on it.
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1 hour ago, virginton said:

That's not what I said. Catholics have the right to have their children educated in a Catholic school in Scotland, under the Education Act of 1918. Parents of other faiths (or none) are free to send their children to a Catholic, denominational school. They do not have the right to do so; and it is also not a "segregated" system in any meaning of the term.

Fairly straightforward stuff. 

The "wire fence" isn't "based on religion" though. It's based on there being two different schools. There are wire and metal fences surrounding and members of staff patrolling school playgrounds up and down the country; just because you go to another school down the road doesn't mean that you can swan into another school's playground whenever you want. 

Non-denominational schools in Scotland are not actually non-denominational in form, regularly receiving visits from the local varieties of Protestant ministers. Which is one of the reasons why the Catholic minority will never allow their children to be sent there. That and the overwhelming benefits that denominational schools have had integrating the Catholic minority as social equals of the old, Protestant Scottish establishment. Not to forget the academic excellence of denominational schools in Scotland, which have proven enormously beneficial to the country as a whole.

You decisively lost all those battles years ago; get over it. 

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You've been hounded on here.  You'll never get over it.

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Anyways, the Budget.  I'll be worse off by at least £225 each year from next year.  That's the extent of my analysis.

We wont raise Ni contributions they said in 2015 in there manifesto,and folk will still believe them
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1 hour ago, virginton said:

Non-denominational schools in Scotland are not actually non-denominational in form, regularly receiving visits from the local varieties of Protestant ministers. Which is one of the reasons why the Catholic minority will never allow their children to be sent there.

The causality actually runs the other way round.

The existing requirement for religious observance in non-denominational schools specifies that it should reflect the community it serves and by opting out of that community en-masse Roman Catholics leave non-denominational schools predominantly non-Roman Catholic.

Whether that means they're no longer non-denominational would depend locally on how many other denominations are active and that may well depend subjectively on whether you see all varieties of Christianity outside of Roman Catholicism as effectively the same denomination. 

If denominational schooling were abolished but existing religious observance legislation were retained then Catholic Priests would simply take their place on the roster of visitors to non-denominational schools. In areas, like your neck of the woods, where there were lots of Roman Catholics they would be on heavy rotation. In Aberdeenshire they'd probably pop their head round the door once a year.

Quite how your "staunch" equivalent would react to the idea of little William and Orangina occasionally being addressed in school by Father Kelly is something you're invited to ponder in your own time.

 

 

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