[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[The Clamp]

Everyone else has sat on their **** eh?

Cheers Gill

She has come out of this looking worse than Sunak. Which is bloody hard to do!

Saw her on telly this morning claiming to not know anything about a £32m refurb at her office.

“Uhm yes, we’ll, uhm I have been working on a different floor than normal so I suppose yes, uhm there could be a refurb going on, I suppose yes it might have needed, uhm buildings do uhm yes, that makes sense because I’ve been on different floor, you see. Yes uhm”

****.

 

[A1X]

"Why aren't you thanking me for doing a good job?" asks Education Secretary at the same time as schools are having to be closed because they're not safe for children

 

[Gwylan]

Watching Keegan, I keep getting Nicola Murray flashbacks - what an omnishambles

Time to wheel out Blinky Ben

 

[nicko31]

Watching Keegan, I keep getting Nicola Murray flashbacks - what an omnishambles

Time to wheel out Blinky Ben

Oh dear...

Gillian Keegan apologises for swearing over school concrete crisis

The minister apologises but says she was "frustrated" by a reporter's questions on the concrete crisis.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[A1X]

 

[JBizzle]

"Why aren't you thanking me for doing a good job?" asks Education Secretary at the same time as schools are having to be closed because they're not safe for children

It's almost like they've scraped through the bottom of the rotten barrel and are scratching at the dirt underneath now

 

[The Clamp]

Oh, they haven’t got the questionnaires back yet. That’s why they have made such slow progress. Those bloody questionnaires.
Presumably this is an attempt to shrug some of the blame onto headmasters? Building surveyors?

And apparently it’s been “going on since 1994”.
So that’s two Tory governments that have failed to act then?

This lady is quite a piece of work.

Gillian Keegan says nothing more important than pupil and staff safety after apology for outburst over concrete crisis – as it happened

Education secretary gives statement to Commons on Raac after being caught on camera swearing about lack of credit for her work

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Clamp]

It seems she has a history of bullshitting….

Keegan claims teachers are among 'top 10% of earners'

Education secretary also incorrectly claims teacher pay is 'a lot higher' than average

schoolsweek.co.uk

“The education secretary has claimed teachers are “probably in the top 10 per cent of earners in some parts of the country”, and over-stated the average head’s salary by over £20,000.

Speaking to LBC this morning, Gillian Keegan also claimed teachers’ salaries were “a lot higher than the average salaries across the country”.

But that doesn’t fit with salary data published by the Department for Education. The latest school workforce data shows the average classroom teacher earned £39,000 in 2020-21”.

 

[The Clamp]

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[Guinness Boy]

 

[Bodian]

From the Guardian comments page.

 

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[raymondo]

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She should be applying then

 

[Stato]

From the Guardian comments page.

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In 'Building Schools for the Future', Brown's government had a long term plan to resolve these issues. He was probably the most serious, committed and decent person to have been PM during my lifetime. Voted out, seemingly because he seemed a bit miserable and called a bigoted woman bigoted after she said something bigoted.

 

[clapham_gull]

In 'Building Schools for the Future', Brown's government had a long term plan to resolve these issues. He was probably the most serious, committed and decent person to have been PM during my lifetime. Voted out, seemingly because he seemed a bit miserable and called a bigoted woman bigoted after she said something bigoted.

To be fair he had a number of personality if not moral flaws (all well documented in a number of books) and never really got over not getting the big job in the first place.

Brilliant in a crises though (as the financial crises showed), much better than Blair.

I spent the whole pandemic hoping the Government would bring him in as an advisor. Never going to happen, when the current administration took an ideological spin as they do with everything.

Looks to me that Starmer has been greatly influenced by Brown, less so Blair.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

probably whoever is responsible for maintenance and management of the estate. obvious to blame politicans, just interesting there are many different politicans involved in this matter. they all got it wrong. much is said about budgets, seems to me it's more a prioritisation issue.

You can’t prioritise something if you haven’t got the budget to do it.
both Gove years ago and Sunak as Chancellor cut or completely wiped out budgets/ plans to try and address this.
or do you just get rid of all the teachers just to make sure the buildings are ok?

 

[abc]

Keegan is a fine example of what is wrong with politics. She started out with principals (she even campaigned on the streets against brexit in direct conflict to her party’s orders). She then decided she wanted to further her career and get power and became a yes person to whatever Johnson et al demanded. No longer interested in whats best for her constituents or the country now, only whats best for her career (which will happily take a step backwards at the next GE, even in chichester!)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Keegan is a fine example of what is wrong with politics. She started out with principals (she even campaigned on the streets against brexit in direct conflict to her party’s orders). She then decided she wanted to further her career and get power and became a yes person to whatever Johnson et al demanded. No longer interested in whats best for her constituents or the country now, only whats best for her career (which will happily take a step backwards at the next GE, even in chichester!)

Chichester Harbour is full of tish and so is she.

 

[nicko31]

Keegan is a fine example of what is wrong with politics. She started out with principals (she even campaigned on the streets against brexit in direct conflict to her party’s orders). She then decided she wanted to further her career and get power and became a yes person to whatever Johnson et al demanded. No longer interested in whats best for her constituents or the country now, only whats best for her career (which will happily take a step backwards at the next GE, even in ca ahichester!)

Keegan started off OK, she isn't a 2019 loon, a toff or a Tufton Street luvy.

But if you join the cabal you get will get contaminated and have to defend the indefensible, wrong party Gillian

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Keegan started off OK, she isn't a 2019 loon, a toff or a Tufton Street luvy.

But if you join the cabal you get will get contaminated and have to defend the indefensible, wrong party Gillian

Keegan has been exposed by a whistleblower.