Conservative manifesto launch: 'extra work' for the nation
Is it a Smythson diary? An Eton homework book? I’m told they’re called EW books standing for Extra Work. Well, in effect, it is “extra work” for the nation.
The “invitation to join the government” Tory manifesto is a hardback, sombre, expensive (subsidised shop price £5) booklet that tries to get the British public to step up to the plate and take over aspects of government – like schooling.
Do people really, in their droves, want to? There’s nothing new in the document though it’s clearly been fiddled with right up to the last minute with the national insurance reining-in getting great prominence.
I’ll be intrigued to know how “millions” benefit from the inheritance tax change.
The deficit plan still looks a lot like the government’s when you take out the year one £6bn net withdrawal from the economy.
As for the venue, the ruins of Battersea Power Station (it looks like bits could fall off at any minute onto our Perspex venue in the gutted middle), a derelict long-unloved hulk that is now going to be converted into yuppy flats (or so I’m told) might strike you as an odd backdrop. No doubt all will be explained soon.
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I am always intrigued by how politicians (of all parties) manipulate language
Apparently getting groups of parents to set up and run schools, unpaid and in their spare time, is ‘empowering’ them.
I wonder how many of us would feel empowered if the boss dropped a whole lot of extra work he was supposed to be doing on our desks and told us to do it, unpaid and in our spare time?
How many people actually have the spare time?! Still there is something to be said for getting parents involved with schools provided all parents are truly free to exercise such an interest.
Well,Gary how do i blog on a nothing article , except to say it was a hatchet job,without explaining anything.Saltaire if it means politicians getting out of trying to control things as BALLS does with education , we might get some decent schooling for our children ,They deserve better than Labour and yes better than any politician can give. .Parents have a vested interest in getting the best for their offspring.