The Michael Gove File

[Betsy]

Michael Gove was just on 5 Live sounding quite chippy. When told by Peter Allen how unpopular he is/was he reminded Peter that at least he was never trapped in a room by militant teachers as David Blunkett was.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think a few were returned to LA if the sponsor fucks up money wise

for the better?
could this only happen if an LA had to step in, or could the staff and parents request or demand it? again, this is ENTIRELY and SINCERELY an academic question.

 

[Pickman's model]

Michael Gove was just on 5 Live sounding quite chippy. When told by Peter Allen how unpopular he is/was he reminded Peter that at least he was never trapped in a room by militant teachers as David Blunkett was.

yeh but you can't expect a blind man to be as nippy on his feet as gove.

 

[gaijingirl]

Well, despite all the negatives I, for one, am in a great mood this afternoon. Lovely end of term gift.

 

[BlueSquareThing]

for the better?
could this only happen if an LA had to step in, or could the staff and parents request or demand it? again, this is ENTIRELY and SINCERELY an academic question.

I doubt it's possible - the whole system is currently geared to moving schools out of LA control and there seems to be no way to move them back again (without the trust going bankrupt or similar).

I doubt Morgan will do anything significant at all, especially not in this regard. It will be more interesting to see what happens with Free Schools perhaps as an indication of how a system which relies on over funding of vanity projects might look like in the future.

 

[Badgers]

So a £30k pay cut for Gove?

 

[Pickman's model]

So a £30k pay cut for Gove?

they should have kept paying him the same but lopped off a quarter of his body.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, despite all the negatives I, for one, am in a great mood this afternoon. Lovely end of term gift.

yeh. let's hope the euphoria lasts all summer long

 

[Badgers]

they should have kept paying him the same but lopped off a quarter of his body.

I have always admired your willingness to forgive.

 

[DotCommunist]

So a £30k pay cut for Gove?

far be it from me to suggest that someone in CW role knows enough bodies buried and has enough clout to wring gratuities out of the rank and file mp...

 

[SpookyFrank]

yeh but you can't expect a blind man to be as nippy on his feet as gove.

 

[Awesome Wells]

"When a Gove comes along, you must whip it!"

 

[stavros]

Last night's Dispatches, on faith schools, was a nice leaving note.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[Flanflinger]

Hope that was a massive dog turd he slipped on.

 

[nino_savatte]

Apparently Gove is going to be the 'face' of the Conservative Party in the run-up to the election. He's the most hated politician in Britain. That'll go well.

 

[elbows]

Apparently Gove is going to be the 'face' of the Conservative Party in the run-up to the election. He's the most hated politician in Britain. That'll go well.

From this article which is also amusing to me in several other regards:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/16/backbenchers-support-michael-gove-sarah-vine-protest

The Gove camp were so angered by overnight reports in the Guardian, Daily Mail and Times that Tory campaign director Lynton Crosby had warned No 10 that he was toxic in polls, that Vine endorsed a Daily Mail article which said the reshuffle amounted to a "small earthquake in Whitehall".

 

[brogdale]

Sorry if this has been put up before, but if not, it's well worth giving up 14 minutes of your time to witness Gove attempting to persuade us that he's not been sacked.

http://bcove.me/idnreyv9

 

[BlueSquareThing]

From the same article, a quote from Hastings' article in the Fail:

In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England. Here was the undisputed Tory hero of the past four years – a man with a mission, a crusader, an obsessive, who has shown the courage to hurl himself into the task of salvaging Britain's ruined schools system in a fashion no other holder of his office in modern times has attempted."

Salvaged? Ah, that's the polite way of saying "asset stripped" is it? Fuckwit.

 

[DotCommunist]

its the standard thing, they talk down and outright lie about the state of the public services in order to appoint some new-broom dickhead who is their to facilitate the sell off, neoliberal style.

 

[DotCommunist]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/17/gove-gets-stuck-in-toilet-on-first-day-of-new-job-4801408/

Gove gets stuck in the bog LOL

shame nobody was there to flush his head down it

 

[teqniq]

I'm sure he felt right at home with all the other turds.

 

[superfly101]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/17/gove-gets-stuck-in-toilet-on-first-day-of-new-job-4801408/

Gove gets stuck in the bog LOL

shame nobody was there to flush his head down it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28341980?ocid=socialflow_twitter

Think Hague got a good quip in to Angela Eagle;

William Hague: Gove carrying out duties very assiduously

 

[stavros]

The Blob beats the Pob.

 

[brogdale]

The Blob beats the Pob.

Not really; it was Pob himself who did for Pop. He legislated for schools to be free from the 'fetters' of the blob, to do as they see fit...and some of them did. That's what beat Pob.

 

[stavros]

True, and I suppose they have to deal with another waste of oxygen now, who's yet to fully show her full array of cuntishness.

 

[BlueSquareThing]

True, and I suppose they have to deal with another waste of oxygen now, who's yet to fully show her full array of cuntishness.

I don't believe she's said a word yet has she?

Something about her wanting to listen more was released but I would be fairly certain that came straight from Crosby rather than being her idea.

 

[brogdale]

In the "PM" interview, with Eddie Mair, Gove just refused to commit to resign if another vermin MP deserted to the 'kippers. Well worth a listen; the oily fucker was really paddling fast under the water.

Lol

 

[stavros]

That dog looks like it's experiencing all kinds of grief.

 

[teqniq]

Why me?