Gove gets worse

[Blissx]

Came across this article:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24653574

I am rendered speechless....

Hear hear. And I rate WM too. He has a clear angle politically - but he digs deep, does his research and backs up his assertions.

We should all respond to the BBC News consultation by asking them to put links to sources whenever they are publicly available - they often don't, even for stories based on a blog post or academic paper for example. The only reason I can think of is it would show up how little analysis or investigation has gone into the story. That is one reason specialist blogs are so great I think- you get a rich and varied range of sources to boot.

I don't think the BBC breaks many stories any more. The exception seemed to be the Kings Science Academy story on Newsnight.

The other thing is that so many stories about schools are reported locally but not nationally unless there is some sort of run of similar stories - Pimlico Academy + Al-Madinah + Kings Science Academy - and a politician makes some comment about it. They're rarely joined up though - it's a sort of divide and rule tactic. The root cause of the problem is never properly debated, and instead it turns very personal - 'ooh look, a Muslim/woman who can't manage a school properly!'

Warwick really, really does his job properly. He's worth paying attention to, especially in relation to exam and assessment stories.

You realise one of us is going to have to take a fall for the team and shag the ugly bastard, don't you? Or else he'll stay in post and keep giving the education budget away to his mates Volunteers form an orderly queue around the back of the Garrick Club, if you please.

well since you thought of it and offered

I think I'm going to be sick.

Take a look at his 'sex face' (number 6):

www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/10/25/7-signs-you-might-be-michael-gove/

Before anyone makes the ultimate sacrifice, I don't think a sex scandal will finish off politicians nowadays. Have not plucked up courage to click on that link.

boke [urgh] ....sex scandal with Gove.

We did this, didn't we? There was definitely a thread where a brave MNer prepared to take one for the team, & y'know, try to stop him fucking all of us. As it were.

That link is funny. I think I may have to change my sexual predilections if you are expecting me to do him though. Someone else will have to step up to the mark, as it were.

Laisy, perhaps one of us should say he called us plebs?

Or surely there is someone on MN who can find some proper dirt in a long forgotten file? Expenses scandal? (Oh yes, that actually happened, he did the taxpayer for £7000 and had to pay it back). Taking backhanders from a media magnate? (Well, apparently there are all those lunches with Murdoch we see him photographed at, and apparently he was on his payroll whilst being an MP).

Boffin, I think no-one would believe us.......racism would still bring a politician down I reckon, but far too ugly to mess with.

We'll just have to use force of argument and rational thinking (weeps).

How about, "being caught in the DofE stationery cupboard doing unspeakable things to Pob, shocker" (the puppet I swear was Gove in a past life!)

After pondering the merits of taking one for the team and instigating a sex scandal involving Michael Gove and applying copious amounts of bleach to my brain, I have decided I'd rather shag Warwick Mansell instead. Not helpful, I know. Sorry.

I think there's a queue for Warwick, but I believe he is spoken for, with offspring.

Blissx has the answer, I think. It's ripe for the cover of the Sunday Sport.

Great, sorted, what next? World peace by the end of the day?

Here's the latest from Warwick Mansell:

www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/28/dfe-plans-to-cut-asbestos-group

So, they resort to poisoning the 'enemies of promise' now? Coud we do something along the lines of arsenic in Gove's wallpaper or whatever it was Napoleon died of?

Great saving that. The salaries of two civil servants (presumably to pay for a couple of frothing SPADs in their place).

Have no teachers sued re: asbestosis?

But in Warwick's report he mentions Snarebrook school and it sounds like parent power - backed by the Tory council - may have prevailed. I am so glad I have heard some good news about democracy today...

www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2013/10/snaresbrook-success-for-the-parents-for-the-local-authority/