[ubuntu-uk] EDM179: Response From Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education and Skills

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi,

> Even worse: it's exactly the same response I got from Jim Knight, which
> you can read at
> http://tibsplace.co.uk/blog/index.php/2006/12/20/free-software-in-schools/
> 
> That's terrible!

It may be terrible but is it surprising.  They bleat on about voter
apathy and low election turnout while they sit comfortable in their
leather chairs and do as little as possible.

I suppose we have only ourselves to blame - there are a lot of
'campaigners' out there all to willing to mail a pre-written form letter
to their MP.

This is why we need PR, when there's a bit of a lottery and no such
thing as a 'safe' seat, they might work a bit harder.  They don't want
PR while it serves them.  It is interestiing that the opposition parties
always seem to be more in favour or PR than the party in power.

Vote for me - I wouldn't treat my constituents with contempt, no sir
never :-)

Ow!! that's the problem with soap boxes, I always slip on the soap and
bang my head :-)

TTFN



D
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> 
> On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:39 +0000, James Tait wrote:
> > Me again,
> > 
> > > I think I need to read through it a few more times and annotate it
> to
> > > There are also parts in there that
> > > I recognise from somewhere (e.g. "measured inclusion rather than
> blanket
> > > exclusion"), so maybe the response is just a re-iteration of
> official
> > > policy.
> > 
> > Sorry to respond to my own post, but I just realised why it all seems
> so
> > familiar -- it's almost word-for-word what's in the official press
> > statement in response to the EDM:
> > 
> >   http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=26062
> > 
> > Essentially it's a fob-off.
> > 
> > JT
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