The news in tweets: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Falling energy prices are not being passed on to customers and the government is doing nothing. Why? Tory energy security minister Grant Shapps was grilled over the government’s failure to support...
View ArticleWhy are schools falling apart when the Tory government had ALL SUMMER to fix...
It’s September, and here in the UK – every year – it means “Back to School”. That’s apart from kids whose schools are falling apart because they were built with RAAC concrete, of course. This Writer...
View ArticleGillian Keegan HAS done a good job – of f*cking her own career
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has been caught on camera, in the middle of the RAAC concrete/crumbling schools crisis, bemoaning the lack of support she has received for doing, in her words, “a...
View ArticleRishi Sunak’s weasel words can’t hide the lie: Tories WERE called out on...
Rishi Sunak has been caught lying in Prime Minister’s Questions again. He said Opposition leader Keir Starmer had never raised the issue of crumbling schools with him before PMQs on Wednesday...
View ArticleTories said they were rebuilding 50 schools per year. Actual number: TWO
The trouble with Tory lies – other than the fact that there are so many of them – is their tendency to fall apart when the facts are checked. Here’s Peter Stefanovic on the schools’ rebuilding...
View ArticleIs covert deal to cut help for special needs pupils in England part of Tory...
Here’s a shocking admission from the Tory government: The government has quietly signed a contract targeting 20% cuts to the number of new education plans for children with special educational needs...
View ArticleWhich Tory donor will profit from the Portakabins being hired for crumbling...
This is on-the-button – and also on-the-nose: Very good news for the Tory donor who will win this contract. pic.twitter.com/4oedPUIyBy — Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) September 14, 2023 Responses were...
View Article‘Judge us by our record’, says Tory MP. We did – and the verdict is not good!
Conservative Pensions Minister Laura Trott made a bit of a blunder on the morning media round: she asked the public to judge the Conservative Party on its “track record” since 2010. Here she is, saying...
View ArticleLabour’s plan for public schools is controversial; here’s why
On one hand, it’s just another broken Keir Starmer promise. But it seems to have created a lot more heat than might be expected. Here’s what’s going on: Labour has dropped plans to end charitable...
View ArticleWill Tory conference announcements all prove as daft as this?
Here’s something that is typical of the Tories – certainly since they got back into office in 2010: a lack of joined-up thinking. So we get announcements like this: One of the biggest issues children...
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