The Cabinet ministers have now settled in. They've found their skivvies, they've found the booze cupboard and they've set about putting into practice their favourite nutty policies. We all know their policies weren't detailed in the run-up to the election and most of us suspect that if they were, the election results would have been very, very different with the Tories coming in way behind even the Communist party!
But they are in power now and they are happily destroying what we have because, well that is what they do.
The excuses are being trotted out to reduce the size of government. We all know that without government there will be even less regulation of big business, because with no one working for us to enforce the regulations then you get something like a banking crash or massive ecological disasters. Familiar?
Their other main plank for the moment is education. Mr Gove. The only use I can think for this man, the only use for the entirety of mankind is to bring back Spitting Image just so we can see the puppet the original puppet makers would make of him! In the meantime he is busily selling his disguised policy of privatising our State Education system.
Parents are supposed to set up committees to run schools. After all, parents will, by his definition be better than the professionals. Once the enthusiastic parents have embarked on the path to the ideology of Mr Gove. They will wear themselves out. Just before they collapse with exhaustion or the stress of biting off far more than they can professionally chew, they'll call in the experts. The experts will of course be private education companies. The company bosses will, like the MBA courses have told them to, aim high and begin buying up as many companies as they can. To do otherwise is to invite failure, apparently. We'll have globalised education providers soon enough. Home Economics will consist of teaching kids around the world what soup brand to purchase. Tin openers will be provided free by the sponsor (who also happen to be selling the top-rated brand of soup). And no one will suspect a thing. It will be just coincidence, won't it? Maths will be taught by a consultant from an investment bank or Enron II. Science classes will be devoted to finding ways of restricting the atmosphere to small portable packages while the business class will be busy creating marketing plans designed to sell permium fresh air to those who can afford it.
Be warned. We've an even bigger problem if that man is put in charge of nuclear power plants. Honestly. A serious problem. Just imagine what he could really be daft enough to do!
Luckily, here in Scotland education is devolved and Mr Gore doesn't have a job here! Not so far.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
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