Pardon my French
On the matter of Alan Johnson whirling on a six-pence over the issue of faith schools and their (non-)admittance of heathen students, we have this from the Education Secretary:
We’ve made enough progress through the voluntary route that we don’t need the blunt instrument of legislation.
We don’t need the blunt instrument of legislation? If you’ll permit me, that’s a bit fucking rich.
Posted on October 27th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
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Good god, but the man is a horrible little turd.
“…the Muslim schools[...] have a policy where they want between 20% and 25% of pupils to be from outside of the Muslim faith,” he added.
Try to make nice with Muslims with a bit of flattery, makes a change from the usual fear-mongering and demonising, and prove your point at the same time. Except there’s only 8 Islamic schools in England (UK?), while there are 4,646 C of E and 20041 Catholic schools out there, according to the handy little box further down the BBC article.
Meanwhile, those cooky Catholics:
The Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols, described Mr Johnson’s proposed amendment as “ill-thought-out, unworkable, contradictory of empirical evidence and deeply insulting”.
The fact that this is standard policy at Muslim schools, and so presumably works well overall, must be one of those miracle things. No, hang on…
No quote from the C of E, but since they outnumber the other schools combined I think we can guess.
And he spins this as if the result is an improvement over the initial proposal?