Please note: As SoD's comments became longer and longer I suggested that he contribute his own posts which, at least, would break the tedium of my endless ruminations and provide a different perspective.
SoD Contribution:
Blighty's routine humiliations at the hands of its criminally negligent and incompetent state are now so frequent we have to number them and group them into one post to keep up with them all. Here we go ...
Britmiliation #1
Of all the criminal negligence and blue socialist degradation this government is presiding over, this is one of the worst ...
Private schools have offered to run summer catch up courses for local children, as they accuse ministers of “ignoring” their offers to assist.
Christopher King, chief executive of the Independent Association of Prep Schools, has written to the Education Secretary to express his “frustration” at the Government’s “reluctance to accept help” from fee-paying institutions.
In the letter, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, he said that members of his association were prepared to open up their buildings in July and August to run summer courses for children in their local community.
Mr King said that private schools could make a “significant difference” to the education of children in their local community by helping them get up to speed over the summer holidays, and would come at a minimal or no cost to parents.
The offer from independent schools comes amid rising concern about the plight of children during lockdown and fears that a decade of progress in narrowing the attainment gap is in danger of being reversed.
What a major wasted opportunity to show up state education for the feckless waste of money it is. To give state school parents the chance to experience top quality education and contrast it against the incompetent, lazy, unionised Marxist brainwashing their kids have had from the state thus far.
The Summer school service would have been free or trace cost. What an opportunity to fund a Summer of education and put pressure on the Left Axis and unions to say "You can be replaced - and for less money" ...
Research published earlier this week showed that more than two million children have done virtually no schoolwork during lockdown.
One in five pupils in the UK – equating to around 2.3 million children – either did no home learning at all or less than one hour a day, according to a report by University College London.
The study found that there was a huge gulf between the amount of home learning carried out by pupils at state and private schools.
Nearly a third (31 per cent) of private schools provided four or more online lessons each day, compared with just six per cent of state schools.
“In such circumstances, it is disappointing that the independent school sector’s offer of assistance has been ignored,” Mr King said in his letter to the Education Secretary.
“Given the key role that the private sector has played in the country’s response to the pandemic – such as private hospitals alleviating bed capacity issues and private industry tackling the shortfall in ventilators – the Government’s reluctance to accept help from the private education sector is even more frustrating.”
Once again the Dombo demonstrates its true blue socialist DNA: eschewing the private sector, like they did early on in the crisis for testing, tracing, bed capacity, and ventilators, and then in denial of the efficacy of these solutions they refuse state school children the chance of a free or low cost private schooling catch-up.
It's like Dombo actually wants a future generation of BLM supporting ignoramuses.
Well that's it in a nutshell of course - they are blue socialists after all, and therefore part of the Left Axis.
Britmiliation #2
The Jerries have mastered the "new normal" with their test, track, trace and targeted lockdown mechanism, having listened to and watched South East Asia and China ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/27/europe-looks-germany-outbreak-set-template-new-normal/
More than 640,000 people are back under lockdown in Germany this weekend as Europe faces its first major test in containing fresh outbreaks after lockdowns were lifted.
The German R number, which briefly spiked to 2.88 last Sunday, has since dropped back to 0.57, a significant relief.
Well let's see what Dombo's "world class" test, track, trace and targeted lockdown system is made of as the results of this week's beach and party fests feed into the pandemic.
Another Britmiliation at the hands of the state no doubt.
SoD
"To give state school parents the chance to experience top quality education and contrast it against the incompetent, lazy, unionised Marxist brainwashing their kids have had from the state thus far."
Exactly so. Over here it is framed as "School Choice". Republicans and a majority of Blacks support it while Democrats and teachers unions are fighting it tooth and nail. Yet Blacks continue to vote as usual.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 12:37
Your second "fail" is behind a paywall but I saw this: "Sir Mark Sedwill could be removed as head of the Civil Service as early as this week in shake-up by Number 10". Is that a step in the right direction?
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 13:11
Sadly, not really, Whiters.
Dombo is merely centralising control of the means of production and distribution more closely to themselves. And then extending control with yet more public expenditure through their new tight-knit politburo.
BoJo and Cummings haven't run so much as a whelkstall in their lives, they're no Bill Gates, Alan Sugar, or Richard Branson.
The frequency and intensity of farcical decision-making is only likely to increase.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 18:33
Britmiliation #3
Your communist government has banned us Yanks from entering your borders using the Democrat hoax Kung Flu as an excuse. By God, we are Americans and exceptional in every way. We have been given the go ahead by All That Is Holy to get just as sick as we damn well please! It's in the Constitution!
But you smart Brits have been packing beaches and celebrating "football" victories in huge crowds, and you'll soon be begging to come over here where a high fever and difficulty breathing means LIBERTY instead of just cold blankets and a plastic tube stuck down your throats. Your comeuppance is nigh!
Posted by: Bob | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 21:25