Monday 4th September 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

I see the JLM are getting mad at *checks notes* a Jewish woman being elected to a council seat


Gotta be the right kind of Jew.

[refitman]

Wasn't that like #1 on his pledge list?

[RogerOThornhill]

Good morning.

Not a great start for the DfE in the week children go back to school.

[gilsey]

Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels, the Department for Education’s former head civil servant has said.

After the department told Sunak’s Treasury that there was a need to rebuild 300 to 400 schools a year in England, he gave funding for only 100, which was then halved to 50, said Jonathan Slater, the permanent secretary of the department from 2016 to 2020.

When questioned on Today about the slimmed-down rebuilding programme, Keegan presented it as a standard to-and-fro discussion over funding between a department and the Treasury, saying Sunak’s department might not have seen the specific plan as good value for money.

“There’s always a challenge in terms of putting forward your case for funding, and how much you get,” she said. “And every department will always put forward a case for more than they actually get. What you have to do is demonstrate good value for money.”

Treasury brain.

Why spend £1bn now when you can kick the can down the road and it'll probably be the other lot who have to spend £3bn later.

[RogerOThornhill]

I'm shocked, shocked that a man photographed with a whip on his desk has been found to be in breach of bullying and harrasment rules!

[RogerOThornhill]

"It's not the job of the DfE"
"Erm...if they are academies, then yes it is"

[refitman]

[RogerOThornhill]

Oh dear me...taxi for Nicola Murray...I mean Gillian Keegan.

[frog222]

$$$$'s clearly in LA, and then the weird English 100% Target Culture also forcing sick kids into classrooms to make themselves sicker and other sick ....

repeatedly ....

[frog222]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Gotta be the right kind of Jew.

But the other side of that coin is that just "being a Jew" is not in itself a defence against AS.

Few would seriously disagree that (for instance) Atzmon and Greenstein are bigoted Jew-hating cranks, whatever their ethnic origin.

[refitman]

Gotta be the right kind of Jew.

But the other side of that coin is that just "being a Jew" is not in itself a defence against AS.

Few would seriously disagree that (for instance) Atzmon and Greenstein are bigoted Jew-hating cranks, whatever their ethnic origin.

Anything to deflect, eh?

[frog222]

[frog222]

Going out to do a little mowing

cooled down to 28 .....

[AnatolyKasparov]

Gotta be the right kind of Jew.

But the other side of that coin is that just "being a Jew" is not in itself a defence against AS.

Few would seriously disagree that (for instance) Atzmon and Greenstein are bigoted Jew-hating cranks, whatever their ethnic origin.

Anything to deflect, eh?

There is no deflection - the idea, commonly seen in Corbynite circles, that just claiming "Jewish identity" means you cannot be AS is simply false.

Jo Bird may not be an anti-Semite (I honestly don't know enough about her case to judge) but if so its not just because "she's Jewish".