Govt own commissioned research into grammar in the primary school - abandoned? If so, why?

What if the Dept for Education commissioned research on whether teaching formal grammar to primary school children produced better writing. They had a huge sample : 600 schools. But the results didn't come out showing what the govt wanted it to show. What would the govt do? 

Abandon it and disappear it of course. 

Can this be true????????

Transcript of meeting between Cameron and the EU ministers

The French minister begins the meeting:

French Minister: Qu'est-ce que t'as fait, con?
[Literal translation: What've you done, twat?
Interpreter: A bit of a surprising result there, Prime Minister?

Cameron: Yes indeed, Boris the Bastard's f***ed it.
Interpreter: Boris est un peu compliqué, comme type. 
[Literal: Boris is a little bit complicated as a guy. ]

Minister: C'est foutu à cause de toi.
[Literal: It's screwed, thanks to you.]
Interpreter: We're going to come through this.

etc etc etc

Statement from the Chancellor: "Markets, calm down, calm down. Please."

Good morning, Markets.

You will have noticed that the MP, rugby player and lunatic Boris Johnson has convinced enough people that leaving the EU will rid the country of dandruff and jonny foreigner. Of course you're jonny foreigner and that's not my attitude at all. Not at all.

First, can I say, calm down. Calm down. Please.

That's how we politicians talk to the Markets, isn't it? You have to do your work, and if it involves shipping billions out of the country, then you have to do it. We all believe in the Markets, don't we? The Markets are good.  You're good. Just calm down a bit, OK?

What I'm trying  to do is make sure that the MP, rugby player and lunatic Boris Johnson is not going to be in charge in a few months time. This is going to be tricky because a majority of the people voted for the thing that Boris asked them to vote for. They didn't vote for my thing.

Calm down, calm down.

We are the natural party of government. We know what we're doing. Boris doesn't. But we do.

And we're united. We're one party.

Calm down.

Leaked letter from Henry MP to Corbyn

Dear Jeremy

You can't imagine how much soul-searching I've been through but, with great sadness and regret, I have to tell you that I'm resigning from the Shadow Cabinet. Just in case you don't know who I am, I'm the one with the curly hair who sits on the end. I often wear a checked jacket.

Can I say how sorry I am that you may well have heard about my resignation before receiving this letter? That's because, amazingly, the moment I spoke to someone at Newsnight about it, the media were after me like a pack of hounds. Just so as you know, I've only appeared on nine news outlets so far.

I think you're an honest person, but I've come to the sad conclusion that there really isn't much hope for honesty in politics. What we need are people who offer the country strong leadership and that doesn't always fit snugly with honesty.

Which brings me to the Remain campaign. We desperately needed someone who could lay to one side any reservations he had about the EU and instead pretend to have a huge, unswerving enthusiasm. This would have chimed with the electorate who we have to listen to, and who have told us over and over again that they are fed up with the EU.

And immigration. We really have to have a grown-up conversation about immigration. This means growing up and talking about immigrants. You live in your Westminster bubble and I don't suppose you've ever really seen an immigrant. Well, I can tell you a thing or two about immigrants.

I think it's vital at this time that someone stands up to David Cameron. We need to come up with a new narrative for people that chimes with what they think about immigrants.

You may be surprised to know that in the end I couldn't bring myself to vote Remain, and I voted with Gisela for Brexit. We met Nigel Farage on the evening of the count and I think we in the Labour Party I love so much have got a lot to learn from him.

That said, I think there's a lot to be said for coming up with a new narrative that takes us back into the EU and I will support any leader who advocates that policy.

At any moment now, the Chilcot report will be published and it's vital that we all stick together supporting the great Labour leaders of the past. I may be being a bit previous here, but I fear that's a job that you are quite simply not up to.

Anyway, that's it for now. If you have any ideas on how we can get the members in the party to stop supporting you, could you, in the interests of the party, tell us?

Very best
Henry
ps I haven't been meeting up with Peter Mandelson in the last few days in the Feathers.

McCluskey re Corbyn and the coup

"It seems clear that this coup would have been launched irrespective of the referendum result," he writes. "Anyone who thinks remain would have won the vote if Jeremy Corbyn had told traditional Labour areas that all was well with the EU and with globalisation is living in a dream world. It is easier to do that from an oligarch's yacht or a bank boardroom than it is in our de-industrialised cities and towns. In fact, Corbyn was honest and straightforward about a complex question."

The Politician Wakes Up

Today I will tell the people
how people are bad for people.
I will them that when they see people
on the move
they should be afraid.
I will tell them to trust me.
I will tell them to trust me
with money.
I know how good it is.
I will tell the people that money
is good.
I will tell them that I know
how to handle people and money.
I will tell them that
people will be stopped at the border.
Money can move how it wants.
People with money are good.
I will not tell them about money
moving out.
I know that money moving out
is not good.
I know that money moving out
is bad for people.
But I won't say that.
I will only talk about people moving
and how bad that is.
People will listen to me
and will like me.
I will become powerful.
And people with money
will say I am good.

Now's the time for making up myths

Now is the time for exaggerations
and generalisations
starting with the idea that
the whole nation voted one way or the other
when in fact it was 52:48.
(I didn't vote because I was no more prepared to
vote for a Europe with walls round it
than for a UK with walls round it)
Next up is to pretend that all the people
of this or that kind voted one way rather than other:
so: now we pretend that all old people voted one way
or all young people voted one way
or all working class people voted one way
or all northerners voted one way
or all southerners voted one way
or all Scots, or Welsh or Northern Ireland voted one way.
It's all journalistic rubbish
repeated by politicians with axes to grind.
It's one of the least generalisable elections
of all time.
But we have to listen to hours and hours
of people making up myths
talking porkies
in an attempt to prove the unprovable.
Today is a new day
and we still have to face how to fight austerity
and we still have to face how to fight those
who claim that life would be better if the UK
either restricted immigration or got rid of migrants.
False solutions coming from the mouths of
false prophets,
claiming to be on the side of 'the people'
even as they do all they can to impoverish
'the people'
claiming to be against elites
even as they themselves come from the elite.