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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Reshuffle: Osborne and Gove baffled at escaping unscathed
CHANCELLOR and education minister “utterly mystified,” to retain their posts says source
Both chancellor George Osborne and minister for education Mick Gove have revealed their surprise at not being shown the door in today’s changes to the cabinet.
According to a Westminster source, Osborne gushed, “Utterly mystified, overjoyed…couldn’t believe it after the Paralympics thing, the double-dip recession, that third runway at Heathrow idea, secret meetings with bankers, limiting child benefits, capping housing benefit, reducing tax for top earners, the pasty tax, selling the public’s shares in Northern Rock at a £400million loss, interference with employment and planning laws plus a load of other stuff that I can’t even remember but I know a lot of people were really pissed off about. It just goes to show that this reshuffle was undertaken by someone who has a very clear idea of exactly how much shit the British public are prepared to put up with. And that’s a fuckload, believe me.”
Gove allegedly expressed his surprise more prosaically, “I thought ‘There’s no way I’ll be staying - plus if I go, I’ll have no idea what I’ll do.’ Bit like now really.”
More to follow.
Both chancellor George Osborne and minister for education Mick Gove have revealed their surprise at not being shown the door in today’s changes to the cabinet.
According to a Westminster source, Osborne gushed, “Utterly mystified, overjoyed…couldn’t believe it after the Paralympics thing, the double-dip recession, that third runway at Heathrow idea, secret meetings with bankers, limiting child benefits, capping housing benefit, reducing tax for top earners, the pasty tax, selling the public’s shares in Northern Rock at a £400million loss, interference with employment and planning laws plus a load of other stuff that I can’t even remember but I know a lot of people were really pissed off about. It just goes to show that this reshuffle was undertaken by someone who has a very clear idea of exactly how much shit the British public are prepared to put up with. And that’s a fuckload, believe me.”
Gove allegedly expressed his surprise more prosaically, “I thought ‘There’s no way I’ll be staying - plus if I go, I’ll have no idea what I’ll do.’ Bit like now really.”
More to follow.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
New ‘Minority Report’ style Ofsted inspections to be introduced
Education watchdog to implement new inspection regime judging schools on basis of things that haven’t happened yet
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ofsted chief Mick Wilshaw said giving schools a whole day’s notice of an Ofsted visit simply allowed too much time to sweep evidence of bad practice under the carpet making it difficult to give a grade of 'unsatisfactory' and recommend that they become academies.
The new system will itself replace the already recently revised reduction of the notice period from 48 to 24 hours. According to Wilshaw it is due to be implemented, “extremely quickly," since neither the government nor Ofsted have any other ideas on the table.
More to follow.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ofsted chief Mick Wilshaw said giving schools a whole day’s notice of an Ofsted visit simply allowed too much time to sweep evidence of bad practice under the carpet making it difficult to give a grade of 'unsatisfactory' and recommend that they become academies.
The new system will itself replace the already recently revised reduction of the notice period from 48 to 24 hours. According to Wilshaw it is due to be implemented, “extremely quickly," since neither the government nor Ofsted have any other ideas on the table.
More to follow.
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