"May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's Communities Minister #MichaelGove said on Friday he will step down as a member of parliament ahead of the July 4 general election."
@Sarahw My late uncle, who went to a fee-paying school and was an academic, once called michael #gove "A cnt that has no place being anywhere near education". It was a beautiful thing to hear. Like being told to fck off by Stephen fry.
Throughout this article, Michael Gove conflates anti-zionism with antisemitism and implies that all Jews are zionists and/or pro Israel.
It's the first shot in a new culture war, by using Jewish people to ban organisations fighting for the rights of Palestinians.
Gove himself is cynically weaponising antisemitism.
Another #Brexit 'benefit' that was entirely predictable that #UK government chose to ignore. Shortages of some medicines IS the new norm. There MUST be a #PublicInquiry and the criminals that forced this country out of the #EU held accountable. #Johnson#Gove#Cummings and cohorts should have faced serious criminal charges rather than rewarded for their wrongdoing. By rights they should all be in jail.
The sorriest aspect of this latest effort from Minister of Propaganda Vote Leave #Gove is the manner in which the utterly cowed & servile National Broadcaster dutifully trailed it for a week in advance, under instruction to prep it's audience for the big reveal. #BBC news is not fit for purpose. It should never again be reduced to the servant & mouthpiece of a ruling party. Root & branch reform is required.
Lord Mann, the blowhard who brought down Ken Livingston, is pontificating about the new definition of #Extremitism referencing the old definition, completely ignorant of the new details #Gove has set out.
When three previous #Tory Home Secretaries including even Priti #Patel think that #Gove’s extremism plans are dangerous then you know this is the desperate, nasty death throes of a politically spent party…
Currently the government defines #extremism as "vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs"
Wonder how the odious Michael #Gove intends to change this?
I’m not going take this article seriously enough to critique the shite. But it’s interesting that the #Guardian really can’t help itself. Coverage of the SNP conference cursory, but in an edition of the paper that also has a full article outlining Gove’s mendacity and incompetence they publish this. There will be no discussion.
"Uniquely, except for two interruptions of less than a year, he has been a cabinet member continuously since 2010. Education, Brexit, levelling up, housing, farming, the environment, prisons, PPE contracts, party discipline, relations between the central and devolved governments, the coordination of Whitehall: Gove has been involved in all these at a high level.
...sometimes his activities have been secretive and open to question... "
Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw—
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!
Guess what - Gove was lying on his ‘need for coal’. Pesky government reports or maybe he just didn't have time to read them while looking down the sofa for ‘Brexit Benefits’.