Mat Watkinson
Adam BienkovRishi Sunak will say today that we need to "reimagine our approach to numeracy".
Here's how he's reimagined it in the past.
Ms AB ☕@adambienkov If he means that bankers should become less greedy, I'm in. #mathswashing
WildKippers@adambienkov - Wasn’t it #Gove that wanted every school to perform ‘above average’ or some such … The point being that he displayed a fundamental innumeracy about what numbers and statistics mean
David_Rae@HuwDEvans @adambienkov
I think it was Garrison Keillor and the Lake Wobegon Radio Show where 'every child was above average'. Tories stole it from there maybe?
I think it was Garrison Keillor and the Lake Wobegon Radio Show where 'every child was above average'. Tories stole it from there maybe?
Russell 🏴🇺🇦🍉@adambienkov Manipulative and incompetent!
ArdentArchivistYeah, if he’s imagining that everyone in the country is capable of doing maths to A-level, he’s delusional.
There are so many things that need doing in the education sector - even if you only treat it as job training (which is appalling and disastrous) - but this is not one of them.
He’s a frigging idiot.
Richard@adambienkov Suspecting an advisor wanted Sunak to get even better at division and it got lost in translation.
Jim Wrinkle
Russell England 💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻Talking of numeracy...
Sunak joined the treasury in July 2019
Our national credit rating has been downgraded 3 TIMES since
It's been downgraded 7 TIMES under the Tories - they inherited a AAA+ rating in 2010
Moody's credit ratings for the UK
AAA+ from 1978
AAA- in 2012
AA1+ in 2013
AA1- on 24 June 2016 - the day after the EU ref
AA2+ in 2017
AA2- in 2019
AA3+ in 2020
AA3- in 2022 (After Trussonomics)
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@adambienkov Sunak in 2021
"People voted for us because they trust us with their money"
cc @Haggis
BlueThunder
RRBIn exchange, you are no longer affiliated with the largest common market for trade in the world. You have to accept some downside to be able to limit the size of your market and shrink your economy.
But, how else can you have parties while the country is in lockdown? Next thing you will be saying something silly, like mandating unpaid for tax breaks for the ultra-rich would damage your credit rating.