tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post5887798988753441059..comments2024-02-15T17:04:14.226+01:00Comments on Jane Is The One: let's bash Wokingham!janestheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-60296355100350436812010-09-04T00:05:49.178+02:002010-09-04T00:05:49.178+02:00The way I heard it, using existing council boundar...The way I heard it, using existing council boundaries was the only option the Tory Minister John Gummer could get past the county's Tory MPs and hence get through Parliament. <br /><br />The problem with creating a Greater Reading is what to do with the rumps of the councils which have lost population - particularly West Berks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-11610510220419448382010-09-03T02:12:58.609+02:002010-09-03T02:12:58.609+02:00These problems result partly from the deal made by...These problems result partly from the deal made by corrupt council leaders to keep the current authorities rather than create a Greater Reading Council.<br /><br />The Tories did hint about taking education away from local authorities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-51301473242025234032010-09-02T15:11:15.247+02:002010-09-02T15:11:15.247+02:00Pray tell me where these extra secondary places in...Pray tell me where these extra secondary places in east Reading would have been physically located? Given that Maggie and Major's Tories took the Kings Road and of the Alfred Sutton sites used by TVU out of local authority control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-26146083228730956662010-09-02T10:16:25.505+02:002010-09-02T10:16:25.505+02:00Anonymous 22:09
Maybe he's protesting at 49 y...Anonymous 22:09<br /><br />Maybe he's protesting at 49 year old Foreign Secretary’s sharing hotel bedrooms with their 25 year old "special advisors".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-2712376058456587252010-09-01T13:18:09.568+02:002010-09-01T13:18:09.568+02:00Read this article: http://www.getreading.co.uk/ne...Read this article: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/education/s/2077440_parents_livid_at_maiden_erlegh_catchment_review<br /><br />Basher Mackenzie is onto the campaign - so with his record it will fail!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-59044714885470531452010-09-01T12:20:15.840+02:002010-09-01T12:20:15.840+02:00Anonymous 8:55 Yes. Alfred Sutton was a secondary...Anonymous 8:55 Yes. Alfred Sutton was a secondary school in 1974 and was closed by Berkshire in, I believe, the 1980's and the land and buildings given to Reading Technical College (As it then was) before Margaret Thatcher nationalised colleges taking the land and buildings out of council control.<br /><br />But hey, that's over twenty years ago, Berkshire hasn't existed for 12, surely if the councillors of East Reading over that time wanted to do something about education in the area they could have. As Jane says they spent their time campaigning for Reading children to get into Wokingham schools often, as in the case of Ryeish Green, ahead of the interests of Reading pupils in Reading schools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-6682353325022431192010-09-01T11:23:42.644+02:002010-09-01T11:23:42.644+02:00I lobbied very hard for more secondary school plac...I lobbied very hard for more secondary school places in east and south Reading. This fell on deaf ears in the Labour Group, who were only interested in Reading children going to Wokingham schools. Any secondary schools money received by Reading, whether as a result of my lobbying or not, was kept right away from Reading East. There was even an attempt to deny facilities to Highdown School in north Reading following my campaigning with the school.janestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-2349424197939359122010-09-01T08:55:19.511+02:002010-09-01T08:55:19.511+02:00Berkshire County Council did not see fit to provid...Berkshire County Council did not see fit to provide sufficient secondary places for pupils living within Reading Borough, within Reading Borough. And that was the situation they handed over to Reading Borough when BCC was abolished in 1998. As you will recall. Do tell us what you did as MP for Reading East to get sufficient secondary school places provided in-Borough for East Reading children? <br /><br />Does anyone know whether Reading County Borough did have enough secondary places when it was downgraded in 1974 and education handed over to BCC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-46300904350957979242010-08-31T22:09:33.925+02:002010-08-31T22:09:33.925+02:00Nice to see someone having a proper look at some o...Nice to see someone having a proper look at some of the things which come out of the Rob White public information machine.<br /><br />A couple of posts later he is talking about going on a<br />march / demo to protest against the Conservative<br />Party Conference. Presumably he actually means "protest at" the conference as I assume that he isn't against Tories being allowed to have conferences in general.<br /><br /><br />PWT.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-72146750113864921262010-08-31T13:18:30.225+02:002010-08-31T13:18:30.225+02:00Never mind, perhaps it meant Michael not SarahNever mind, perhaps it meant Michael not Sarahjanestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-44956031127358951502010-08-31T13:01:15.364+02:002010-08-31T13:01:15.364+02:00Thanks - the point I was trying to make was that t...Thanks - the point I was trying to make was that the area has become a lot more middle class since you last pounded the pavements here. Of course, one of the best tests to see if an area is middle class is to count the number of Green councillors.<br />(And my "verification letters" spell out "palin". I am shocked!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-8255486336616980012010-08-31T12:41:35.323+02:002010-08-31T12:41:35.323+02:00I am aware of the demographic; a great many Alfred...I am aware of the demographic; a great many Alfred Sutton parents are recipients of middle-class welfare benefits and read the Guardian. My point was a general one, but applies especially to south Reading as I was talking about the Madejski Academy: Reading Labour historically wants as little to do with working-class people as possible, and prefers their children to go elsewhere to be educated. Mr Kayes, former councillor and self-hating Jew, is presumably aware of this too.janestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-15642054625143455642010-08-31T12:34:47.577+02:002010-08-31T12:34:47.577+02:00Jane, if I may, could I proffer a small piece of a...Jane, if I may, could I proffer a small piece of advice? Pupils at Alfred Sutton School have many characteristics, but being significantly "working class" is not one of them nowadays. Park Ward is much more University Junior Lecturer territory now - Guardian readers perhaps, but not exactly horny handed sons of toil.<br />No doubt Mr Peter Kayes, the Chair of Governors, will be on the case as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com