Captain's locked himself in his cabin with a bottle of rum and service revolver, mutineers are either fist-fighting or jumping overboard.

Icebergs ahead...

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As much as I dislike the current lot, I'm backing Theresa May for PM. She seems the most staunch, forthright and switched on of the lot.

That's like saying rhubarb is the the most staunch, forthright and switched on. Only because it's forced to develop in artificial conditions.

Theresa May is probably the most dangerous of the lot, as she is severely ideologically driven and seems to have the skills to pull off her ideas. At least gove wouldn't actually manage to fuck anything up.

^^^^ This

She was the one who rolled out the disgusting "Go Home" immigration vans. Ideologically strong and happy to go about making things actually happen.

 :-D I like rhubarb.

Yeah, I'm fed up of fucking impotent politicians, she'd be effective, I just don't think it'd be a good thing. 

If Gove was elected, he'd only add to his hugely unpopular status.

May will probably be efficiently and competently evil yes. What's this with her and the Yarl's Wood sexual offences? I haven't read up on it properly but her handling of that was reportedly Very Bad.

I have almost come to like how each day answers the question "Can this get any worse and farcical?" with "Sure, why not?"

Everyone likes rhubarb, and thankfully rhubarb doesn't hold many inflammatory views.

It's not Westminster, it's Jonestown.

You forget that he used to be Minister of Education.

Did he actually manage to do anything in that position? I thought everyone just ignored him.

Does demotivating the UK's teachers count?

I'm pretty sure that's what happens just by /having/ an Education Secretary.

It comes from having an education secretary that wants to be seen to be doing something, no matter the consequences, or how asinine the policy.

To be fair, that probably covers the majority, but Gove was a special case.

Gove is often a special case.

He fucked us all roughly from behind. He worked to an elitist agenda. Changes to GCSEs are his doing and were unnecessary. Ditto for a-level changes. Everything is more academically focused now which is great for the 30% or so who are academic but sucks for the majority. Ofsted removed satisfactory from the possible judgement of an inspection. That's now "requires improvement" which sucks. His insistence that every child should have an above average education has given school leaders carte blanche to treat in-school monitoring and assessment policies as a big stick to beat staff up with. He changed teaching standards into another tool that allows slt to beat teachers up.

You can't ignore the Secretary of State. He's a twat.

There's only really two things anybody needs to know about Gove.



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I suppose if his leadership campaign does look like going somewhere people can dig out the recent interview where he say he lacks the ability and desire to be PM, but in a post-facts political world it doesn't really matter does it.

Oh shit I forgot the clapping thing. Sorry, this is really a bit juvenile but I'll take what I can get at the moment.

http://www.shortlist.com/news/how-to-clap-like-michael-gove-claps

By the way, if you go to gove2016.com you get that cartoon above. Register your domains BEFORE you campaign, people!

Wow. Sucks to be a teacher in England :(

You don't know the half of it

You sound just like my teachers. :C