Monday, June 08, 2009

Doomed I tell ye

I know that the results are distorted by abstentionism and by the peripheral nature of European elections in the public consciousness, but whichever way you look at it, it's a disaster. There will be reams of guff all over the place, so I will just add a gentle reminder about my own special interest. Giving one million four hundred thousand voters a very good reason not to vote Labour by ending their adult education classes won't go down as a master stroke of tactical genius.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

On the other hand, Andrew Brons worked as a politics and law lecturer at Harrogate College which is part of the Hull College Group. One might argue that, not only did FE give him the financial means in the form of a regular salary to continue his long political career (which, according to the Telegraph, has its roots in first the National Socialist Movement and then the National Front) but, presumably, ample opportunity to peddle his twisted ideologies amongst generations of unsuspecting students....