But why not? Why is Michael Gove still in his job? How many schools has he managed to find to implement the only specific policy, other than those on which they were in full agreement with the other two parties, on which his lot contested the General Election? All of thirty-two, that is how many.
He is a failed and discredited Secretary of State, whom any Prime Minister worthy of the name would have sacked by now. Or, rather, would never have appointed in the first place. But Gove is not the last. Indeed, he already isn't. A government steeped in the public sector and its unions never managed any of this (thank heavens, but that is not the present point), so this bunch of dilettantes hasn't a hope in hell. In which case, what are they for? Why are they there? Why?
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Sorry I'm confused. You said before the election (and indeed at the bottom of this post) that it will never happen. But the first past of your post is that, er, it has happened, albeit fewer numbers than Gove had promised.
ReplyDeleteIt would have looked less silly if there had been none. As, therefore, would he.
ReplyDeleteThis was the only reason that people like Fraser Nelson could think of to vote for Cameron. In other words, there was no reason to vote for Cameron. None.
Er, this doesn't make any sense. You said there wouldn't be any, in the *very same paragraph* that you said that there were some
ReplyDeleteit's ok, we all get predictions wrong sometimes
None of them actually exists yet. But yes, I suppose they will. All 32 of them. It would have been better for Gove if there had been none. That would have looked, and would have been, less daft.
ReplyDeleteOh, and then there is the matter of how long they stay that way, at least without central government coercion. Watch that space.
The failure of this policy is the failure, not only of its implementer, Michael Gove, but also of its originator, David Miliband.