Dear All
Time for a quote:
“I believe it is fundamentally better for
us all, if decisions about Scotland's future are taken by the people who care
most about Scotland, that is, by the people of Scotland.
Being independent means Scotland's future
will be in Scotland's hands”.
This is what is called
setting the stage.
The Scottish National
Party made a big deal about Scotland's future in
Scotland's hands, but the reality is that Scotland’s future would be in the
hands of the Nationalists if they had won.
As you can see in health, justice and
education, the big three briefs, the SNP has done rather badly.
In education, we have Mike Russell, as
Education Secretary, a man who was given a justifiably given a vote of no confidence.
Although the SNP claim to be listening to experts, the experts of education
weren’t to be listened to it seems. Mike Russell, Salmond’s pal wasn’t to be
sacked by Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond.
A mistake, but then, the SNP is run as a
one man band.
Russell has now admitted that mistakes were
made in introducing new exams in schools, the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE)
rolled out too early and because of indy no one chasing this up in the form of
Russell to fix it.
Scotland had no effective government since
May 2011 and it shows.
Russell has refused to apologise to
teachers, parents and pupils for the debacle because, he is Salmond’s pal, just
like the offensive Joan McAlpine, protected by the warm glow of Salmond when
they should have had their arse flamed and removed.
In trying to be meaningful, Russell said
the process of implementing new qualifications under the Curriculum for
Excellence (CfE) had been “difficult”.
And then he spins the new system “is
succeeding and will succeed”, given his track record of failure how much stock
can be put in his observations.
Russell said:
“Everybody who is involved in this process
has made mistakes. Everybody can think of things they would want to do
differently. This can be difficult and has been difficult, it has not been
perfect, no work of human hand is perfect. But I think that there has been
genuine good work undertaken across the board, by this committee right through
to schools, to individuals, and that has produced results and that’s what we
intend to go on doing.”
In other words, Russell wants to blame
others for his failure of leadership, it was nothing to do with him being in
charge, others are responsible but he accepts responsibility, presumably on the
way to the ATM to draw out his ministerial salary.
As the calls grow to apologise to teachers,
parents and pupils who had struggled with the changes, Mike Russell is deaf to
them.
Labour MSP Neil Bibby said:
“You have accepted there have been mistakes
made in the course of this. You have said that there has been over-assessment. As
the man who is ultimately responsible, would you like to apologise to the
teachers, parents and pupils for what has gone on?”
Russell responded:
“No, what I’d like to do is to pay tribute
to everybody who has worked so hard. Everybody has worked hard on this and it
has been tough for a lot of different people. But in those circumstances we
have done something that is worthwhile and is producing results for the young
people of Scotland. CfE is a good thing which many, many people have worked together
to make a success and I’m grateful to every single one of them.”
Which is why so many teachers don’t understand
it and apparently that isn’t a problem!
He added:
“We have in process a culture change that
is and has been difficult for some teachers, but the whole programme is
designed to support that change and to make it happen.”
Well that is meaningless tripe.
And in not recognize problems, Russell added
the extra workload faced by teachers was “absolutely not integral” to the new
exam system.
Really!
One of the changes that is needed but
probably won’t happen is that Mike Russell needs to be shown the door, now that
Salmond is going, can unpopular Nicola Sturgeon carry the dead weight, but in a
party of uneducated non entities who can be promoted?
Anyone stupid enough to believe the meaningless pap:
“I believe it is fundamentally better for
us all, if decisions about Scotland's future are taken by the people who care
most about Scotland, that is, by the people of Scotland. Being independent means Scotland's future
will be in Scotland's hands”.
With this dick in charge kids don't have a future!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
5 comments:
It will interesting to see if Sturgeon boots Salmonds mates out, and who she brings onboard. Your right George there's no one of any note to step up to the mark.
Mike Rarseull, Kenny MacArsekill, Arselex Neil just to name three SNP failures who should have been "sacked" long ago. God help Scotland with clowns like these running the madhouse! :-))
Georgie boy would you do consultancy for other parties?
Crookie
Dear Crookie
"Georgie boy would you do consultancy for other parties?"
I have found through-out my life even when at University of Glasgow, I was the guy to go see for ideas to get people out of a hole.
As you know some parties are in a deeper hole than others at present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Z_bpTiqAw
Check out my political indyref video, this one was done for fun but it has a serious point.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Dear Crookie
"Georgie boy would you do consultancy for other parties?"
That would depend on what they were offering.
First idea,I would give for free.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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