Just how many times does James Purnell's and Andrew Adonis's obviously signed and sealed membership of any future Cameron Cabinet have to be announced before even the most die-hard Labour and Tory loyalists alike realise that something might be ever so slightly amiss? And now Hazel Blears as well.
Michael Gove is touring Fleet Street announcing the Tories' flagship policy of flogging off the whole of a state school sector which educates ninety-three per cent of children, but of which neither they, nor New Labour, nor the media these days, can so much as begin to see the point. Hence the absence of any fuss over this extraordinary assault. (The Golden Age of these things was in the days of selective state schools, the brief interlude between normative mass illiteracy and the ongoing descent back to that position.)
But Gove himself is on course for greater things than what is regarded as the Cabinet middle rank of Education Secretary. Rather, the man Cameron openly wants for that job, and who has very clearly already accepted it, is the current Schools Minister.
Give that a moment to sink in.
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"announcing the Tories' flagship policy of flogging off the whole of a state school sector which educates ninety-three per cent of children"
ReplyDeleteWow. Really? He said that? That would be pretty big news. What did he say, exactly? I've been following this reasonably closely, but I must have missed that bit.
Of course he didn't use those words. But he and Cameron openly want the State to become nothing more than the bill-payer to assorted private institutions.
ReplyDeleteThat way, of course, there can never again be a bipartite or tripartite system, to which they are in any case actively opposed.
And Cameron has arranged an Education Secretary to implement this grand scheme. He is the current Schools Minister.