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Not sure what Gillian Keegan's done that's a good job though. Did she say?
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Not sure what Gillian Keegan's done that's a good job though. Did she say?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Ah, the 'yes, I know we said we would fix it no matter what the cost was, but I didn't quite mean that cos the mean people at the Treasury said fuck off, there's no money. So, yeah'
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Hopefully won't accidentally fall through the floor in a case of dramatic irony
Love a bit of dramatic irony me...
you couldn't make this up
I mean this is a fucking terrible situation for so many young kids today but the schadenfreude of watching that idiot accusing her boss of sitting on his arse and doing nothing about this is quite delightful (coz let's face it, that's who she was referring to). That's that for her climb up the ladder done for, under this leader at least.
She probably does have a point mind you.
She probably does have a point mind you.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
John Craig on sky news just called ' the former apprentice from Merseyside, a breath of fresh air'.
If that was say, Angela Rayner ( can't stand that dickhead either btw) swearing they'd be calling for a beheading.
If that was say, Angela Rayner ( can't stand that dickhead either btw) swearing they'd be calling for a beheading.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I was thinking about this too - In the 70s and 80s I must have spent nearly 60% of my secondary school and 90% of further education in leaky freezing temporary classrooms.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Keegan has basically been left with the parcel now the music has stopped, this is a problem that dates back pretty much to the time she was a kid. Loads of politicians before her including her boss have known about this and have just kicked the can down the road for someone else.
So now she has to stand there and make noises about how they're going to fix it whilst knowing deep down they're not because it will cost too much. Tbf I can understand why she might feel a bit pissed off.
So now she has to stand there and make noises about how they're going to fix it whilst knowing deep down they're not because it will cost too much. Tbf I can understand why she might feel a bit pissed off.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Yeah. The whole 'This isn't even our department' thing felt so true to me. You see something odd and ask what is meant to be done and suddenly it's now your job.
Classic bad management all round.
Classic bad management all round.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
She does actually bear a passing resemblance
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
I should have said that I'm aware that leaving asbestos in situ is the only real option but the current issue is that the same building needs checking for RAAC. This couldn't be done over summer for some reason - didn't have the right equipment to get through/past the asbestos or something. Just found out that it's happening in about an hour.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I just checked Google Earth for my 1980s primary school, where I did my last two years in the new Portakabin Wing. It's since been doubled in height...
At least the sports field's not been sold off.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
she is the Kléber to everyone else's Napoleon, left holding the trousers full of shit
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I said I understood didn't say I sympathised.
Of course they will buy it. They’ll just say at least it was 50. And probably add that might’ve been more but for Labour setting off a global financial crisis. And they’ll all nod along with each other in agreement.
Yes, that too. Something to do with hotel bills, I can hear it now. “Could’ve been 55 schools a year had we not put half of Syria up at The Dorchester” etc. Of course the Tories will find excuses and diversions that millions will buy.
That is what they should show on the evening news. Don’t bleep it out, don’t add it as an extra to the Twitter account. Put it on the news, where everyone can see it - all the old Tories, all the swing voting parents making their kids watch the news as a family. ‘And here is what the education secretary said to us when we spoke to her earlier’.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
I find it hard not to sympathise, with her and Sunak over this.
Vile wretches they are of course but all of Westminster knows about this, or things very much like this done over the past forty years (like PFI, or many outsourcing deals, procurement, the railway and loads of other things where taxpayer money has been filched away with little to show for it), and yet every member of parliament, political journalist and commentator seem to be in some sort of giant Captain Renault / Hot Dog Man competition. When the guilty try and weaponise this it will be even more annoying, especially the anti-Sunak Tories.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Probably full of Ebola
Which tbh would be worthy news, and the truth, and might result in some of the sympathy she feels she’s entitled to. It’s really what she should say - just stand up and say ‘I’ve asked for £Xb which will barely cover the known costs as they stand today, but the chancellor has only agreed to cover 10% (or whatever the figure is) of it, so that’s where we are - 90% (or whatever the difference is) of affected children are going to remain at risk of building collapse. I will now let the health secretary and the housing secretary tell you the relevant figures from their departments’.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
At my last school there was one premises guy. He had to prioritise, which meant deciding which of half a dozen safety-critical jobs was the most safety critical.
The school would often get funding for one specific thing so he could get contractors in for that, but he couldn't spend the money elsewhere even if the need was far greater. Often he'd book contractors for school holidays to prevent closing bits of the school and creating a lot of disruption for the kids, and they wouldn't show up until three weeks later when it was impossible to do the work. Poor bloke left, went to work at another school that was even worse, and was back after three weeks.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Watched her earlier in the hoc .
She was speaking really really fast, probably in the hope she could get the fuck out of there quicker..
It reminded me of the episode of Father Ted were he rattled through his sermon so he could go and see the author he had a crush on.
She was speaking really really fast, probably in the hope she could get the fuck out of there quicker..
It reminded me of the episode of Father Ted were he rattled through his sermon so he could go and see the author he had a crush on.
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