One must admire the tenacity of Miss Phillipson. Raised in Tyne and Wear between a disused railway and a flattened chemical plant, she has evidently decided that her childhood hardships constitute a permanent shield against arithmetic.
How quaint.
Miss Phillipson promised 6,500 teachers, funded by her spiteful little VAT raid on private schools. She has delivered, by her own creative accounting, 4,654. One might almost congratulate her, were one not possessed of a calculator and the ability to read footnotes.
The 4,654 includes further education lecturers and special school staff. The actual increase in secondary teachers? Nine hundred and seventy-eight. Not 6,500. Not close. She has not moved goalposts; she has relocated the entire pitch to another sport.
Meanwhile, the National Education Union reports that zero percent of her profession considers her work "very good." Seventy-four percent consider it poor. One imagines even the flattened chemical plant of her youth achieved higher approval ratings.
The private school VAT has displaced thousands of children, damaged the sector, and produced precisely the opposite of her stated intent. But then, one does not become Education Secretary to educate. One becomes Education Secretary to settle scores dressed as social justice.
Miss Phillipson did not escape poverty to improve schools. She escaped to become precisely the sort of politician who uses her past as immunity from scrutiny while dismantling the ladders she climbed.
VERDICT: Statistical fraud in working-class costume. A revolutionary who destroys the ladder, then charges admission to view the wreckage.
The โconstant chatterโ you detect is the sound of more than 100 schools closing because Britain - uniquely in Europe - now taxes education. Or maybe itโs the noise made by thousands of parents beggaring themselves to keep special needs kids in school. If this is what makes you proud, Iโd be fascinated to know what makes you feel ashamed.
@AvonandsomerRob I think since the bovaer issue alot of people have gone back to proper butter..and the extra square footage allocated to block butters nowadays confirms this.
Loved Rachel Reeves having the face of a smacked arse when paying court to Burnham, knowing she was going to lose her job.
Now she knows how the entire hospitality industry feels.
@PolitlcsUK@thetimes Not a labour fan ..but even i think Shabana Mahmood should stay in post..she us at least making small steps in the right direction
@CamillaTominey@Jacob_Rees_Mogg@DailyTPodcast And GB News edited that interview, despite promises otherwise.
As I told you - I am very happy to come on your GB News show, live and unedited.
Let me know when works.
@Leeds19192@NormanBrennan We went to Swanage for a day out last year whilst on holiday in Dorset..beautiful place..loved the punch and Judy on the beach ..still has a "wimpy" cafe..hubby was happy...