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Today we launched a report: https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Lifelong-Learning-Report-2019.pdf which I’ve been working on for 9 months since its launch and a few years prior to that to get it to that stage. Very proud of its recommendations and the party adopting it as policy, which if elected, could be a radical step to improving people’s lives and making a huge difference to the social, health and wellbeing of so many adult learners that have been lost from the system over the last decade. Not to mention help to close the massive skills gap in this country that keeps on growing. Sure some of you may have seen it in the media today if you’re following election coverage but just wanted to share in case anybody wanted to have a read.

Yeah I definitely hear tidbits about it, the first couple of years of primary school are very heavy on educational play. I don't know much of the detail as if I have anything to do with primary colleagues it's at the other end of their school but from what I know yeah it's quite a significant thing.

BUT YOU'RE A TORY FROM THE SOUTH! P.S Good read and promising to see, specifically employer engagement as always been a fan of developing your own staff as much as hiring good 'ready-made' individuals.

Seen it mate and a big fan of it. It would be huge for some more of the teenagers that are unlucky enough to find themselves sat in front of me in a maths class to see education as a lifelong process through having parents, carers and other adults engaging with their own learning. Would hopefully go some way to healing the outlook that many kids have where they just have to put up with school until they reach 16 then they never "have to" learn anything again. Top work .

My all time favorite F1 video.

Ok Boomer.

I could sympathise with your political views at times but what worries me is that you act like one of those people that exist on both sides who cares more about revelling in the other side "losing" than actually having a constructive debate. I get that it annoys you that nearly everyone on this forum disagrees with your stance on politics and Brexit, but it's not like people are ganging up on you individually. People like this exist on both sides of the debate. I don't personally believe this but for argument's sake, let's say both sides are as bad as each other. What benefit does it do the country if, whatever happens with Brexit, it ends up with one half(ish) of the population rubbing the other half(ish) of the population's noses in the eventual outcome that they didn't want? The worst thing about Brexit is how it has divided people. I can't see how anyone wants to encourage that. People on the Remain side generally blame the leading politicians who were found guilty of breaking the law during the referendum campaign and now appear to be covering up a report on Russian interference in that process for their own benefit, for misleading the public. The most prominent Remainers, again generally, go about the debate by posting facts and projections from usually reliable sources about the potential consequences of various versions of Brexit that have looked a possibility in the past few years. Unfortunately, the most vocal Leave supporters frequently seem more interested in "winning the argument". The quiet majority of you are probably just quietly grumbling that it should have been done by now and their vote hasn't been followed through so they're annoyed, and that's a justifiable position. These people are the ones who probably want to Leave because they genuinely think it's the best thing for the country. I'm not going to judge you as a person as we've never met, but going off your posts on the topic in this thread, you come across as if you actually enjoy the fact that Brexit is causing a lot of upset for the half of the country that don't actually want to see us come out. It's one thing to want to see what you believe is democracy being carried out but acting as if it's some funny thing to rub in people's faces this result that they have good reason to believe is potentially going to make their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren significantly worse than it would be otherwise, doesn't make it come across as if you're trying to argue what's best for the country. For the sake of seeing things from both sides, which I always try to do, I'd love to be able to say that there are a significant amount of Remainers that I've come across who have the same vindictive attitude towards people who voted the opposite way, but that's simply not the case. There are some who will wrongly call Brexit voters idiots but I don't think I've met many or any who would actively go to their Leave voting mates and rub it in their faces that they "lost". People who don't want Brexit only desire the relief of it being cancelled, not to revel in the despair of the Leavers who would be disappointed with that happening. Throw in as many "most"s and "generally"s there as you like, the most important thing here is that I'm not stereotyping any groups of people, there are plenty of shades of grey on each side but that's my honest take on things.

If our electorate are stupid enough to allow themselves to be manipulated by the newspapers then they deserve what they get. It happened with Brexit, if it happens again with this extreme and corrupt Conservative government then we can just give up independent journalism and debate and let the country rot in its own shit for a few years before they finally realise they shouldn't believe everything they read. Too bad people will literally die in extreme cases and 'only' go without education, healthcare and jobs in many other cases. I found it astounding that I saw a poll the other day about who would you trust more with the NHS. Johnson and Corbyn were both on equally low scores. How enough people in this country have been brain-washed into thinking that Corbyn or indeed any Labour leader can be trusted as little on the NHS as Boris Johnson for that to be the case is terrifying on many levels, but sadly not surprising..

Been a while but here we go.

Could just be me but I would have thought a bridge might be in order or would that take away from the Aussies sense of adventure??

Stone the crows @Toinho, @Harry, is this place near your neck of the woods?