The Plastic Hippo has turned out one of his best posts yet, and that’s saying something. This is pointed, prescient and precise. I have yet to meet anyone at all in the field of education who thinks that Gove is doing a good job. This government seem hell-bent on bombing the education of the working class right back to the fifties, and are trying everything from fake ‘apprenticeships’ in no-longer extant manufacturing (Youth Opportunities by any other name) to the £9,000 student fees designed to scare the poor from a decent higher education.
I lived through Tatcherism. One thing I’ll say for the old crone is that you knew she hated you and what you stood for. This government haven’t even got the decency to face us down. Not on education, not on welfare, not on cuts. Quite simply, they are a disgrace.
Read this and be angry, very angry indeed.
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 904 other subscribers-
Search the blog:
Top Posts & Pages
Archives
#365daysofbiking Journal
Activism
Blogs & Stuff I like
Cycle stuff
Funny stuff
Local History
Local press
Local sites
Urban Exploration
Blog Stats
- 7,466,733 hits
Recent tracks
Time & Place
Queens of the Stone Age
3 daysnever too late
thenewno2
3 daysThis Year's Girl
Elvis Costello
3 daysGot My Mojo Workin'
Muddy Waters
3 daysTamacun
Rodrigo y Gabriela
3 daysLittle Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
3 daysGood Love (w/ Billy Gibbons)
The Black Keys
3 daysDon’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down
Eric Burdon
3 daysSo Much Trouble In The World
Bob Marley
3 daysCarolina Low
The Decemberists
3 daysRecent Comments
Marauder on 1987: The end of a landmark Elizabeth Thomson on Made of bricks Gary Huskisson on When the lights go out Nichelle Smith on The Red, White and Blue: what… Jane Henry on The long march: 50 years of ja…