Comments on: Ed Balls Is Not Fit To Be Secretary of State for Schools

By: Alan Ji

Alan Ji — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:10:08 +0000

There are actually two issues here, and I am reminded of George Orwell’s famous comments about other people’s views of Salvador Dali. Fit and proper person checks take forever and threats of legal action against enforcement take even longer. Flavio Briatore is still a Director of Queens Park Rangers FC. Hair-splitting arguments about his involvement in Motor racing continue.

Whether or not HuT people are involved in the two Schools and the Foundation requires careful checking. Two prominent Tories have high-profiled an attack without careful checking.

Now where’s the easiest and most public target?

By: Monty

Monty — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:14:53 +0000

amie,
I don’t think the islamic schools get a standard OFSTED inspection. Something another commenter (Metta?) wrote made me think that there is a special branch of OFSTED for them. And that also makes me suspect that the teaching in these schools may be in a language other than English, but that’s a bit speculative on my part. It would sharply reduce the risk of getting an inspector who does any serious inspecting.

By: Flaming Fairy

Flaming Fairy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:28:20 +0000

HuT and the BNP are exactly the same kind of fascist scum, just different drag.

By: Dez

Dez — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:54:09 +0000

Lee John Barnes meet Red Deathy, you both have much in common.

By: amie

amie — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:49:37 +0000

Indeed, the OFSTED inspector who gave the Hizb school a clean bill of health had appeared at a conference alongside one of the Hizb activists involved in the school. Perhaps she doesn’t think that there is anything intrinsically wrong about Hizb running a school:

Maybe tricky for the gvt to act on this, but this is certainly rich material for someone willing to take the Ofsted verdict to court on review. Of course the tricky bit is finding that private interested party or organisation.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:24:23 +0000

Any idea who David Lindsay is talking to?

By: David Lindsay

David Lindsay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Good headline.

And good to see that the Blairite-Brownite feud lives on, with you Blairites now openly endorsing Cameron.

By: Alec M

Alec M — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:14:43 +0000

Deathy, you drew a link with Tory-supporting Enoch Powell not being thought to cast doubt on Tory school governors. That’s ‘cos the Tory party is not a religio-political and fascist party.

By: Red Deathy

Red Deathy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:49:59 +0000

Alec,

I didn’t say it wasn’t like the BNP. I’m still waitign for you to show where I’ve engaged in moral relativism.

By: Stephen Gash

Stephen Gash — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:49:58 +0000

Quote: “SIOE and the other Muslim-hating groups.”
Where were/are the parents of the children who were/are pupils at this school?

Quote: “Parents and children being told that ‘fanatics’ are teaching their children ”

Did they need Cameron to tell them about any Hizb-ut-Tahrir connection, if there was one?

If there is/was a connection and parents did not know, why was that? If they did know, are/were they concerned?