Following Toby Young's jaw-dropping Newsnight performance, remember that if the Governing Bodies of Michael Gove's "free" schools are not being chaired by the Director of Strategy for Serco, then they are being chaired by Young, the Parliamentary Mammary Inspector.
That Director of Strategy, one Jonathan Simons, is about to move on to a cosy, cushy job as Head of Education at Policy Exchange, the trading name of Gove's office. How ever did he get that? Is a registered charity in receipt of the proceeds of crime? Is a body which seeks to influence public policy funded by the defrauding of the public; by charging to tag dead convicts and what have you? Could that possibly be true?
UPDATE 00:25AM: This Simons has confirmed to me on Twitter that Policy Exchange is indeed funded by Serco, but will not be repaying to the Treasury one penny of those ill-gotten gains. The position into which Simons is about to come is therefore untenable. From that position, he will seek to influence public policy. Yet that position will have been bought for him with stolen public money. Such is the Chairman of Governors of Greenwich Free School.
UPDATE 00:25AM: This Simons has confirmed to me on Twitter that Policy Exchange is indeed funded by Serco, but will not be repaying to the Treasury one penny of those ill-gotten gains. The position into which Simons is about to come is therefore untenable. From that position, he will seek to influence public policy. Yet that position will have been bought for him with stolen public money. Such is the Chairman of Governors of Greenwich Free School.
Jonathan Simons is not Serco's Director of Strategy, though. His Twitter bio says that he's Director of Market Development, which isn't the same thing.
ReplyDeleteHe has recently changed it, then. The point still stands.
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