“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

teachers retire early because of Ofsted, a teacher even killed herself because of Ofsted. The inspectors usually don’t have a clue about teaching. Absolutely insane this. What a way to get literally every single teacher out on the picket line https://t.co/rud3gHE1Ss

— tom (@tomrade_) July 7, 2023

Ofsted, like means testing, is at the core of right wing Labour DNA. it's all about the managerialism, bureaucracy, "playing by the rules", respectability. this whole insulting speaking lessons so poor kids can pass as middle class. when Labourites talk about aspiration what they mean is everybody should aspire to join the bourgeoisie, and if you don't then you can be happily ignored and left to your service jobs, serving the aspirational well-spoken real people

and the education system that offers nothing except prepping tools for their appropriate slot in the workforce isn't wrong-headed, it just needs MORE utilitarianism, more league tables, more outcomes, more numbers

once my year 6 son finished his SATs suddenly school was such a happier place, teachers taught what they wanted, kids were suddenly engaged and interested

I had an Ofsted inspector on the phone earlier. My son has been selected as a sample student to observe at the SEND college he attends. When the college have been crap I've been quick to let them know about it, but they are doing a great job now. Still I'd never say anything negative or critical about the college to an inspector, that would be nasty. The poor staff have had them in since yesterday now and all seem on high levels of stressed outness.

I just typed a long post about our last Ofsted inspection but eh, what's the point? The whole process is cunty, for all involved. I could be generous and say some of the outcomes were positive but the way it's delivered is so ugly. Anyone who has been in contact with the process is scarred by it. Why does no one listen to this?

Obviously what we need is four times as many Ofsted inspections.

this is entirely with Starmer’s annoying middle manager character sheet

“senior leadership feel the business will operate better if we have 4 performance reviews per year”

IN KEEPING with

Scottish government wants drug possession to be legalhttps://t.co/XZQxyfOfoN

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) July 7, 2023

a rational and necessary legal change that will no doubt be met with thoughtful discussion from the other parties and the media

> speaking lessons so poor kids can pass as middle class.

what if they use their new found assertiveness to point out your own hypocrisy at u-turns in eco promises?

You will be thanked for your contribution to the debate ofc

i was gonna say "oratory" instead of "speaking lessons" but i suspect that what's proposed isn't anything as sophisticated as oratory, it will literally be "being appropriate at work"

The speech equivalent of covering up your tattoos (if they're not hands or face)

Feeling despair and hopelessness because of the gross inequities of the UK class system and from a poor background? You need to ingratiate yourself with people who consider you a lower class of lifeform by talking like a total prick - that's all that is preventing you from becoming a useful person.

As has already been posted, you couldn't find a worse example of a person (re: their oratory skills) to announce a garbage policy like this. Nothing about student fees and grants for students from poor backgrounds or free school meals. I wouldn't vote Labour if someone tried to force me to at gunpoint.

For a foresmic King’s Counsel he is an incredibly weak public speaker, flubs like “the family outstairs” quite common in prepared speeches, easily rattled, general mien of a supply teacher

His poor articulation doesn’t seem to have impeded his opportunities much but I’m sure it’s all that’s standing in the way of poor BAME kids and nothing else needs to be addressed ever

yeah I wonder if talking fluently in an establishment approved style will shield BAME kids from racist police officers who abuse their stop and search powers

You forget Starmer comes from a Four Yorkshiremen Sketch background where his entire family spoke in inarticulate grunts and he was the first in his family to master human speech.

that might have been his "humble toolmaker" dad, who Starmer is loath to mention - was actually the fucking senior management of this factory!

the humble toolmaker created one hell of a tool tbh

it just makes me think if we'd had the equivalent of Mao's cultural revolution in the UK, his dad might have got thrown off a bridge or beaten to death by an angry mob before he had a chance to conceive him!

Get him, Rishi!

So after promising a new era of "integrity" and "grown up" politics, Rishi Sunak now plans to resurrect exactly the same disgraceful smears used by Boris Johnson against his opponents. pic.twitter.com/G4eoXcKzNU

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 8, 2023

I love disgraceful smears - but tbf this cunt was DPP and Savile DID NOT get prosecuted under his watch - so fair game.

the Starmer fans will be posting about how close Savile was with Thatcher and the Conservative Party, oooh you've got them there.

Well, Starmer publicly agreed with his party's attack ad that implied that Sunak personally wanted paedos to get lighter sentences, based off the legal guidelines that Sir Keir was involved in drafting.

Live by the sword, get shanked.

Also when you have made lying like a snake your personal brand, you can't complain about any dirty tricks.

Apologies to my snake brethren, you are without any hyperbole morally and spiritually superior to Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Kieth must apologise

As the world records its hottest ever week, Labour sources brief the Sunday Times that Keir Starmer "hates tree huggers" and wants to ditch the party's green agenda pic.twitter.com/8XIrbNZFVT

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 9, 2023

lol we're all very much gonna die

Just the stupidest cunt imaginable

Oh no. I'm going to go all whiny centrist dad. But I can't help it. This is just a horrible thing to do on someone's wedding. Just maybe leave them the fuck alone. https://t.co/vxcmaWeBMk

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 9, 2023

Oh the humanity! Someone's attacked George Osborne with confetti!

this is a real 'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever' of an image

https://i.imgur.com/q1MrGcQ.png

New campaign song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLalJpRsrGQ

it's just a pity they weren't throwing confetti at Gideon's funeral

The cause of Labour is the no hope of the world

Dunt is toxic jelly

Bet you Dorian agrees with him. Hi Dorian! If you see this, you’re still a cunt!

I genuinely thought this was a parody when I first saw it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0k396dXgAEmUdi.jpg

The melts are questioning the source but it's easily as likely to be Labour spin as it is those nasty Tories

even with a work of fictional dialogue they always have to portray Ed as the chumpish loser

https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1678037291502120974?t=c6aG-AWH0KR50rcX9iyqVA&s=19

twitter embeds broken now?

https://i.postimg.cc/gjVXSBrf/20230709-150044.jpg

🚨NEW: Railway workers on Eurostar have secured a significant pay rise following negotiations between @RMTunion and management.

All staff on £45,000 or below will get a minimum uplift of £4,300.

Pay deal is worth between 8-17% depending on grade and role.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) July 11, 2023

hell fucking yes

that would have been a lot harder if the UK still had a 50% stake…

Meanwhile...

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/labour-does-not-rule-out-rejecting-public-sector-pay-advice-from-review-bodies-b2363603.html

Better vote for them anyway tho #GTTI

because of the economic devastation caused by the Truss mini-budget and Putin's invasion of Ukraine ... blah blah ad infinitum. Regretfully, now a prospective centre-right Labour govt led by someone just as evil and dishonest as any Tory. They will have to commit to the damaging and dangerous austerity/PFI ideas that is in the party's DNA and the watered down to meaningless flagship green policy - all shit stuff that they were going to do anyway, under any circumstances. Oh such difficult decisions for them to make.

as a non-economist I'm curious why these sensible pragmatists can't offer ballpark aspirations for public spending based on forecasts for tax take etc. even within the framework of their own arbitrary rules they seem evasive and dishonest and unable to articulate any kind of positive vision - their rhetoric betrays their nihilism at every turn

sorry, I'm in a stupid place, I know they answer to my own half-baked thoughts. this is a party machine run by people with absolute contempt for voters and they operate on the principle that ideas are bad and confusing.

also of course they are nihilists but