The key point, as I say in the article, (and this one) is to reverse then remove the corporatisation of state education. That could have started on day 1. (The same can be said of the privatisation of the NHS, social care and utilities). Attlee’s government set up the NHS from almost zero 1945-48.

That’s true but there’s no indication that any practical start has been made. & for the reasons you state, that means it’s not going to happen by 2034. We’ve an epidemic of junior mental health issues *now*. A decade is a generation’s passage through the education system 5-16. So when? 2040? 2045?

I don’t think Johnson was quite as bad as Gove because he just wanted to play at PM; he’s too vacuous to have any ideology whatsoever, he’ll just say/do what gets him there. Trump’s similar. That’s obviously careless endangerment. But the application of an extreme ideology is systematically sinister

‘Article attached to the original *post*

Yes, this is covered in the article attached to the original article. It’s clearly ideological and will have originated in the opinions that he expressed as a young man. His speech indicates his ideas (and later policies) are rooted in enculturation and subjugation.

He probably still thinks he’s going to get away with it. After all, ‘Lord’ Gove said even worse as a university student *and* it was recorded it on tape. He then took his vile ideas through into the National Curriculum. How can anyone vote for them?

Precisely said .. same shit here in usa..

It's time to change the system. MPs should not take advantage of it....starting with the Reform Leader. He did when an MEP and got away with it and does it now and no one bats an eyelid.

In a past life, I was involved in pandemic planning exercises. Not my/our lane, so we followed the lead of PH people.

I imagined certain things would happen. There was a plan. Nope.

Capacity had been gutted and then the poshboys tore up what little was left.

A catastrophe. Lucrative, though.

When Johnson was leader, I used to say that if I wanted to see a comedian I would buy a theatre ticket. Give me boring any day in politics.

LiarJohnson - the worst PM in uk history

Unchallenged

The same way they rest of them did.

It's time we stopped electing arseholes from Eton.

People were apparently fed up with boring politicians like Gordon Brown and wanted someone with a sense of humor. They figured the Yes-Minister bureaucrats would keep things working in the background like they always had, and the PM could be a fun distraction. That's the Royal Family's job, though.

Yes. The mirror world Bee Gees of politics. ‘Nah, nah, nah, staying alive.’ Both knighted, for ruining the institutions they headed.