You look at the five Qualification Levels which are broadly equivalent to the standard grades in scotland. We have seen more young people achieve it, but weve seen the gap between rich and poor almost half. Weve also seen the number of poor people who leave school with no qualifications halve as well, so there has been progress made, but i make no bones about the fact we need to seek more progress, which is why we have a Major Programme of reform under way in Scottish Education. We have a Major Programme of reform under way in Scottish Educationlj will under way in Scottish Education. will go on to education and the details in a minute, but overall, the former head of policy for alex salmond calls it a lost decade. He isa salmond calls it a lost decade. He is a former head of policy and i dont agree with that assessment. Its a damning criticism from inside your own party. I dont accept the fa cts your own party. I dont accept the facts and figures bear out the assessment. We said we wo
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way back when when the senate used to consider its job serious and would go through a vetting process they would say to people like this i m sorry, you re not qualified for the job. what trump knows is that the republicans in the senate will rubber stamp just about anyone he sends up there. he will send up anyone and he will send up someone who has no qualification other than the fact ha he s personally loyal and willing to sort of shade the truth for the president. that s a bad thing for the united states. we should say that dr. ronny jackson is well respected that he was in that position before obama world people sang his praises. i want to bring in former senator barbara boxer to ask you this. if i m not mistaken, this is maybe the second largest administrative job in the federal government. is this person qualified for the job? should the senate confirm him? i don t know enough about him
washington post. there s a pattern here. there s a bunch of patterns. one is leaving shulkin out to dry which he likes to do. two is not firing him in person and three picking someone that he knows personally. and someone who has gilded the lilly to put it mildly on his behalf. a fourth would be someone who has absolutely no qualifications for the job simply because have you been a doctor does not mean you re qualified to run mammoth bureaucracy with embedded management issues. he hasn t been a hospital administrator or run a large organization. way back when when the senate used to consider its job serious and would go through a vetting process they would say to people like this i m sorry, you re not qualified for the job. what trump knows is that the republicans in the senate will rubber stamp just about anyone he sends up there. he will send up anyone and he will send up someone who has no
have to defend it in 2018 and that s why i think the people who are worried that the president is going to replace comey with some sort of a stooge that republicans in the senate will rubber-stamp. remember, it takes 51 votes to have a filibuster of nominees and i don t think mcconnell will allow his members to get in that kind of trouble and there are plenty of republicans that aren t critical of trump who are going to stick with them a lot longer whether it s one term or two and they plan to be in the senate for a lot longer than that. so i think the president will be under pressure to do a better job of explaining this so that he gets republican support and he s going to have to nominate somebody thought of similarly to how comey was thought of originally when he was first nominated to be the fbi director. regardless of who the president nominates, jackie, and as david importantly pointed out only needs 51 votes to get through. will that person have to recuse