The Michael Gove File

[stavros]

My Mum, an ex-teacher, normally doesn't profess strong opinion on politics and wouldn't hurt a fly, but has told me on more than one occasion that Gove has a very punchable face.

 

[stavros]

One of the teachers whose classroom i clean admitted she called gove a wanker when talking to her manager.

How did the manager react?

 

[nagapie]

The sad thing is that many heads and governors are enabling him. Now that schools can set their own pay policies, mine is in negotiation and the staff and governors have reached a stalemate I was not at the last meeting but apparently the governor present treated staff with total contempt. We will be meeting soon to vote on further action if they pass it regardless of our concerns.

 

[fogbat]

Surely the only thing needed in the Gove file is a gift token for Ropes R Us, and a map of all the lamp posts in the UK?

 

[Dan U]

He said some interesting stuff about childrens homes recently which is going to piss off a lot of private equity backed businesses, which was quote interesting to hear a Tory politician say, essentially admitting letting the market run free with residential care for children was a mistake.

Literally the only thing of merit I can think of and a bit against the spirit of the thread I know.

 

[nagapie]

He said some interesting stuff about childrens homes recently which is going to piss off a lot of private equity backed businesses, which was quote interesting to hear a Tory politician say, essentially admitting letting the market run free with residential care for children was a mistake.

Literally the only thing of merit I can think of and a bit against the spirit of the thread I know.

Don't worry, I'm sure he'll either retract it or it will surface that he had a hidden agenda in saying it.

 

[RedDragon]

Did Will Self just invite him to step outside on question time.

 

[DotCommunist]

self would crush him, he's way musclier

 

[marty21]

Did Will Self just invite him to step outside on question time.

saw that - Self would have twatted him senseless -

 

[existentialist]

Self would have torn him to pieces verbally.

 

[Sprocket.]

Will could claim self defence. Puts coat on, shuffles to door.
It would have been better if Self had just felled him with a right cross.

 

[butchersapron]

He's a pacifist. The pompous twat. (Will Self that is).

 

[DotCommunist]

Someone should make a Celbrity Deathmatch style program only with MP's, writers and journos.

Eric Pickles vs Salman Rushdie

 

[Sprocket.]

Someone should make a Celbrity Deathmatch style program only with MP's, writers and journos.

Eric Pickles vs Salman Rushdie

John Pilger vs John Selwyn Gummer, both 73.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Kind of relevant to the thread, the expansion of academies and, more broadly, the use of public funds for private entities:

More cash needed for charter school money pit. The bottomless money pit of the charter schools experiment has been exposed, with government documents showing that the initial $19 million to set up five charter schools may not be enough. [...]

“How come it’s so easy for the government’s ideological experiment with charter schools to get extra cash when needed, but public schools have to scrape and scrabble around to find money to pay teacher aides from one term to the next?” said Mr Goulter.Ministry documents released yesterday reported that the funding was enough for four schools and additional cash would be required for a fifth school. NZEI Te Riu Roa national secretary Paul Goulter said it was a disgrace that even more funding would be coming from taxpayers to fund private individuals and organisations. [...]

“How come it’s so easy for the government’s ideological experiment with charter schools to get extra cash when needed, but public schools have to scrape and scrabble around to find money to pay teacher aides from one term to the next?” said Mr Goulter.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1309/S00164/more-cash-needed-for-charter-school-money-pit.htm

 

[brogdale]

I have a simple message for the leaders of the teaching unions: Please, please, please don’t put your ideology before our children’s interests.’

 

[frogwoman]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/02/musli...ection-for-health-and-safety-reasons-4131186/

has this been posted yet?​

 

[Delroy Booth]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/02/musli...ection-for-health-and-safety-reasons-4131186/

has this been posted yet?​

I suspect there's already some schools like that in the independent/private sector, which I suppose free schools are, even though they recieve public money.

And there's a pressure within certain parts of the Labour party to support that type of thing, all girls or all boys islamic free schools, lot of money behind it too. It's a weird mix of the acadamies and privatisation people, the stuff that Gove's continued enthusiastically, and the asian/muslim identity politics wing of Labour that support it. I've seen Labour party people use some ridiculously convoluted logic trying to justify proposals for all girls islamic school in Dewsbury a few years ago, one phrase used was "a safe space for muslim girls" which stuck in my mind, coz you could half-imagine Laurie Penny writing it and yet it's totally consistent with the attitude of very patriachal and controlling elements within the muslim community

 

[frogwoman]

I suspect there's already some schools like that in the independent/private sector, which I suppose free schools are, even though they recieve public money.

And there's a pressure within certain parts of the Labour party to support that type of thing, all girls or all boys islamic free schools, lot of money behind it too. It's a weird mix of the acadamies and privatisation people, the stuff that Gove's continued enthusiastically, and the asian/muslim identity politics wing of Labour that support it. I've seen Labour party people use some ridiculously convoluted logic trying to justify proposals for all girls islamic school in Dewsbury a few years ago, one phrase used was "a safe space for muslim girls" which stuck in my mind, coz you could half-imagine Laurie Penny writing it and yet it's totally consistent with the attitude of very patriachal and controlling elements within the muslim community

It probably won't just be muslims either.

 

[Delroy Booth]

It probably won't just be muslims either.

No definitely not, that'll just depend on which area you live in I suppose.

 

[BlueSquareThing]

I have a simple message for the leaders of the teaching unions: Please, please, please don’t put your ideology before our children’s interests.’

D'you reckon he thought that he might be being a touch ironic there? Putting ideology before children's interests? Hmmm, I wonder who might have been doing that in a position of power.

 

[J Ed]

D'you reckon he thought that he might be being a touch ironic there? Putting ideology before children's interests? Hmmm, I wonder who might have been doing that in a position of power.

You're assuming too much self-awareness

 

[stavros]

He's apparently standing up for the Daily Fail in their right to be cunts to dead folk, which of course has nothing to do with the fact that Mrs Gove writes for the same organ.

 

[eatmorecheese]

http://webofwooders.com/forum/gove.htm

Has this light relief been posted before?

 

[Gingerman]

Gove riveted by Shameron's speech.....

 

[DotCommunist]

is it mandatory to have a massive forehead in the tory party?

 

[Humberto]

Its Churchillian to have a massive forehead and a small mouth. Smaller mouths denote upper class pedigree.

 

[stavros]

is it mandatory to have a massive forehead in the tory party?

Of course; they need the space for the extra brain power which us mere proles cannot even imagine.

 

[SpookyFrank]

is it mandatory to have a massive forehead in the tory party?

It seems to mandatory to have some kind of chromosomal abnormality at any rate.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It seems to mandatory to have some kind of chromosomal abnormality at any rate.

This might account for the forehead issue.