Current Affairs The Conservative Party

[ClausThomsen]

Also in 2010 at the treasury….

David Laws told reporters: "When I arrived at my desk on the very first day as chief secretary, I found a letter from the previous chief secretary to give me some advice, I assumed, on how I conduct myself over the months ahead.

"Unfortunately, when I opened it, it was a one-sentence letter which simply said: 'Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left,' which was honest but slightly less helpful advice than I had been expecting."

So there may have been a reason regarding the £55Billion…….

Either way, Governments have ignored this and now are making a complete dogs dinner of it……

"If we used financial accounting we would never have any public spending, we would build nothing ... Financial accounting would strike a dagger through the whole case for public sector investment"

Philip Hammond justifying the now estimated £110B spend on HS2, November 2010

When there is political and personal will money will always be found. It's spending will be justified by those who wish to do so. The reason that money was not spent on schools at the time was that there was no sense of any direct personal or political gain to be had.

 

[Alan Whittle]

It's a pity his wife doesn't own a crumbly school repair business.

I’m sure Michelle Mone is creating a crumbly school specialist repair company as we speak in the full expectation of a gold plated government contract and is buying the global stock of Weetabix to assist her noble cause.

 

[Amw79]

Ah, government ministers are upset because no-one’s queueing up to tell them what a good job they’ve done over the school concrete fiasco.

The sense of entitlement from this lot is off the charts.

Gillian Keegan: Education secretary apologises for swearing on camera in rant on school concrete crisis

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was caught on camera voicing her frustrations about coverage of the concrete situation.

news.sky.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Ah, government ministers are upset because no-one’s queueing up to tell them what a good job they’ve done over the school concrete fiasco.

The sense of entitlement from this lot is off the charts.

Gillian Keegan: Education secretary apologises for swearing on camera in rant on school concrete crisis

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was caught on camera voicing her frustrations about coverage of the concrete situation.

news.sky.com

Once upon a time touted as the next Thatcher...

 

[mightymoyes]

Once upon a time touted as the next Thatcher...

same place thatcher resides is the only place for these ghouls

 

[Yarrgh]

If you voted Tory in the last election I genuinely don't think you should be allowed to vote ever again.

Should get sent to Rwanda (sorry Rwanda) if you vote for them in the next one.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Ah, government ministers are upset because no-one’s queueing up to tell them what a good job they’ve done over the school concrete fiasco.

The sense of entitlement from this lot is off the charts.

Gillian Keegan: Education secretary apologises for swearing on camera in rant on school concrete crisis

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was caught on camera voicing her frustrations about coverage of the concrete situation.

news.sky.com

The Cabinet meets to discuss the School Buildings problems.

 

[woomy]

Only took a couple of days, but Keegan has just blamed Labour for doing nothing, 20 years ago.

 

[tsubaki]

Only took a couple of days, but Keegan has just blamed Labour for doing nothing, 20 years ago.

It isn't as daft an idea as it sounds - governments have known about the issues with this material since the mid-90s, and what was needed (regular inspections and eventual removal / replacement) to deal with the problem. It is also by no means the only issue that was left by successive governments for someone else to deal with later, see also PFI and flammable cladding fitted to high rises to name two of very many of them.

 

[woomy]

It isn't as daft an idea as it sounds - governments have known about the issues with this material since the mid-90s, and what was needed (regular inspections and eventual removal / replacement) to deal with the problem. It is also by no means the only issue that was left by successive governments for someone else to deal with later, see also PFI and flammable cladding fitted to high rises to name two of very many of them.

Problem with her statement is, Labour had allocated £55bn? For school rebuilds, I think, might be wrong on that figure. Gove scrapped it when they came into power.
Governments should have acted sooner, but this 1 really is on them.
She claimed Labour knew when they were I power. For her to know that, the tories must also have known. Yet here we are.

 

[tsubaki]

Problem with her statement is, Labour had allocated £55bn? For school rebuilds, I think, might be wrong on that figure. Gove scrapped it when they came into power.
Governments should have acted sooner, but this 1 really is on them.
She claimed Labour knew when they were I power. For her to know that, the tories must also have known. Yet here we are.

That scheme (Building Schools for the Future) was terrible; it relied on private sector "investment" and would have basically spread PFI throughout the education system in much the same way as it did in hospitals. When Gove called it wasteful he was right.

Of course what needed to happen was for it to be replaced with was a proper programme of school renovation and rebuilding, rather than almost nothing.

 

[Goat]

 

[Rita_Poon]

needs this bolting on the end...
first 8 seconds

 

[Rita_Poon]

Someone's going to trawl through the speeches and photo ops and highlight the many purposeful errors and thank them in full for each. It'll be a lengthy watch.

on the end of that video, she blames the schools, honest, have a look, she has the brass balls to blame the schools for not sending the questionnaires back on time, who's on watch at the schools in special measures? 'schools can fall down because of a leak', oh ok, so how many leaks do we have? let me guess, more questionnaires... Top job Gill, cracking effort, can we all have a round of applause please for Gill, she's a salt of the earth sort, for actually getting off her arse....

needs a stupider haircut and a lot more bumbling with the occasional latin reference if you're going to play to the johnson brigade of feckwitted inbreds...

 

[Goat]

Someone's going to trawl through the speeches and photo ops and highlight the many purposeful errors and thank them in full for each. It'll be a lengthy watch.

on the end of that video, she blames the schools, honest, have a look, she has the brass balls to blame the schools for not sending the questionnaires back on time, who's on watch at the schools in special measures? 'schools can fall down because of a leak', oh ok, so how many leaks do we have? let me guess, more questionnaires... Top job Gill, cracking effort, can we all have a round of applause please for Gill, she's a salt of the earth sort, for actually getting off her arse....

needs a stupider haircut and a lot more bumbling with the occasional latin reference if you're going to play to the johnson brigade of feckwitted inbreds...

They dont have to try, people will vote for them cos they share their own right wing views.