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From clenched-teeth blistering rants against the politics of this 'ere little country to the minutiae of my life that few people would otherwise know about or regard, to fiction and poetry and reflections, it's all here.
This is my little free speech spot, y'see, and I reserve the right to be as self-indulgent as I so please.
Gaudeo vos hic adesse, comrades.
(It means welcome.)
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Nicholas Clegg, shame on you,
But I'm not letting Cameron through!
The BSF- shoddily organised, shoddily cut.
Posted 07-28-2010 at 11:06 by Generation Zero
Yes, so the BSF programme was costly and inefficient in the first place (largely because it relied on contracting private companies rather than relying on a direct public investment in school building.)
Whilst Michael Gove had a fair point about waste, the way in which the BSF has been mutilated is inexcusable.
Rather than looking at what schools didn't actually need rebuilding, they cut the ones costing the most, where the least compensation would have to be given to contractors for work already completed. As a result, schools across Britain have been left with crumbling, deceprit war-era buildings, and many in Portakabins. This fate would have befallen my own school had Kensington and Chelsea Council not been funding the rebuild instead of the BSF.
Ironically enough, the school that Cameron hoped would form the flagship for his 'free schools' initiative is being cut. And in addition, the money is there. It is merely being channelled into free school programmes- a blatant assault on working class children who will meanwhile be being educated in ramshackle buildings- if they're lucky enough to have buildings still.
Whilst Michael Gove had a fair point about waste, the way in which the BSF has been mutilated is inexcusable.
Rather than looking at what schools didn't actually need rebuilding, they cut the ones costing the most, where the least compensation would have to be given to contractors for work already completed. As a result, schools across Britain have been left with crumbling, deceprit war-era buildings, and many in Portakabins. This fate would have befallen my own school had Kensington and Chelsea Council not been funding the rebuild instead of the BSF.
Ironically enough, the school that Cameron hoped would form the flagship for his 'free schools' initiative is being cut. And in addition, the money is there. It is merely being channelled into free school programmes- a blatant assault on working class children who will meanwhile be being educated in ramshackle buildings- if they're lucky enough to have buildings still.
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Micheal Gove said on Television and the Schools Minister said in the house that the money IS NOT being channeled into Free Schools.
The money is pre-empting budget cuts and when you are going to have to cut, you can't let building projects go ahead and then suddenly cut their budgets.Posted 07-28-2010 at 16:29 by kylet15 
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That's exactly what they did.
Posted 07-28-2010 at 18:59 by Generation Zero
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No, they cut projects before they began to build.Quote:Originally Posted by Generation Zero
That's exactly what they did.Posted 07-29-2010 at 09:53 by kylet15
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How do you explain the school existing in Portakabins, then?
Posted 07-29-2010 at 17:14 by Generation Zero
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Many schools have portakabins without any building work being ongoing.Quote:Originally Posted by Generation Zero
How do you explain the school existing in Portakabins, then?
Posted 07-29-2010 at 19:57 by Lord Bellingcroft
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Indeed, the ones my school used while the new one was being built (by BSFQuote:Originally Posted by Lord Bellingcroft
Many schools have portakabins without any building work being ongoing.
) we used portakabins - each class room had more room and couldn't hear the next class room because they were seperated by the main door and store rooms or toilets.
Fantastic.Posted 07-30-2010 at 23:24 by Andy 
