Thread by @karamballes

1/ Worth noting that Mark Lehain director of Campaign for Common Sense was also part of the launch of Grimes Reasoned UK, you know where Starkey said slavery can't have been a genocide because there's 'so many damn blacks'

https://twitter.com/Sue_Cowley/status/1309803774391787521

2/ Mark was also in charge of the New Schools Network for a while. A "charity" created with the support of Michael Gove, using public money to support academisation and creation of free schools.
Many of those involved have financially benefitted from the academisation process.

3/ NSN was also led by Toby Young for a while when he was allowed to run schools with no relevant experience. Still stunned that Tories thought it fine to hand control of children's futures to a contrarian hack who has since written that Trump should learn from Belarus!

4/ However despite Toby and others of his ilk speaking in praise of the undemocratic leadership of Belarus, Mark and rest of the gang would complain about deplatforming and cancel culture against anyone that decided they didn't want to have to listen to their nonesense

5/ Rachel Wolf is another name attached to NSN, created with thr support of Cummings.

You have to remember that the cronyism now being seen around Covid contracts has been a constant feature of DfE since Gove and Cummings in 2010

6/ Mark and Rachel were also involved in PTE, a pressure group for academisation and marketisation in education whilst refusing to name its financial backers

schoolsweek.co.uk/vote-leave-cam…

7/ De Souza another name attached to PTE is involved with Inspiration trust who are a hoover for government contracts and funding

Could easily write a thick book about the conflicts of interest around Inspiration

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1276454783818387458?s=19

8/ Moynihan mentioned above is a venture capitalist, Tory donor, part of the opaquely funded IEA think tank.

With little accountability Tory donors have been given control of £billions of state assets.
opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-lig…

9/ Being a banker, getting given control of schools with no transparency, cutting pay and conditions for staff and financially benefiting while donating to the Tory party is actually a fast track route to a peerage, just look at unelected Lord Agnew now in the Cabinet office.

10/ Mark Lehain also stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Tory Party in GE19 and during the covid crisis has liked to appear in the media to dismiss unions safety concerns as playing politics whilst being advertised as an independent expert...

11/ The RSE guidence says teachers must speak against cancel culture and no platforming which is celebrated by the likes of Young and Lehain yet at the same time they are relishing the chance to have things they disapproved of banned

12/ I notice non of these free speech advocates spoke up when Tories tried to make the NEU take down their schoolcuts website and prevent headteachers from speaking in public about their squeezed budgets.

13/ I think the likes of Young and Lehain will be monitoring schools in hope of finding anything they can pounce on that goes against their interpretation of the RSE guidence, they will look to cancel and purge anything they disagree with.

Beware of mission creep

14/ ⬇️ How do you square this circle?⬇️

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1309962283020288000?s=19