Wednesday 26 September 2007

Guarding The Guard-Dogs

Ed Balls will today announce a new committee or something to check up on whether the Examination Boards are maintaining standards. Who will be on this committee, how will they be chosen, by whom, and on what criteria? Promotion out of trouble and promotion to the level of one's incompetence do rather spring to mind.

Balls and his wife and Cabinet colleague, Yvette Cooper, have of course been exposed as the moral equivalents of Housing Benefit fraudsters, differing only in having stolen vastly more of the taxpayer's money. But that will have to wait for another time, when someone has reminded me what Cooper's Portfolio is. Her conduct is clearly regarded as fully compatible with it.

As is that of her husband, the whole scam having been devised and executed specifically in order to fiddle admissions to the best state schools, identified as such by their exam results.

2 comments:

  1. Talk about needing to skip a generation. This pair, the Milibands, Lammy, that preposterous Purnell person. Or the so-called alternatives - Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Vaizey and the Orange Book Liberals.

    Who'd have thought it, a whole generation and not one of them capable of being PM. When's it going to be you, David? The sooner, the better.

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  2. I'm with you on this one, Anonymous. An entire generation of British politicians and there literally is not one of them capable of being Prime Minister. Unless anyone can answer that, then at the very least I can't see how David could possibly be any worse.

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