Toby Young is a c0nt

[William of Walworth]

Here's Hammersmith and Fulham Council trumpeting the arrival of WLFS.
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Free_school_gets_the_ok.asp

That was before the Tories were kicked out of H & F in the locals recently ( ) .... I don't know much about local London politics nowadays, and I wouldn't expect much if at all from Labour, but will it make any difference at all do you think?

 

[nino_savatte]

That was before the Tories were kicked out of H & F in the locals recently ( ) .... I don't know much about local London politics nowadays, and I wouldn't expect much if at all from Labour, but will it make any difference at all do you think?

I'm not a massive fan of Labour, but it's a relief that the most ideological Tory council in London has been sunk. I think the local Labour Party has a huge legal challenge on its hands. It needs to reverse the Earl's Court development for starters. I don't expect Labour to adopt socialist policies here in H&F. I think that's a little like asking for the moon (to use that appalling cliché).

 

[nino_savatte]

Tobes tells us

Thatcher's descendants are in danger of losing the culture war

Oh really? What makes you say that?

The 'Trojan Horse' plot has revealed the Left's complete misunderstanding about true origins of liberty

Sounds like bullshit to me, but do continue...

The Centre for Policy Studies, the think tank founded by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher, has played an important part over the past four decades in making the case for economic liberalism. On Wednesday, at their 40th anniversary conference, I’m on a panel with John Howard, the former Australian prime minister. Our discussion: has the other side won, or can popular capitalism fight back? Certainly, with so many forces ranged against classical liberalism – the BBC, the Civil Service, the trade unions, the voluntary sector, the Blob – it sometimes feels as if the Left’s long march through the institutions is complete. Our side won the economic argument in the Eighties, a victory complemented by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but we’re in danger of losing the culture war.

This was brought home to me last week by the reaction to the news that six schools in Birmingham had been taken over by Muslim extremists. I naively expected this story to lead to an urgent national debate about the threat posed to our way of life by Islamic fundamentalism. Surely we all now recognise that this toxic combination of anti-Western ideology and religious fanaticism has replaced communism as the greatest danger to freedom and democracy?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...-are-in-danger-of-losing-the-culture-war.html

Paranoia and piss-poor analysis. Just like Tobes.

On another blog, he's attracted a commenter who calls himself "Julius Evola". Subtle, eh?

 

[Nylock]

Jesus, that guy is a fucking idiot

 

[Dogsauce]

It's not a conspiracy that 'so many forces' are ranged against Tobes and his ideology, it might actually be because he's wrong and a cunt.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's not a conspiracy that 'so many forces' are ranged against Tobes and his ideology, it might actually be because he's wrong and a cunt.

Unfortunately for us mere mortals, Young has that ruling class arrogance that simply doesn't allow him to perceive or believe that he could be wrong - it simply doesn't register!

 

[Lo Siento.]

This was brought home to me last week by the reaction to the news that six schools in Birmingham had been taken over by Muslim extremists. I naively expected this story to lead to an urgent national debate about the threat posed to our way of life by Islamic fundamentalism. Surely we all now recognise that this toxic combination of anti-Western ideology and religious fanaticism has replaced communism as the greatest danger to freedom and democracy?

Heaven forfend it lead to a discussion of why we shouldn't turn over schools to any old idiot who decides they fancy running one.

 

[nino_savatte]

Here's Tobes announcing the "Thatcher conference on liberty".

This promises to be a landmark event, with a roster of speakers that includes Michael Gove, V.S. Naipaul, John Howard, Niall Ferguson and Fraser Nelson, as well as the Telegraph's Benedict Brogan, Charles Moore and Daniel Hannan. You can find out more about the conference here and follow it live on the web here.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...promises-to-be-a-landmark-conservative-event/

"A landmark event"? FFS The roster of speakers is really a list of the UK's foremost headbangers.

It's attracted loads of fash, like this one.

Julius Evola • 2 hours ago
I am in complete agreement, though I think if you drill back further, what motivates globalism/internationalism ultimately is an axiom that says "equality is morally good, per se".

White European people will survive, with a vengeance. In many parts of Europe, people have started to fight back against immigrant criminality. They fear White Europeans, as they should.

 

[Nylock]

Well tobes, if you spend your life in the ideological toilet bowl, expect to share your space with the odd turd from time to time...

 

[Dogsauce]

"...with a roster of speakers that includes Michael Gove, V.S. Naipaul, John Howard, Niall Ferguson and Fraser Nelson, as well as the Telegraph's Benedict Brogan, Charles Moore and Daniel Hannan. "

Where's a nice Legionella outbreak when you want one?

 

[DotCommunist]

that cunt nial

 

[nino_savatte]

Poor wee Tobes is beside himself with worry now that his main man has left the DfE.

As readers of this blog will know, I have always been a staunch Gove loyalist and the hardest thing to bear today will be the crowing of Gove's enemies. His critics within the educational establishment will feel as if they've been vindicated. It certainly wouldn't be the first time the Blob has defeated an opponent. As the former Education Minister George Walden wrote in the Telegraph: “Reforming education, a friend sighed on my appointment, was like trying to disperse a fog with a hand grenade: after the flash and the explosion, the fog creeps back. So it proved under Thatcher, and so it has been under Blair and Brown.”

Let's hope the fog doesn't creep back this time and that Gove's successor, Nicky Morgan, has the vision to see his reforms through. In the meantime, let's remind ourselves of what he's achieved in just four years as Education Secretary:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...ffle-has-michael-gove-been-eaten-by-the-blob/

What a deluded prick.

 

[Balbi]

Waaaaah

 

[Dogsauce]

When Cameron rings for a taxi next year Tobes is going to be inconsolable. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Awesome Wells]

When Cameron rings for a taxi next year Tobes is going to be inconsolable. I'm looking forward to it.

I admire your optimism.

 

[BlueSquareThing]

When Cameron rings for a taxi next year Tobes is going to be inconsolable. I'm looking forward to it.

Nah, he's just worried that his little school might not get the "support" (i.e. fucking shed loads of extra money per pupil) that it needs.

 

[nino_savatte]

The latest from Zelo Street on the West London Free School.

My latest information confirms that former head Sam Naismith was caused to resign after it was discovered that he was running a consultancy in the school’s time and on its premises. Two other staff members were involved, and both have either left, or are in the process of leaving. Tobes no doubt has his form of words at the ready, but, in effect, all three were given the sack.

Several recent departures from the teaching staff have cited a worrying variety of reasons for moving on: that the leadership team is not up to the job, discipline has deteriorated, with enforcement of standards and sanctions thought inconsistent and even contradictory, teachers feel overworked, not all the staff are considered to be pulling their weight, and that all of this is getting through to the pupils.
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/wlfs-new-head-ignores-toby-young.html

It gets better and better.

 

[Dogsauce]

I don't think we'll hang Tobes come the revolution.

Somewhere in some shit provincial city there will be a run-down zoo that still has an old-school concrete bear pit formerly used for polar bears. Tobes will be quite a spectacle repeatedly walking back and forth muttering to himself about how it all went wrong, living off the rotten food people ricochet off his glowing pate for sport.

 

[nino_savatte]

Zelo Street reports that Tobes has been removed as governor of his own school.

So what has happened to Toby Young? He has been uncharacteristically silent of late, especially about the WLFS. Is he still CEO? Has he stepped down, or been prevailed upon so to do? Will that £9 million plus office block be converted to classrooms in time for the new academic year? What’s happening at Palingswick House? So many questions, but I suspect there will be answers soon.
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/toby-young-kicked-off-his-own-board-of.html?m=1

 

[MAD-T-REX]

The inevitable spin: 'this just proves how free these schools are.'

 

[starfish2000]

Why isn't he opening a free school in Slough? I just see all these places as an excuse for the elite to practise their own subtle forms of racism, its like all these cunts in the fashion world moving to rural Somerset because god forbid they might have to see a black man who isn't a billionaire rapper

 

[nino_savatte]

No mention of the boardroom coup and it's all smiles with the new headteacher. I wonder if the new head knows what he's letting himself in for?

Toby Young, who set up the school, admitted today that its focus on extra-curricular activities had been “too ambitious" http://www.standard.co.uk/news/educ...hool-axes-trips-and-pupils-clubs-9671273.html

Translated: he hasn't got a clue about education.

 

[nino_savatte]

More semantic games from the self-styled 'toadmeister'.

Last night there was a gleeful rubbing of hands at the Zelo Street blog when it announced that journalist Toby Young had been quietly removed from the board of governors at the West London Free School earlier in the year. First it was Michael Gove, dismissed as Education Secretary and moved to Chief Whip — has Young now also fallen?

He says it is not quite as it seems. “When our trust had just the West London Free School, the directors of the trust were called governors,” Young explains this morning. The West London Free School Trust has now opened two more schools and installed governors in each, overseen by the trust’s board of directors.

“Thereafter,” adds Young, “members of the local governing bodies were called ‘governors’ and members of the board of directors of the trust were called ‘directors’. My status hasn’t changed — I’m still a director.”

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ill-is-directing-his-free-school-9668887.html

C0nt.

 

[eatmorecheese]

More semantic games from the self-styled 'toadmeister'.


C0nt.

What the hell, he still gets paid. Smug, smarmy c0nt

 

[nino_savatte]

What the hell, he still gets paid. Smug, smarmy c0nt

Evidently, he doesn't get paid enough for his blogs with the Torygraph or his articles for the Dictator... I mean Spectator.

 

[nino_savatte]

Tobes speaks on the subject of monogamy or marriage or something. Anyway, he cites Charles Murray. Remember him?

I intend to cite the work of the American sociologist Charles Murray, who makes the link between family breakdown and social deprivation. In Coming Apart, his most recent book, he points out that in 2010 only 48 per cent of white working-class adults were married, compared with 83 per cent of the educated elite. http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/sta...if-i-cant-feel-superior-to-my-single-friends/

Sociologist Charles Murray? That's not what I'd heard. Isn't he some kind of political scientist? Well, sort of, he wrote a book with Richard Herrnstein that asserts there are differences in IQ between the 'races'. Here's one they made earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

I like the way Tobes racialises marriage... or monogamy... or something.

After all, children born out of wedlock fare worse according to every measure. They’re more likely to drop out of school, more likely to become drug addicts, more likely to go to prison, etc. The same is true of the white working class in Britain. In 2010, less than 50 per cent were married, compared to over 80 per cent in the 1960s, with a similarly catastrophic impact on the life chances of their children.

'Born out of wedlock". Gee, Tobes, you're so old fashioned... and you're a c0nt.

 

[nino_savatte]

Tobes says that TUC General Secretary, Frances O'Grady, should "vote for the Tories"... and this cunt runs a school?

Frances O'Grady, the leader of the TUC, is right to be concerned that Britain is "becoming like Downton Abbey", something she flagged up in her speech to the TUC's annual congress this morning. That was certainly beginning to happen under the last government. But, thankfully, the Conservative-led coalition has done quite a lot to put that right.

There's no question that under Labour the rich got richer, partly because Labour was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich", to quote Peter Mandelson. The UK's Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, increased from 0.33 in 1996-97 to 0.36 in 2008-09. But is O'Grady right to claim "the gap has got worse" in the past four years?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...e-leader-of-the-tuc-should-vote-conservative/

I was torn between using the words 'bullshit' and 'dissembling', so I'll use both: dissembling bullshit.

 

[Nylock]

Tobes says that TUC General Secretary, Frances O'Grady, should "vote for the Tories"... and this cunt runs a school?


I was torn between using the words 'bullshit' and 'dissembling', so I'll use both: dissembling bullshit.

A more economical letter count would be: "Utter Cunt".

 

[Gingerman]

http://www.delingpoleandcompany.com/
Tobes and Delingpole....together.....in a pub.....with mutual asskissing no doubt,I bet the pub's cunt detector exploded.....

 

[Awesome Wells]

http://www.delingpoleandcompany.com/
Tobes and Delingpole....together.....in a pub.....with mutual asskissing no doubt,I bet the pub's cunt detector exploded.....

That's a real web page? Not a spoof?

"are there any lefties here? No? Good! Throw another badger in the woodburning stove and fire up the fracking well Tobes!"