Tory Education Policy in Tatters

                                     Tories in Chaos over Education in Kent


David Cameron’s Brave New Education Policy was in tatters today.

Shot to pieces from within his own Party by Cllr Carter leader of Kent County Council and boss of the country’s largest Education Authority.

Cameron’s bright idea for the Big Society of parents having the freedom to set up schools in opposition to local authority schools may have been a great sound bite at the time, but under scrutiny from the very people who will have to implement such a policy they soon realised it was a nightmare.

Cllr Carter quickly saw that the simple arithmetic taught in all his County’s Primary schools didn’t add up under Cameron. He realised that setting up private schools in the County would cut his own education budget in a big way and reduce his empire of 600 schools across Kent at a stroke.

Would expose hundreds of local authority schools in the County to closure and threaten thousands of teachers, teaching assistants, cooks and cleaners with redundancy .His education empire would be under siege from day 1 if Cameron’s proposal were ever given oxygen to survive beyond the election campaign.

Carter’s feeble attempts late today to reconcile his earlier comments on Tory education policy with the Party Spokesman Michael Gove confirming for everyone just how fatally he has torpedoed below the waterline Cameron’s new flagship policy . How the call for a Big Society is in reality just Orwellian double speak for once more establishing Little Britain in the shires.

The voters of Folkestone & Hythe may have had very few reasons to thank Cllr Carter since he came to office, but at least his candide remarks today deserve their praise.

He has truly shown us all what the future holds for education in Kent if the Tories were to return to Government on the 7th May. Cuts in our primary schools, cuts in the budgets for the Academies and redundancies across the whole teaching spectrum .

                                            All to fund the next Big Thing.


              Parent power for the privileged few and run down schools for everyone else.