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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Feb 09, 2026 1:29 pm Yep. Free schools are of much greater interest to them. If they're worried that the local school might not appreciate the unique genius of their kids.

Hence their enthusiasm for the thick-as-shit goblin Gove, apart from the fact that he was a journalist, so omerta and all that. Free schools offered them private education paid for by somebody else. Cheers!

Children with special needs in England will keep current support, minister says
Georgia Gould reassures parents that no child will be asked to leave school or have levels of assistance removed

This is either a very rash promise or a commitment to quite a lot of extra spending, given all the barriers put up by the current system. But whatever, it's never going to satisfy the demands made of it.

I wish Georgia Gould and Bridget Philiphson well with this. Another shit sandwich left by the Tories so they could sit back and watch Labour get torn to shreds by the left. "The real issue is a wealth tax and dividends paid by water companies", they said, for the hundredth week running.

This where we need the input of Fozzy, previously. of this parish.

I miss Fozzy.

Here's what's happening.


https://schoolsweek.co.uk/government-to ... -deficits/

Government to write off 90% of councils’ SEND deficits

Local authorities will get a grant to cover all but 10% of historic deficits accrued by the end of 2025-26

They must have been working on this for a while, because £5bn is a not inconsiderable amount of money to find. No wonder the Government were pissed off with the focus on Starmer's position. This is a bit more than announcing breakfast clubs for the 97th time, or reheated Milibandism, or whatever those clever "wonk" media types call it. Also an extra £440m for the poorest areas. (Final formula due this week).

The Tory media used to be lukewarm towards Cameron a lot of the time, but when he said "Green crap" or whatever, they'd at least rouse their readers a bit with how the government was "starting to sound a bit Conservative at long last". Perhaps the liberal media might take a leaf out of that book but probably won't.