Education

I return to a recurring theme because in the time that I have been posting on this blog I have always believed that, apart from our membership of the EU, the education of the nation's children should be our priority. I applaud everything that Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has done because it would appear that he is acting like a Tory Minister which is rare in this Coalition. 

He is trying to turn back the tide of mediocrity and criminality which has pervaded our education system. Year after year they have frankly 'fiddled' with the education grades whilst weakening the quality of the examinations. It is one of the worst scandals in the history of this island because it has deprived generations (probably three generations of their birthright) ...a decent education.

So what is he trying to do? He is actually trying to move education standards (in 2015) back to exam based results. No more course input from teachers or parents because the child will be placed under exam conditions. They will have to learn the skill of learning and remembering. It is what I would call really stressful! 

I agree with the whole package because it is the first test of life but I do have reservations. How can a generation of teachers weaned on a corrupt system which handed them results on a plate be qualified to teach children to pass an honest exam? Few of them in the state system have any experience of preparing children for an honest examination!

No wonder the teaching unions are yelping! They are facing a veritable nightmare. They have fought off all attempts to legitimise education in this country for decades and then suddenly they are being challenged. 

My hopes are that no longer will we see the images on the BBC featuring grinning kids celebrating their multiple 'A*' grades unless they are merited. I want to celebrate the 'A' level students who merit their 'A' grade. I want to be proud of my grandchildren if they achieve a decent, honest, 'C' grade.

If he pulls this off then Michael Gove will deserve a platform alongside Margaret Thatcher because what he is doing could be the beginning of a return to normality for the nation. Once the education system is honest then everything else will fall into place because the kids will appreciate their place in society.

For what... forty years... children have been cheated of their rightful heritage. They have been taught that cheating works. They have been taught that they don't have to put themselves out to achieve good grades. Of course those that deserved good grades suffered because they were compared to mediocrity and they knew it.

Well done Michael Gove but just where will you find the teachers to implement your ambition? Most of them will not even recognise what you want to achieve because they themselves never achieved it. Time to involve and pay a whole host of grandparents who understand your goal?

The Welfare System

I think that the working public are sick of the scroungers who live a good life on the welfare system and are never challenged by the government. They know the system, their entitlements and how to survive very nicely on what many of us consider far too much money! Many of them are immigrants.


There is a train of thought that some politicians have engineered this drain on the welfare system to further their political aims. They want western societies to be bankrupted and that is why politically we seem to be unable to tackle the problem. Nobody has the political will to challenge the system.


The Labour party abjectly allowed this scandal to swell and prosper. The LibDems also support the Welfare Class and encourage the unemployed and the sick, lame and lazy to sponge off the state. 


Before I go further let me categorically state that I will go to the ends of the earth to support those who are genuinely in need. Our current system however threatens these genuine cases and allows the fit but sleazy to escape undetected. These are the people that we must track down and identify. We could do this easily if we had the political will to instruct the Job Centres and the Benefits agencies to make it a priority!


So when our Conservative Prime Minister announces plans to tackle the problem you will forgive me for doubting his integrity. Of course this cannot happen until after 2015 because of the Coalition so he is blatantly electioneering. Remember this is the same guy who promised us a referendum on the EU and then reneged on almost every manifesto promise he made at the last election. 


Here we go again. He knows what the public want so he vaguely promises to address it. He gets the headlines but has absolutely no intention of following through. The people who wield the power meet at the Bilderberg meetings and would never allow our PM to go off message. 


So my message is don't believe this Political Class. They routinely lie because they serve masters that the rest of us do not have access to. Occasionally they slip up and leave clues. The clues always lead to the same result. David Cameron could sort out the welfare farce at a stroke. David Cameron and Iain Duncan-Smith keep hinting that they have everything under control. They have no intention of changing anything.


At Question Time last Thursday the arrogant Ken Clarke sneered at the proposals of Michael Gove to improve education. He more or less stated that he and Nick Clegg were in charge and nothing would change. That is our challenge. We must weed out these imposters and servants of  Bilderberg and vote them out like they did in Iceland.


Electorally we are limited in our choice. Only the big three have sufficient money to flood the field with candidates. They also own the media and the banks and the corporate authorities. Up against that we have Nigel Farage (UKIP) and Nick Griffin (BNP). Clearly the mainstream media will tell you that they are unelectable. The trouble is that if we don't elect them we will get more of Ken Clarke, Ed Balls and the core of the Bilderberger servants who are in thrall to the New World Order. It is almost like Christianity against Satanism. Think about it!

Education - a sore point!

Michael Gove is he a true Conservative?

This lunch time on the BBC's Politics Show businessman Digby Jones articulated what most of us have known for many years and that is that kids educated by the state education system are by and large unemployable. There are of course exceptions mainly those that have intelligent parents or grandparents who can identify problems missed by teachers and tackle them.


For 10 years (1987-1997) I was heavily involved in training 16-18 year olds who had left school and hoped to gain employment. It was my job in one capacity or another to assist them into their first jobs and I am still in contact with some of them who have been extraordinary successful.


During that time I was appalled at the education standards but at least we did, at that time, have something to work on and in most cases we could bring the youngsters up to scratch. According to Digby Jones that is not now possible and companies are having to install remedial programmes to guarantee that young people can cope with the basic skills.


So along comes Michael Gove, our Education Secretary, who suggests that we improve state education by ditching the present system of GCSE's and return to the exam based GCE's. 


Wow! You would have thought that he had declared nuclear war on the education system. As I write Andy Burnham is bleating on 'Question Time' about the second class citizens that good education would create. Earlier Nick Clegg looked aghast at the very thought of children having a fair grading system. Currently we have a plethera of exam boards who compete for the largesse of schools by making exam papers easier.


We need one national examination board. We need a national grading standard that does not allow teachers or exam boards to 'adjust' the marking system. Those politicians and Trade Union bosses who have vested interests in keeping the education system at a low level will always try to prevent improvement. 


Michael Gove has set the bar at a high level. He seems to want to improve the system. That old rogue Ken Clarke has just stated live on national television that the committee that will decide on Michael Gove's proposal is chaired by Nick Clegg and vice chaired by himself! 


These two people will then ensure that nothing changes because neither bats for Britain. If any Minister wants to change the system he faces (a) the Public Service Unions and (b) the Modernisers. When almost every front bench politician is now a 'moderniser' it is almost impossible for a true 'Conservative' to introduce a policy which would be good for the public. Maybe that is the clincher! A member of the Cameron government can float an idea which seems like a Conservative policy but has no chance of being accepted.


Michael Gove is highly placed in the Cabinet. Like David Cameron he is articulate and presentable. He would not be in the Cabinet if he was not a moderniser. He is pretending to be a Conservative. Sorry folks but if you want to understand the man look at his mates.