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With Theresa May’s long term prospects in the job not looking very good there’s a lot of focus in the betting markets on who will succeed her as Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Currently the joint favourites are the ex-Mayor and former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson and the current environment secretary, Michael Gove.
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That said he was being advised by Dom Cummings at Education and those who deal with Cummings think he’s a [moderated] and think he’s HMV.
The No Outsiders programme at five Birmingham schools stopped when parents said it was age-inappropriate and incompatible with Islam.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the former head of Ofsted, said people had to accept they were "living in this country with the values that this country holds".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47692617
i.e. "effective" ...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the rocket that hit the house in Mishmeret was launched from Rafah in southern Gaza, about 120km (75 miles) away.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47689684
Has somebody been rearming Hamas?
I hope members across the house realise that it has significantly detrimental constitutional implications and will vote it down so that we can continue with an orderly, iterative process of reaching consensus across the house rather than a kind of X Factor."
Meanwhile, some Labour MP's still think MV3 is about to go through. Collective delusion is still the order of the day.
He also loves the drama and can’t help but plot.
But, he achieved interesting, considered and helpful change at Education, Justice and Environment and also was behind Brexit too.
You can’t deny he’s a haymaker.
Out of the sorry shower that is the Cabinet - or the even worse cavalcade of wit & beauty (sic) on the back benches, Gove strikes me as the least worst option.
Just get the deal over the line first.
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110182267186569218
I was expecting more taking up of the Article 50 solution by now - but I guess the first penguin to jump in the water is the one that gets eaten by the seal.
Many of the issues we face now are as a result of his short term thinking and policymaking via headlines in the Telegraph. Very little was thought through, and we now have a recruitment disaster due to the fracturing and over complication of Initial Teacher Training routes by Gove.
The obsession with constant qualification reform is a feature of all Education Ministers, but his attempt at a concurrent reform of GCSE and A Level made a lot of pointless work for people.
On another note, the notion that teachers are all a load of raging marxists may be a favourite of the Daily Mail, but is not borne out by my experience in reality. I've known as many Tory teachers as I have Labour voters. I used to be a very woolly liberal on social policy, until I worked in safeguarding, and saw the behaviour of some adults (despite what I thought, I'd clearly led a very sheltered life until then). I also did some work with Halfon when he was Skills Minister, and was impressed by him.
Deputy PM renews pledge to change Europe as 24 years of leftwing rule ends in region"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/25/far-right-italian-deputy-matteo-salvini-takes-basilicata-in-south
Gove's return to a focus on standards, exams and "traditional" core subjects was welcome in many homes across the country.
That a tory wasn't welcomed by the payroll vote during a period of austerity, whilst trying to reform the system is hardly the headline of the century.
Teachers hated the switch from being assessed on "value add" rather than "level of attainment".
As a parent , our primary school had rested on it's fat laurels for too long and got a mighty shock when OFSTED came a calling post Gove - the Head Teacher stood down and we got a far better replacement.
Most teachers I have ever worked with were motivated by this fact. A decent HT will identify anyone timeserving and move them on. One of the things Gove got right was fast tracking capability procedures.
Everything is about focusing on those kids from poorer backgrounds. Teachers are accountable for kids that dont do as good as their data says they should.
I was under the misapprehension that they were something to do with education.
It's a wonder anyone wants it as a vocation isn't it.
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110184990359371776
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110185529058971648
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110186065686614017
Parents pay for the service via taxation.
He never got a grip of OFSTED, it is still a massive bureaucratic nightmare, which eats money, and tells you that schools with a largely middle class intake do well and schools in deprived areas do less well.
Data is an ongoing issue - a uniform approach was never decided upon, and OFSTED have a constantly evolving framework (coupled with some inspection teams which don't follow their own guidance).
Er, aren't schools for the benefit of children, not parents or teachers?
I've generally been very impressed by the teachers I have met at my children's schools. They work hard for not a huge amount of money and seem genuinely committed to helping kids do well. I am probably more of a left wing extremist than any of them.
I expect the trouble was that Cummings insulted anyone slower or more uncertain than him, Gove was polite but disingenuous at times and neither good at listening to feedback, judging it to be just resistance to their reforms (sometimes but not always).
Mind you, last time I was doing this was with the tory anti-Corbyn video of GE 2017, and look how that turned out.
I'm not sure what the rest of the taxpaying public would have thought about that though.
What happened during Ed Balls' reign?
I'll confess that I'm not on Hunt at the longest odds I could be either as I mentally dismissed him with the fact he was a Tory health Sec. He too has a real chance now.
Seems surprising that there has been very little media coverage of the trial.
I've no children but my taxes go towards education as much as yours. I don't mind that though, because I want to live in a society of reasonably well-educated people not one full of ignorant stooges.
If your posts are any reflection, thank heavens your children are being educated, not just relying on your 'wisdom'.
What I think is clear is that 9 years of very tight public spending, if not actual austerity in most cases, with cuts in real wages and benefits for those in the public sector have left a long tail legacy of dislike/hatred for the Tories which they are going to find genuinely difficult to overcome. My own guess is that the extent of that damage has been hidden by the complete ineptitude of Corbyn and that Labour under a credible, electable leader may well be set for a Blair style annihilation of the Conservatives who have never managed to get a solid majority despite their success with the economy as a whole.
If this happens people will inevitably blame Brexit but I think the causes are much deeper. I hope sending Corbyn a get well soon card is on May's to do list. He is their only hope.
From the judge's summing up in Jeffrey Archer's libel claim (the claim itself, *not* the later prosecution):
"Remember Mary Archer in the witness-box. Your vision of her probably will never disappear. Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she have, without the strain of this trial, radiance? How would she appeal? Has she had a happy married life? Has she been able to enjoy, rather than endure, her husband Jeffrey?"
Don't forget the references to "cold, joyless, rubber-insulated intercourse."
As with the summing up in the Thorpe case, it's often hard to draw the line between satire and the real thing,
I hope you crystallized plenty.
Not sure I concur. It assumes the ERG think the Deal is just about acceptable provided May is gone. But they know she'll be gone by he end of the year which still leaves pleanty of time for their chosen candidate to sort out the actual long-term deal with the EU.
Am I missing something?
True green still due to Fred Done's generous terms at Totesport .
I guess it depends to some extent whether TMay manages her own demise or is hustled out of the back door/jeered out of the Commons on April 8th.
If it's the latter, I could see Lidington being put forward to enact something in a hurry which 75 per cent of the Tories and 40 per cent of the others could live with, on the promise he'd go for a GE soon after.
If TMay announces a date and survives through the exit, the Tories can have a proper leadership contest first.
Even for you.
Pity May has only the least important part - the Euroscepticism.
Just in case..
Whether his reforms were good or bad is almost beside the point.
Davis don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more
The Conservatives have never looked totally secure in the last ten years, and i can feel the country moving Left in my gut, which the fundamentals in the underlying data suggest as well.
It is certainly not a career I would choose for an easy life nor great riches. Also of course I don't have the temperament. I would probably have throttled half a dozen of the little darlings before the first week was out
How did you play it?