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Post by LiveWire83 on Mar 2, 2010 12:50:11 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D But only you?. I can't believe this in a forum of him. I bet he needs a massage between the meetings. Anyone?
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Post by Dizzylizzy on Mar 2, 2010 13:56:23 GMT -5
;D obligatory guitar- and football lessons in all English schools
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Post by LiveWire83 on Mar 2, 2010 13:57:43 GMT -5
Hahahaha.
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Post by Thundergirl on Apr 8, 2010 12:43:58 GMT -5
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Post by LiveWire83 on Apr 8, 2010 12:55:25 GMT -5
I loooove the pic!!!! Thank you very much.
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Post by nooks on Apr 8, 2010 14:24:17 GMT -5
I'd better help and knock on people's doors cos it'd take more than one person. Now we're getting there, do ya think that maybe we should tell Andy what he's doing as he's got less than a month to go before the big day!
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Post by Miss Elaine on Apr 8, 2010 14:36:55 GMT -5
I'd better help and knock on people's doors cos it'd take more than one person. Now we're getting there, do ya think that maybe we should tell Andy what he's doing as he's got less than a month to go before the big day! No, let's surprise him! I'm sure he'd be thrilled to blandly watch the election results on the BBC only to discover he won!!
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Post by nooks on Apr 9, 2010 14:00:04 GMT -5
That's fine but we'd need to find an Andy impersonator. We don't want the public thinking that he's another politician who sits on his backside doing nothing and claiming expenses for it!
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Post by Miss Elaine on Apr 10, 2010 22:42:11 GMT -5
We can have him do a pub crawl tour. ;D
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Post by Dizzylizzy on Apr 13, 2010 3:14:47 GMT -5
elections and music in 'The Guardian' today :
Music funding: what the three main parties say
I got a firm commitment from the parties' culture representatives to preserve the In Harmony project. But what about the rest of their policies?
Julian Lloyd Webber ... chairman of the In Harmony project : Before I'm off for a couple of weeks, just a brief update from Music Matters at the weekend with the cultural gurus of the three main parties – Labour's Ben Bradshaw, the Tories' Ed Vaizey and Don Foster for the Lib Dems.
All three gave me definite commitments that they would continue to support the three In Harmony projects in Liverpool, London and Norwich – so that's something we have to hold them to in the future. Also, Vaizey admitted the mistakes the Conservatives made in the past with the Education Reform Act (the 1988 legislation that removed the statutory obligation for local education authorities to maintain their music services). He said that under the Tories, music's place on the national curriculum would be non-negotiable, something that was unclear from the party's previous statements. However, beyond the expected platitudes, neither of the parties had any clear strategy as to how they would develop the work the present government has done for music in primary schools into the secondary sector.
And none of them said they would ring-fence the arts budget, even if they all optimistically thought that a combination of encouraging private-sector philanthropy and National Lottery reform would make up the shortfall when the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's budget is almost inevitably cut. Ben Bradshaw admitted the Licensing Act of 2003 needed urgent reform, with its ludicrous restrictions on musical performance in public places, and all three parties agreed they would tackle these issues in a new parliament – another commitment to which we should hold them accountable. Unlike in previous elections, there is evidence that the three parties understand the cultural and educational importance of music. But promises are one thing, meaningful policy quite another: we'll have to wait until 7 May to see how much substance there is to the rhetoric.
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Post by nooks on Apr 13, 2010 14:31:33 GMT -5
To think, we're going to get all these policies and whatnots right up until 6th May!
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Post by Miss Elaine on Apr 16, 2010 2:57:03 GMT -5
Lucky you - we'll be getting it all until November!
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Post by nooks on Apr 16, 2010 14:53:31 GMT -5
You have my sympathy there Elaine.
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Post by fan on Apr 27, 2010 13:52:43 GMT -5
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Post by nooks on Apr 27, 2010 14:24:08 GMT -5
Great pics Fan, thank you for posting.
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