I was an active member of NUT until I found out that our local rep had his salary paid by the LEA in a deal with the union. He helped shut our school and refused to carry out collective bargaining even when we voted unanimously. He “advised” LEA in how to deal with staff. When we complained to the union, they refused to listen. Left with the impression this sort of thing happened a lot. Didn’t renew my membership and wouldn’t ever rejoin.
tenebrisnox
joined 2 years ago
There’s a primary and secondary element to this: fast elevating grifter-types who are thrilled with “managing” others out of the classroom (especially if they’re not good teachers) and awarding them excessively large salaries. £300-500k plus a chauffeur anyone for parading round in a suit and making the “big decisions” like employing cheap non-qualifieds.
I’ll eat my hat if I see any of the senior managers of academies and MATs being made redundant.
Shhhh! Don’t mention the atomic waste. Nuclear is clean energy that’ll save the planet… if it doesn’t irradiate the planet first.
“Ban work before it kills you!”
Not surprising. 4 Green Party MPs hardly ever interviewed in the media or reported about. 5 Reform UK MPs who are all over the media. Today I’ve heard Farage and Tice interviewed.
Media is complicit in pumping in the oxygen to boost Reform. It’s deliberate to destabilise UK politics.
This. Exactly.
He’s a nutjob (apologies to nuts and to employment). He wrote one of the books that emboldened the loopy Johnson/Truss/Sunak generation of Tories called Conservative Revival. He’s also VERY keen on bringing back the workhouses (genuinely, in his 2013 book Work for the Dole). Horrible nasty Tory.
Why am I not surprised?
(More and more I have an absolute feeling that I’m being fucked over by already wealthy people - and there’s nothing I can do about it in any way!)
You are right. Is a hitherto episode of epilepsy a good defence for dangerous driving in general?
I guess it could come down to whether or not the person has previous incidents of dangerous driving or they have footage or other evidence to suggest she wasn’t epileptic. If there’s no physical evidence or subsequent seizures. (I know I’m speculating and - you are right - we should assume innocence and that her account is right until shown not to be).
Is there a way checking whether an epileptic seizure has taken place? (MRI scan showing trace evidence in the brain?) If the driver has not experienced subsequent seizures, it would be difficult to accept this one without evidence.
I’ll be surprised if Labour do anything to challenge anything about MATs and the crooks who run them. Take a look at the “experts” involved in the curriculum review - all pro-academisation and many of them already raking in the cash as either CEOs or advisors to MATs. I think parents would be genuinely shocked if they knew the extent of the (for want of a better word) corruption in education. Like all aspects of governing a modern state, politcians don’t want to actually manage anything and are quite happy to let the grifters do it for them.