The blob strikes again. A video called Gove vs Reality is doing the rounds, taking pot shots at Michael Gove’s education policies, or ‘challenging his assumptions and the evidence he advances to support his approach’ as the producers put it. It’s had nearly 50,000 views so far, but is there any truth in it?
With absurdly dramatic music, handpicked headlines and sound bites from the likes of Tom Watson, one might think that Michael Gove has been a complete disaster. Well, not surprisingly, there are a few untruths in the video:
- Gove has taken too many ‘urgency pills’ — shock, a minister who wants to get something done! As Matthew d’Ancona says in his excellent book on the coalition, the government is operating on the basis ‘we may only be here for five years, so let’s behave as if that’s all the time we’ve got’.
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