The Speaker has ordered Ed Balls to the Chamber to answer questions about the whole Sats debacle. The question is who will enjoy watching Michael Gove skewer Balls more, Tory MPs or Balls’s enemies on the Labour benches.
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anon
July 22nd, 2008 11:29amJames, what time is Balls on please?
Chris SE9
July 22nd, 2008 11:36amGove is so repellant, it will be a close run thing.
NorthernJohn
July 22nd, 2008 11:39amChris SE9 - I couldn't disagree more. Gove is excellent - analytical, unflappable, human.
Pat49
July 22nd, 2008 11:41amTime to scrap the Tory idea of SATS completely. It's a total waste of time and money. And the reason pupils will be largely unaffected when moving on to secondard school is that the teachers' assessments are accurate and reliable and decisions can be made with confidence based on them.
A Gover
July 22nd, 2008 11:47amChris SE9, a very strange view. It's hard to dislike Gove, unless you're being roasted by him. As I hope that toerag Balls will be soon.
James Forsyth
July 22nd, 2008 11:50amBalls should be on a little after half one.
Faceless Bureaucrat
July 22nd, 2008 11:58amMy, my - we seem to have a lot of Labourhome posters rushing to the rescue of Ed 'Cajones' over here at the moment. Burn him up, Michael, the b****** deserves it...
Travis Bickle
July 22nd, 2008 12:28pmOh dear Pat49, how predictable that, when NuLab screw something up as they always do, it's Ok it was a Tory idea anyway.
Remind me which lot has been in government for 11 years?
James
July 22nd, 2008 12:29pmMy only surprise is that Speaker Martin has had the temerity to ask a Minister from his own party to answer question in Parliament. What ever will he do next?
Austin Barry
July 22nd, 2008 12:37pmChris SE9, why the problem with Gove? He is bright, personable and makes sense on a number of issues from education to Islamism. Balls on the other hand has given testicular fortitude a bad name.
Chuck Unsworth
July 22nd, 2008 1:03pmInteresting if, as you say, Balls has been 'ordered' to attend by Speaker Martin. That might imply a certain reluctance on the Minister's part - hardly surprising in view of his resolute stance to date that it is the QCA's responsibility, and that he merely directs from the lofty heights.
Then again, I can't think of a single Minister who has accepted responsibility for anything at all - starting from the Prime Minister and working downwards.
Trumpeter Lanfried
July 22nd, 2008 1:51pmMmm. Speaker finds balls.
Verity
July 22nd, 2008 2:22pmFaceless Bureaucrat and others on other threads, if you are going to use a foreign word - and even draw special attention to the fact that you're using it by placing it in quotation marks, for God's sake write the correct word. It's cojones. Jeez.
Hysteria
July 22nd, 2008 7:30pmcojones shmojones