Michael Gove shown up on Radio 5

[osymandus]

Ignoring the callers points and trying to twist the argument to fit his own without listening to what the caller is actually saying .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12171281

And he is the educational secretary .

 

[number11]

Only listened to the first minute as am at work, but my first indication was that it makes a refreshing change that the caller seemed quite articulate, intelligent and even handed. Usually those calling into radio shows come across as absolute morons, which is why I never listen to the football phone ins anymore, and would far rather a decent interviewer question a subject than the 'public'......

 

[osymandus]

Totally agree and yes verbally he was more then a match for teh minister and corrected him later in the interviewer for interrupting him. The caller makes many sensible points that I have heard teachers talk about and the idea I've mentioned a little while ago that the economy is a product of education not vis versa . And Children must be encouraged to learn what they are good at .
Gove makes the mistake of assuming this man is saying that because he encourages arts he is automatically opposed to the more traditional subjects , of which he is not and keeps correcting him .

Gove has a binary mentality to education sadly its one thing or the other , it is shown up very well in this debate.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Gove didn't exactly help himself by coming across as a pompous, ignorant ****wit, constantly contradicting himself and talking over the guest and being thoroughly disrespectful.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Ignoring the callers points and trying to twist the argument to fit his own without listening to what the caller is actually saying .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12171281

And he is the educational secretary .

Gove is an arrogant idiot and quite possibily the worst person to hold this post since Thatcher(the milk snatcher).

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Ignoring the callers points and trying to twist the argument to fit his own without listening to what the caller is actually saying .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12171281

And he is the educational secretary .

Who'd have thought a politician answering a different question to the one asked? Bet no-one's ever done that before.

Gove is an arrogant idiot and quite possibily the worst person to hold this post since Thatcher(the milk snatcher).

Define worst person - are we talking about drowning kittens or ability to do the job?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Who'd have thought a politician answering a different question to the one asked? Bet no-one's ever done that before.



Define worst person - are we talking about drowning kittens or ability to do the job?

The latter.But Mrs T.certainly had something of the former about her.:winking:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The latter.

In which case I can only assume you're distinguishing between the Secretary of State for Education and the Secretary of State for Education and Skillz, a post which was filled by the likes of Estelle Morris, Ruth Kelly and Alan Johnson.

 

[pickledseal]

Gove didn't exactly help himself by coming across as a pompous, ignorant ****wit, constantly contradicting himself and talking over the guest and being thoroughly disrespectful.

Totally agree. Just listened to it on BBC now. I am bloody worried about what he is going to do with my job...

 

[osymandus]

Who'd have thought a politician answering a different question to the one asked? Bet no-one's ever done that before.



Define worst person - are we talking about drowning kittens or ability to do the job?

Just in this case a more spectacularly bad way and being taken to task by the questioner :D

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

In which case I can only assume you're distinguishing between the Secretary of State for Education and the Secretary of State for Education and Skillz, a post which was filled by the likes of Estelle Morris, Ruth Kelly and Alan Johnson.

Estelle Morris,as a former teacher herself,would IMO have made an excellent Minister, if she'd had a bit more confidence in her ability.Unfortunately that'a a quality which both Ruth Kelly and Alan Johnson have rather too much of ,again IMO.