How do we think EU negotiations will go?

[drainbrain]

Yawn....

Stuck with a n other irrelevant sidetrack to thread topic turning unpleasant??

Try this:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cms...

excerpt:

"In this report we examine the extent to which these inter-country differences in productivity performance can be attributed to skill deficiencies in the UK relative to the other three countries, paying particular attention to national-institutional differences in the ways that skills are produced and developed in each country".


Yawn....

Edited by drainbrain on Wednesday 25th October 17:20

[KrissKross]

Mrr T said:

Since there is clear evidence EU immigrants are better educated than the UK average. That means they will have improved productivity.

Their education is not better than ours, hence why they are here and sending their children to our schools.

What they (many but not all) do have is a far better attitude. You can train/teach anyone with the right mindset but you cannot help homegrown scrotes with bad attitudes who don't want to learn.

[sidicks]

drainbrain said:

Yawn....

Stuck with a n other irrelevant sidetrack to thread topic turning unpleasant??

Try this:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cms...

excerpt:

"In this report we examine the extent to which these inter-country differences in productivity performance can be attributed to skill deficiencies in the UK relative to the other three countries, paying particular attention to national-institutional differences in the ways that skills are produced and developed in each country".


Yawn....

If only that actually addressed the claim that was made!

[drainbrain]

KrissKross said:

Mrr T said:

Since there is clear evidence EU immigrants are better educated than the UK average. That means they will have improved productivity.

Their education is not better than ours , hence why they are here and sending their children to our schools.

What they (many but not all) do have is a far better attitude. You can train/teach anyone with the right mindset but you cannot help homegrown scrotes with bad attitudes who don't want to learn.

To what do you attribute the uncanny ability of even the humblest of foreigners to speak at least a bit (if not a good bit) of da Eengleesh and to what do you attribute our relative inability to do the same in their tongues?

[Funkycoldribena]

KrissKross said:

Mrr T said:

Since there is clear evidence EU immigrants are better educated than the UK average. That means they will have improved productivity.

Their education is not better than ours, hence why they are here and sending their children to our schools.

What they (many but not all) do have is a far better attitude. You can train/teach anyone with the right mindset but you cannot help homegrown scrotes with bad attitudes who don't want to learn.

Does make me laugh,I'm amazed there isn't a mass exodus what with our lousy schools and the economy about to go down the pan.

[drainbrain]

sidicks said:

If only that actually addressed the claim that was made!

I agree

You win!

[Jockman]

drainbrain said:

KrissKross said:

Mrr T said:

Since there is clear evidence EU immigrants are better educated than the UK average. That means they will have improved productivity.

Their education is not better than ours , hence why they are here and sending their children to our schools.

What they (many but not all) do have is a far better attitude. You can train/teach anyone with the right mindset but you cannot help homegrown scrotes with bad attitudes who don't want to learn.

To what do you attribute the uncanny ability of even the humblest of foreigners to speak at least a bit (if not a good bit) of da English and to what do you attribute our relative inability to do the same in their tongues?

Our music, duh

Try this for a wee bit of Romanian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HR4hp_-kSI

[KrissKross]

drainbrain said:

KrissKross said:

Mrr T said:

Since there is clear evidence EU immigrants are better educated than the UK average. That means they will have improved productivity.

Their education is not better than ours , hence why they are here and sending their children to our schools.

What they (many but not all) do have is a far better attitude. You can train/teach anyone with the right mindset but you cannot help homegrown scrotes with bad attitudes who don't want to learn.

To what do you attribute the uncanny ability of even the humblest of foreigners to speak at least a bit (if not a good bit) of da English and to what do you attribute our relative inability to do the same in their tongues?

So your evidence is based on MrrT's expertise but my view that it's not necessary "better" is incorrect, why don't you ask him where his "clear evidence" is?

[KrissKross]

Funkycoldribena said:

Does make me laugh,I'm amazed there isn't a mass exodus what with our lousy schools and the economy about to go down the pan.

Have you left?

[sidicks]

drainbrain said:

To what do you attribute the uncanny ability of even the humblest of foreigners to speak at least a bit (if not a good bit) of da Eengleesh and to what do you attribute our relative inability to do the same in their tongues?

The fact that English is a world language would seem a logical reason for that.
Plenty of people speak a small amount of more than one foreign language, and children are now learning foreign languages from a much earlier age, which is a good thing.

[Funkycoldribena]

KrissKross said:

Have you left?

???

[mx5nut]

Funkycoldribena said:

Does make me laugh,I'm amazed there isn't a mass exodus what with our lousy schools and the economy about to go down the pan.

"Facts don't matter, my feelings tell me things are different because <extreme example of end result>"

[anonymous-user]

drainbrain said:

To what do you attribute the uncanny ability of even the humblest of foreigners to speak at least a bit (if not a good bit) of da Eengleesh and to what do you attribute our relative inability to do the same in their tongues?

Necessity. If you can speak English the world will speak along with you, this is expanding rapidly too. It is the world language.

If you are a native English speaker, what other language do you choose to have the same scope? Certainly not French, which was the only choice I had in school.

[anonymous-user]

Jockman said:

Our music, duh

Try this for a wee bit of Romanian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HR4hp_-kSI

Got those now playing in autoplay, good stuff.

[Jockman]

jsf said:

Jockman said:

Our music, duh

Try this for a wee bit of Romanian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HR4hp_-kSI

Got those now playing in autoplay, good stuff.

Future classic.

[drainbrain]

jsf said:

drainbrain said:

To what do you attribute the uncanny ability of even the humblest of foreigners to speak at least a bit (if not a good bit) of da Eengleesh and to what do you attribute our relative inability to do the same in their tongues?

Necessity. If you can speak English the world will speak along with you, this is expanding rapidly too. It is the world language.

If you are a native English speaker, what other language do you choose to have the same scope? Certainly not French, which was the only choice I had in school.

There are many reasons to teach/learn English. It's the third most spoken language on the planet. And the fact is many schools in many countries include it in their curricula. It's revealing that your only foreign language choice at a UK school was French. I'd hope that these days given its importance on the world stage and apparent projection as 'imminently pre-eminent' China's main tongue Mandarin would be on every UK child's school curriculum. I mean why wouldn't it be? You can be sure English is on theirs.

Edited by drainbrain on Wednesday 25th October 22:58

[amusingduck]

drainbrain said:

It's revealing that your only foreign language choice at a UK school was French.

Oh?

What does it reveal?

[SantaBarbara]

mx5nut said:

Your profile doesn't mention an occupation, but I'm assuming groundsman based on your experience moving the goalposts

That is quite witty for you

[sidicks]

SantaBarbara said:

That is quite witty for you

Indeed, I’d go as far to say it was very witty, albeit entirely incorrect!

[drainbrain]

amusingduck said:

drainbrain said:

It's revealing that your only foreign language choice at a UK school was French.

Oh?

What does it reveal?

It reveals a certain limitation to the understanding of the importance of being able to communicate with a range of foreign peoples on the part of those planning that school's curriculum. Probably (sadly) widely shared.