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The Michael Gove File

This joker wasn't even born until after the Falklands war. I'm old enough at elast to remember the Sun's grotesque GOTCHA! headline in response to the Belgrano sinking.
This is the problem with today's young Tories (I include the current government here): they wished they were around in the 80s when Thatcher was fucking us over. They're living vicariously on fragments of memory. For them, it's a golden period that's only outdone by the 19th century when everyone knew their place.
 
Good spot of probable govey shenanigans from Paul @ TCF....

The (other) more cynical explanation is that Ofsted realises the political importance of getting as many schools as possible shifted from RI to good in the four terms which separate us from the general election, so that come March 2015 Gove is in a position to wave figures around to ‘prove’ that his school revolution worked.
 
The actual troops to teachers plan is a bit more subtle than what people are being told either. If you have a technical degree a funded pgcse or a funded 4 year degree course.
No deranged para with a knife between teeth suddenly takeing over form 5b :D No matter how many teachers wish for it after a particuly stressful day:D
Cadets much like boxing clubs actually do a lot of good not for every kid obviously its cheaper than most other youth groups as subsidised which really cant be justified on recruiting terms.
The guns and combats attract kids and they actually learn some useful stuff while still thinking they are the next generation of the SA.
 
I don't have a problem with the notion of troops to teachers as such: some of the training skills the military has are second to none. My concern is at the way it is seen as some kind of game changing universal panacea, which is the way politicians see it. It's as if the solution to every problem is "send in the Army", and you know better than I do that, even in (para)military type situations, it's never quite as simple as that!
 
Send in the drones, that'll sort out all those thuggish yoof and wussy ivory tower lefty academic teachers
 
The actual troops to teachers plan is a bit more subtle than what people are being told either. If you have a technical degree a funded pgcse or a funded 4 year degree course.
No deranged para with a knife between teeth suddenly takeing over form 5b :D

TBF, that's only because most Paras are semi-literate at best, including the officers. They're only good for being PE teachers.
 
TBF, that's only because most Paras are semi-literate at best, including the officers. They're only good for being PE teachers.

Tbf most other officers dont consider dealing with an arguement with their fists acceptable behaviour:mad: A formal duel yes.
 
We had a Lt and his oppasite number in a cav sqd attempt to fight a duel one of the pair of fools had got hold of a set of dueling pistols:facepalm:
Many many extras were handed out that day:p
 
Pearson thought he'd have another crack, but he's ended up looking like a complete berk.
The tactics of the Left are so predictable, especially where certain subjects are concerned. You give them a prod; shake them around a little and they stir into life. How dare we criticise their cosy stranglehold on education?

Of course, the fact nobody can dispute my claim that the Left hold a broad monopoly of school and university history teaching speaks volumes.

“You are a Tory stooge,” says one. “Jago’s a professional Tory propagandist,” says another.

Yes, indeed, I work for a public relations firm. Yes, that PR firm is run by a former Fleet Street journalist and Conservative Party communications director. But my article for the Telegraph was written from my first-hand experience, as a recent History and Politics graduate.

Is it really so surprising to these keyboard warriors, Left-wing tweeters and bloggers who condemn benefit curbs, tax cuts and reform of a failing National Curriculum, that a 21-year-old might actually get a job after finishing university? Or worse, that he might have a different outlook on life to their own?

It's a shame they feel it necessary to play the man and not the ball. It's a shame they seem to value only their own right to free speech and not that of others who hold a contrary view. Why not engage in the debate? Alas, it is a classic tactic of the Left.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/j...ised-lefty-academics-so-now-im-a-tory-stooge/

Priceless. :D
 
Nah, that's the Guards regts, where almost every officer has no chin and a double or triple-barrelled surname.

My Dad was a mess corporal in the Guards and has a really funny story about a certain Lord Knob-End glassing his mate Viscount The Honourable Twatfeatures with a pink gin, in an argument over a catamite.
 
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This lad will go far at the Telegraph. He's so eager to please! I mean, his argument and reasoning wouldn't get him a pass at GSCE I wouldn't think, but he is falling over himself to tell them what they want to hear.

A willingness to tell untruths for power overrides ignorance, incompetence and mediocrity in so many cases, see Niall Ferguson
 
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Good spot of probable govey shenanigans from Paul @ TCF....

Not really that surprising, the DfE has been manipulating stats for results in Free Schools in a very similar way to the way in which New Labour juked the stats more globally. I would imagine that we'll see a move towards the latter as we move closer to 2015.

It's interesting that Ofsted has been harassing the less compliant educational authority in Nottingham which isn't great but is certainly much better overall than nearby massively under performing but ultra compliant Peterborough. Fuck the kids, it's all about whether you follow the latest diktat or not.
 
It is gratifying to see quite how comprehensively this lot seem to be able to piss of the experts in fields in which they can only ever be dilettantes. To have the head of the main inspection regime clearly pissed off at your blunderings is pretty impressive - at least on a par with the leathering Osborne took from that senior economist at Davos, and the fairly regular hidings the various branches of the medical profession have dished out to Jeremy Soundslike.

Not to mention the reaction from large parts of the academic historian establishment to Gove's clumsy attempts at turning the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI into some kind of jingoistic flagwaving themepark.

The tragedy is that all of these government ministers seem so short on insight, and so shameless, that they just carry on, oblivious to the chaos and misery that they're causing to those less able to vocally express their outrage.
 
Maybe gove did the 2014 thing knowing full well they arnt going to be in power by 2018 which at least would make sense although niether 2018 or 2045 are good dates for the conservatives:)
 
Teachers at one of Education Secretary Michael Gove’s flagship free schools are staging a series of walkouts from Thursday over what they see as an attempt to introduce “zero-hour” contracts at their school. The action, to be taken at the STEM Academy Tech City in Islington, north London - is the first strike action of its kind at any of the country’s 174 free schools.

Teachers at the school asked to be balloted by their union, the National Union of Teachers, after their employers said there would be “legal consequences” if they failed to sign a new contract before Christmas.

Included in it was a paragraph which stated: “The school reserves the right to temporarily lay you off from work without normal contractual pay or to reduce your normal working hours and reduce your pay proportionately. The school will give you as much notice as it can reasonably give of its need to take such action.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/e...ike-over-new-zero-hour-job-terms-9089009.html

FFS....again.:mad:
 
Guardian running another Gove story...this time involving some faux whinging from the thief Laws about Gove's move to politicise Ofsted. Usual shite from all concerned, and I honestly couldn't be bothered to read to the bottom of the piece....but it did include this pic of Gove..

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