Heads seem to have rolled all over the place since the strikes last week, and so far the Tories have lost confidence ministers all over the shop. Those in education have been celebrating as the secretary of state with special responsibility for abolishing education has joined the former secretary of state for abolishing healthcare Andrew Lansley in obscurity.
There are rumours now that their minister in charge of abolishing local government may also be out.
The current spin from the Tories is that they're trying to present a more female-friendly cabinet, by replacing Gove with an equalities minister who opposed gay marriage and wants to restrict a woman's right to choose.
Other reports suggest that it's polling data that has Cameron worried. But the reshuffle comes four days after strikes which involved more than a million workers - and which all their propaganda couldn't persuade the public to abandon support for.
Today is a great day and everyone who values public services and opposes the sickly venality of this government should rightly be happy.
But let's not pretend that they have given up. We shouldn't either. If they can, they will continue with their agenda to attack the services that our class needs and narrow the opportunities for our kids further. But we have an opportunity here, to press forward and overturn the damage they have done. We mustn't let our union leaders back down.
Support for action isn't even and it isn't everywhere, but it is significant and we can persuade our colleagues where we're prepared to argue for it. The weakness in our class is subjective, not objective. Push for more action - we have a world to win.
No comments:
Post a Comment