WAGs: Carney vs Poilievre

[August1991]

Does it matter who is the spouse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Fox_Carney

BTW, a PPE from Oxford is also known - if you have one - as a "P*ss Poor Education".

 

 

Edited March 15 by August1991

[August1991]

I reckon that Justin Trudeau is no longer PM because Sophie left him.

[Michael Hardner]

10 hours ago, August1991 said:

I reckon that Justin Trudeau is no longer PM because Sophie left him.

I doubt it 😕 

 

Maybe these things are related though.  I suspect Trudeau was a philanderer with amazing cover-up skills on that front.

[SpankyMcFarland]

22 hours ago, August1991 said:

Does it matter who is the spouse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Fox_Carney

BTW, a PPE from Oxford is also known - if you have one - as a "P*ss Poor Education".

 

 

By whom is it known as that? Say what you like about PPE but it’s the course the British political elite tend to take to, well, an almost comical degree:

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Monday, 13 April 2015 was a typical day in modern British politics. An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), Ed Miliband, launched the Labour party’s general election manifesto. It was examined by the BBC’s political editor, Oxford PPE graduate Nick Robinson, by the BBC’s economics editor, Oxford PPE graduate Robert Peston, and by the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Oxford PPE graduate Paul Johnson. It was criticised by the prime minister, Oxford PPE graduate David Cameron. It was defended by the Labour shadow chancellor, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Balls.

Elsewhere in the country, with the election three weeks away, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Oxford PPE graduate Danny Alexander, was preparing to visit Kingston and Surbiton, a vulnerable London seat held by a fellow Lib Dem minister, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Davey. In Kent, one of Ukip’s two MPs, Oxford PPE graduate Mark Reckless, was campaigning in his constituency, Rochester and Strood. Comments on the day’s developments were being posted online by Michael Crick, Oxford PPE graduate and political correspondent of Channel 4 News.

On the BBC Radio 4 website, the Financial Times statistics expert and Oxford PPE graduate Tim Harford presented his first election podcast. On BBC1, Oxford PPE graduate and Newsnight presenter Evan Davies conducted the first of a series of interviews with party leaders. In the print media, there was an election special in the Economist magazine, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Zanny Minton-Beddoes; a clutch of election articles in the political magazine Prospect, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Bronwen Maddox; an election column in the Guardian by Oxford PPE graduate Simon Jenkins; and more election coverage in the Times and the Sun, whose proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, studied PPE at Oxford.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford-university-degree-that-rules-britain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[August1991]

Pierre Trudeau won a majority in 1974 because of Margaret.

[Army Guy]

On 3/15/2025 at 10:13 PM, SpankyMcFarland said:

By whom is it known as that? Say what you like about PPE but it’s the course the British political elite tend to take to, well, an almost comical degree:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford-university-degree-that-rules-britain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Are we supposed to be impressed that so many british MP have oxford educations, i wonder how is Britain's economy right now, must be doing extraordinarily good with so many oxford grads...and yet they seem to be having more issues than we are....and now we have the same problem ....

[SpankyMcFarland]

7 minutes ago, Army Guy said:

Are we supposed to be impressed that so many british MP have oxford educations, i wonder how is Britain's economy right now, must be doing extraordinarily good with so many oxford grads...and yet they seem to be having more issues than we are....and now we have the same problem ....

Oxford remains one of the best universities in the world and its PPE degree is an excellent way to start a political education but it’s not some sort of magic wand that will arrest a century of decline. 
 

Edited March 24 by SpankyMcFarland

[Army Guy]

9 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Oxford remains one of the best universities in the world and its PPE degree is an excellent way to start a political education but it’s not some sort of magic wand that will arrest a century of decline. 
 

Which was my point, this education does not mean your going to be an all star politician. nor does it mean that your the guy or women that is going to fix all of Canada's problems ....according to many british sources Carney was not all that and a slice of bread, very few have anything good to say about him, including other oxford grads...

[SpankyMcFarland]

1 hour ago, Army Guy said:

Which was my point, this education does not mean your going to be an all star politician. nor does it mean that your the guy or women that is going to fix all of Canada's problems ....according to many british sources Carney was not all that and a slice of bread, very few have anything good to say about him, including other oxford grads...

I was responding specifically to this degree being described as a p…. poor education. That statement is simply false. 

 

[SpankyMcFarland]

I don’t know whether Carney would sort anything out in Canada if he wins but I do think that success in any recognized field should be praised rather than condemned. Being a member of the banking elite, for example, requires hard work and talent.