The Michael Gove File

[SpookyFrank]

Interestingly the beeb has this as 'funds re-directed' which is subtly different from saying 'out and out jacked by a pob faced cunt'

You would think that the education secretary is within his rights to spend his department's budget however he sees fit.

Of course it's completely insane that one person should have so much clout, particularly when that one person is an abject cretin, but that's how we run things in this country.

 

[brogdale]

Quite possibly. But 400 million? If this wasn't the U.K. in 2014 where corruption and dodgy deals have become so commonplace and scum like G4s can quietly be rehabilitated this would perhaps be resignation time.

Dream on.
This little spectacle has been engineered to produce one thing and one thing only. The opening words of the BBC report demonstrate the superficial 'success' of this media manipulation....

A row has broken out in the coalition...

 

[teqniq]

Dream on.

That is precisely what I am not doing.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I was delighted to hear him being referred to as a zealot on radio 4 this morning

I won't be satisfied until I hear James Naughtie refer to Gove as a "pob-faced cunt", frankly.

 

[Betsy]

Michael Gove is answering an urgent question in The Commons.

Tristram Hunt has asked education secretary to explain diversion of funds away from areas of high and severe need

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/12/free-schools-row-michael-gove-question-commons

 

[CNT36]

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27377973

But Education Secretary Michael Gove said his rival had "more contorted positions on free schools than some Indian sex manuals I could name".

Enough to make me piss vomit.

 

[Orang Utan]

Some? I can only think of one

 

[ViolentPanda]

Some? I can only think of one

Gove probably has a broad collection of sex manuals, Indian or otherwise, the Pob-faced cunt.

 

[DotCommunist]

Some? I can only think of one

maybe he has the kama sutra in hardback, paperback, two different translations, and the pop-up version

 

[Nylock]

With foreword written by him ofc..

 

[Awesome Wells]

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27377973



Enough to make me piss vomit.

What a horrible comment from Gove

 

[ddraig]

 

[DotCommunist]

that could also double as a Toby pincushion

 

[Dr Jon]

Brilliant

 

[Awesome Wells]

Fuck! It's Minecraft meets Gove!

 

[brogdale]

Sarah Vine whinging about having such a repugnant husband....

Michael Gove's children have dealt with so much hatred directed towards their father in the playground that their mother considered moving them to Italy, it has been reported.

The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.

...and, hands up, who's been sending emails? Come on...you're only wasting your own time...I was going to be here marking anyway...

Vine also revealed she had received emails from "vicious and aggressive socialists" opposed to her husband's radical reforms.

 

[Balbi]

Gove's ditched Of Mice & Men, The Crucible and To Kill A Mockingbird from the curriculum in favour of 19th Century British books.

I wrote this. I'm angry.

http://shinbonestar.org/2014/05/25/mr-wormwood-michael-gove/

 

[tommers]

"vicious and aggressive socialists"

 

[Rebelda]

Gove's ditched Of Mice & Men, The Crucible and To Kill A Mockingbird from the curriculum in favour of 19th Century British books.

I wrote this. I'm angry.

http://shinbonestar.org/2014/05/25/mr-wormwood-michael-gove/

I have been raging about this on Facebook all day May I share your blog post?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Fucking prick's banned Arthur Miller too, the only playwright I ever really got on with, the cunt.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Gove's ditched Of Mice & Men, The Crucible and To Kill A Mockingbird from the curriculum in favour of 19th Century British books.

I wrote this. I'm angry.

http://shinbonestar.org/2014/05/25/mr-wormwood-michael-gove/

Perfect, hope you don't mind me sharing it?

 

[Balbi]

Not a problem, share away. I'm a bit worried I'll qualify for the commentariat thread soon

 

[Betsy]

http://shinbonestar.org/2014/05/25/mr-wormwood-michael-gove/

"This is not as a result of considered research, this is entirely based on the personal opinion of the Secretary of State for Education"

And as such should be challenged!.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Gove's ditched Of Mice & Men, The Crucible and To Kill A Mockingbird from the curriculum in favour of 19th Century British books.

I wrote this. I'm angry.

http://shinbonestar.org/2014/05/25/mr-wormwood-michael-gove/

Although your argument would be stronger if you hadn't adduced the meretricious Dahl.

 

[Awesome Wells]

What are the books he's using as replacements?

 

[eatmorecheese]

Henty and Buchan?

 

[_angel_]

Are there any other subjects he's considering "changing", like taking algebra out of maths?

 

[spanglechick]

To be clear, he hasn't named any books or writers.


He's changed the categories. There must now be a pre 20th century novel from anywhere, but the 20th century writing must be British.

So, that means exam boards have had to cut these books, but Gove himself gets to keep his hands clean.

 

[Balbi]

To be clear, he hasn't named any books or writers.


He's changed the categories. There must now be a pre 20th century novel from anywhere, but the 20th century writing must be British.

So, that means exam boards have had to cut these books, but Gove himself gets to keep his hands clean.

And no translations - so, as someone pointed out, no Bible

 

[Balbi]

Although your argument would be stronger if you hadn't adduced the meretricious Dahl.

That's the little sting that's made it go viral

*checks privilege*