Chair Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Democratic Socialist, Environmentalist, Pro-EU, LGBT+, email: sandyofipswich@gmail.com
Jun 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Just attended SEND workshop with @suffolkcc looking at new Green Paper. Good news is - Govt recognise that the system is failing our children- it’s not just Suffolk, over half of all authorities are failing SEND children. Govt & Local Authorities & schools have all got to improve
Bad news is - although Green Paper identifies “aspirations” it doesn’t provide adequate solutions. In particular, we need 1) far greater powers for local authorities to direct and where necessary intervene in academy schools (not sure that current plans will do) @NEUnion
Nov 9, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The point is that you can’t establish the validity of a proposition by getting people to vote on it - if 54% did not accept that 13 was the square root of 169 it wouldn’t stop it from being true. What democracy does is show what the majority feel- if they feel that they are being
...ignored then those who have decision-making powers need to work out how to re-engage with those people. Trump supporters haven’t suddenly stopped supporting him. Brexit voters haven’t suddenly started to feel sympathetic to the EU. There is a huge piece of work to do in US and
