The Council has been repeatedly bleating this week about an inaccurate article in the Daily Torygraph claiming that there are no male teachers in our local primary schools, where the 'newspaper' didn't check the facts.......
I can't get my head around this. Isn't that what all Tory-supporting newspapers omit to do ? Including not checking who runs the local Council.
Though of course our local mob are pretty irrelevant in the wishful schemes of Cam-borne.
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Surely Geoff you underestimate the shock value? If Tories can't rely on the Telegraph to lie for them, their world is rocked to its core. It opens the floodgates: the Daily Mail could be next! Freddie Forsythe could discover socialism; Quentin Letts could discover the odd flaw in Toryism that had never occurred to him before.
I've always thought of you that if you had a fault it was that you just weren't SENSITIVE enough; it jars these people, and pains them. Don't you... don't you CARE?
Incidentally, do you know of any newspapers that aren't Tory-supporting, other than the Guardian (and God knows whom they support)?
Well - Robert there is the County Press - particularly Charlotte Hofton's column which seems to frequently 'big up' Geoff - to the extent that he quotes her on his blogsite.
However, did you see in the Times article on the school an interesting comment on our own dear council? Apparently they have been identified as a Tory target council in the June elections. What a turn-up eh? What does that say about the faith of the national Tory machine in our dear leader Cllr. Pooh? Seems the national party is seeing slightly more clearly than the myopic shower we have to answer to at County Hall. Do you know if it is true?
I don't know if it's true, not being awfully close to the Tory leadership, but a target council? Does that mean they're going to count it as a gain should they re-win it?
I think the Tories have not been impressed by the education debate fiasco; and perhaps they're aware that ex-Tory councillor Joyce is calling on almost anyone to come forward for election so long as they're not attached to any given political party, which means of course that he wants to split the Tory vote and bring down the DP Tendency.
Trouble is, I think there are several good Tory councillors, hidden away in the foliage; where I don't see even the glimmering of talent is on the Tory front-bench. Cameron drivelling again today, this time criticizing welfare dependency. Great timing: unemployment bumping the 3 million mark, and Dave says we have too many people on welfare. Wonder why?
The man is an opportunist dimwit. The return of Kenneth Clark to the front bench exposes just how inadequate Cameron and Osborne are.
I think "The Times article on the school" refers to my piece on the Times Online education blog, School Gate, about the council letting schools by competition. Here's the link:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2009/03/many-people-who.html
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