Michael Gove

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

Poor chap can take some solace.
His political credibility may be dented, but at least he still has his matinee idol looks.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2009/11/m ... -at-birth/

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:52 am

Bones McCoy wrote:

Poor chap can take some solace.
His political credibility may be dented, but at least he still has his matinee idol looks.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2009/11/m ... -at-birth/

Love it. Perhaps we should start a Gove Gallery?

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

I fear a Gove gallery would be a massive duplication of resources.
And besides, think of the children!

There are a few others pictures at the link in my previous article.
Google unleashes a chamber of horrors.

ACG · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:40 am

i liked the now show's comparason...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:39 pm

Local difficulty for Gove:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11186771

Did he actually say he was going to visit all the areas with cancelled buildings? What a surprise he hasn't.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:13 pm

Yes, he actually made a specific promise to Sandwell. And then bottled it.

There's been another one today as well.

I don't think he'll last - he certainly won't survive the first reshuffle (which may be when Hague goes).

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:22 pm

I was thinking he was unsackable because his policy is a right-wing totem. But incompetence might do for him, just as it did for the equally militant John Patten.

I'm not in the least surprised he bottled it, but what on earth was he doing promising to go to all the places in the first place? Could it be that writing shit in a newspaper isn't good preparation for being a cabinet minister?

16 free schools might open in 2011. Seems like that "interest" was overstated.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:53 pm

Is it just me, or is there some knife-sharpening going on at D.M. Towers?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -year.html

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:03 pm

Think you're right. They're seeing him as a liability.

Ed Balls has gone up in my estimation for at least doing some shadowing while he competes for the leadership, unlike some of the others.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:55 pm

Private eye was nice about Gove "looking again" at the building for schools programme. Anyone know what their beef with the programme is?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:44 pm

the Other Taxpayers Alliance are on Gove's case:

http://www.taxpayersalliance.org/news/d ... -after-all

Rumours of the recession must be exaggerated. Politically correct rubbish is still rolling in it:

Quote:

The news that only 16 “free schools” are set to open next year (Report, 6 September) should again focus attention on the New Schools Network, the campaign group hired by Michael Gove to promote the new schools and assist with applications.

NSN, run by a former adviser to Gove, is being paid £500,000 for this work – equivalent to a taxpayer subsidy of £31,250 per successful application.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:59 pm

We all knew the academy programme was potentially disastrous, and this demonstrates precisely why:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 ... my-schools

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:45 pm

I'm amazed the Tories haven't stopped them doing this.

There's not that much power in running a couple of schools. Deplorable, of course, but it isn't worth Murdoch doing it.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:42 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11458137

Some sensible stuff here about anonymity until charge, which the NASUWT agree with. I'd be very surprised though if teachers weren't allowed to break up fights at the moment.

and

Quote:

he wants voluntary groups and city academies to take over pupil referral units for excluded children from local authority control.

"It is striking that there are people who want to play a greater role in this market," he said.

There are people who want to take over all sorts of things. Why are they going to be any better than the LEA?

Here's The Guardian interview, with at least one WTF moment:

Quote:

Rules constraining teachers from comforting a crying child added to a culture that deterred male teachers working in primary schools, Gove said.

Men didn't want to be primary school teachers because they couldn't cuddle crying children?

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:00 pm

I thought men were underrepresented in primary education because of the nudge-wink culture and the assumptions that if you wanted to work with small children, you were either a perv or a pooftah.

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