Comments on: LDVideo … Balls, Murdoch & Jon Culshaw’s Brown rap http://www.libdemvoice.org/ldvideo-balls-murdoch-jon-culshaws-brown-rap-16885.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: john oakes http://www.libdemvoice.org/ldvideo-balls-murdoch-jon-culshaws-brown-rap-16885.html#comment-102247 john oakes Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:24:01 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=16885#comment-102247 Mr Brown is right: specialist biological facts are not something that everyone is expected to know. But ordinary mental arithmetic is, and that's what we have here. Eleven-year-olds used to answer that sort of question with ease. But GCSE Candidates.......? Mr Brown is right: specialist biological facts are not something that everyone is expected to know.

But ordinary mental arithmetic is, and that’s what we have here. Eleven-year-olds used to answer that sort of question with ease. But GCSE Candidates…….?

]]> By: Herbert Brown http://www.libdemvoice.org/ldvideo-balls-murdoch-jon-culshaws-brown-rap-16885.html#comment-102208 Herbert Brown Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:49:18 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=16885#comment-102208 <I>"First up is Ed Balls ... here he completely out-smarts tongue-tied Tory education spokesman Michael Gove"</I> You really think so? By making out that 3.75 - 1.4 = ? is a "really hard" question, to which he doesn't know the answer? It's bad enough that anyone could think that question was appropriate to a GCSE exam rather than a primary school arithmetic test, but that the cabinet minister in charge of education should be incapable of performing a simple subtraction is truly frightening. “First up is Ed Balls … here he completely out-smarts tongue-tied Tory education spokesman Michael Gove”

You really think so?

By making out that 3.75 – 1.4 = ? is a “really hard” question, to which he doesn’t know the answer?

It’s bad enough that anyone could think that question was appropriate to a GCSE exam rather than a primary school arithmetic test, but that the cabinet minister in charge of education should be incapable of performing a simple subtraction is truly frightening.

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