Michael Gove is the new Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in the new Conservative and Liberal Democrats coalition government.
Michael Gove has been the Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath since 2005 and replaces Ed Balls as Schools Secretary.
Michael Gove reportedly claimed £7,000 for furnishing a London property before ‘flipping’ his designated second home to a house in his constituency, a property for which he claimed around £13,000 to cover stamp duty.
f*** you David Cameron….taking away EMA allowance and the child benefits..you are saying you going to help us but without those money i cannot support my family bills…now hopw ami suppose to pay the bills…david cameron cares or himself
No free university for me then…
I very much doubt you’ll get a free University education from a Conservative led coalition government, but if you check their agreement you’ll see it’s kind of on the agenda. The Liberal Democrats wanted to over a 6 year period removed student fees, so I bet there’s some movement in that direction (unlikely to be free though).
Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition Government Agreement
8. Education
Schools
We agree to promote the reform of schools in order to ensure:
-that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand;
-that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and,
-that all schools are held properly accountable.
Higher education
We await Lord Browne’s final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to:
-increase social mobility;
-take into account the impact on student debt;
-ensure a properly funded university sector;
-improve the quality of teaching;
-advance scholarship; and,
-attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
If the response of the Government to Lord Browne’s report is one that Liberal Democrats cannot accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.
David
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oh isnt this just fkn great! im a single mum, with no family due to being in the care system, my son is ill and im struggling to find a childminder that can cope with my son so i can go to work, its affecting his education as even school has trouble with him, but now the schooling issue is pretty much sorted, i still cant find a childminder for me to work (i am self employed at the moment and really struggling, we need a stable income)ive also had social services on my back because i asked them for help! and what have they done???? tried to take my son away!!! they tried this after they deliberately failed to help us and deliberately failed to attend a meeting that i had set up with all the professionals involved with my son so i could try and get some help! so having proved myself, Im still in the same bloody position and now i have to contend with less financial help from the government!!! wtf is going on here?????!!!
The Tory Party: defending the rich and attacking the poor since 1678.
weve all been shafted!!! whats the bet labour would still be here if the people that were prevented from voting as 10pm came although they had been waiting for hours well before the deadline had been allowed to vote???
*******************RE-ELECTION!!!!***********************
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So are students still going to get Ema or what? Because if you stop it, I’m not going to be able to pay a bus fare of £4 every day per week to be able to get into college and still have money left for what I want to do, like see friends and things, and also pay for resources, im 16 and on minimum wage. I read an article saying that David Cameron wanted children to go to school on a Saturday because then poorer children can use resources, so your trying to help poorer children by making them cut their weekend but you wont help them financially. YOU’RE A HYPOCRITE IS ALL I CAN SAY
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Hi
Yes ema is stopping completely from June 11, and it will make it really hard for students to eat/buy books/travel to and from college, not to mention to buy a winter coat. Parents struggle with cuts in hours at work, increases in food and living, and taxes from January, and fuel prices. This govt also cutting sure starts ringfencing, and not putting the previous govts amount into building schools for the future. Tens of thousands of jobs being lost, benefits cut to bare minimum, children not being able to have the mums stay at home with them after 7 years (disgraceful) and I believe will get younger, some heart wards (and probably more un benknowned to me) closing down, people who are really poorly being made to go back to claiming jsa, a lot of people are not even able to claim job seekers for one reason or another and are not on the unemployment list even though they may be unemployed. This ema will mainly impact on LOW INCOME families, who now will have to find the cost of transport, cost of dinners (please note not subsidised and college, and even a packed lunch costs), cost of books. It is all just part of this govts way of taking of the poor. Why does he not look at the non domiciles, and self employed who have accountants to pay the minimum tax – they are all to be watched too. In our home there are days when there is no food on the table, unable to get winter shoes/coats. Times are hard. Very rarely we put heating on so we have blankets. And this is – yes – 2010 – sounds like grandparents talking. We seem to be like America more and more, students leaving uni with tens of thousands of debt and money becomes an issue, children left at home as young as 5 (whilst mothers work – and unable to afford childcare) doing housework and seeing themselves in and out to go to school. I have seen many programmes where children who have stayed at home alone in America are injured and even raped. It is so sad. It is about time students/ working classes/etc all formed a tight community and a strong pressure group. GIVE US OUR EMA BACK WE TRULY NEED IT, it is not a luxury it is a payment to help towards cost of actually going to college. There are no jobs to be had – jobs don’t even pay a decent wage. If you work full time on minimum wage you can hardly afford to support yourself with the huge cost of living, rent, council tax, heating, travel, food – what’s left to spend on clothes, leisure, going out to meet a partner, money to save for a home or to get marriage. Things haven’t half changed for the working class since this government has come in. Why should our uni rates be raised to subsidise overseas students?? Can anyone answer this?
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I think getting rid of EMA is a good idea, for months now ive been watching class mates talking about all the money they get and how they can afford to go out and buy shoes etc. Why do my parents have to pay for their shoes for goodness sake! I understand some people really do need the money but seriously, most dont. Very unfair system.
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Getting rid of EMA, ALG and Child Benefits would be one of the worst idea’s to be made alot of family’s haven’t got enough money coming in. In my case iv got a dad that’s disabled and a mother who can barely keep me and my brother going as she’s too busy looking after my dad and my brother I can take care of myself but barely. As well as where my dad got screwed over by his boss as his accident wasn’t registered he got screwed over nearly £75,000 so he cant work any more so for me to get to college the only source of money I get is EMA I get £30 a week and that goes £11.50 train fare a week and the rest towards resources I don’t even have the luxury to buy shoes or any sort of clothing as mums child benefits go towards feeding the house which is barely anything once every 4weeks we get a decent meal which mum has to save up for which is about £2.50 a week I got a job just to help bay bills and internet and T.V licenses so all the money I make goes towards the house and the EMA is the only things allowing me to be able to get to college every week.
Take Natalie’s comment for example she probably comes form a rich home so she can buy shoe’s and clothes whenever she feels like it and I understand it where she thinks its not fair with tax helping poorer people with EMA but in a way it’s a good thing as they are helping less fortunate people because if EMA, ALG and Child Benefits are stopped then there will riots all over the UK.
Yours Sincerely Jamie
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I understand how important EMA is to young people today as at 16 years old (I’m 40 now) I’d messed up my school education, (was a bit of a juvenile delinquent and spent a couple of months in a detention center) but had realised my mistake and considered staying on at school to do A-Levels (I was more than capable of them). First thing my Mother said was “I’m not paying for it” and that was the end of the conversation!
After working a couple of dead end jobs at 17 I went back into full time education, GCSE’s had just started and I did a year of GCSE’s followed by A-Levels and OU courses and eventually went to University to study genetics at 21. In hindsight I could have applied for University at 19-20, but I thought getting into Uni was harder than it actually was/is. Thought you had to be doing exceptionally well, I was shocked at the educational level of some of the students at Uni! Funnily enough my 18 year old son was home educated (never went to school) and studied OU courses at 16-18 (got EMA for doing other courses at a local collage as well) and used them to gain entry to Uni, he’s as shocked as I was almost 20 years ago with the educational level of many of the students today.
There was no EMA back then and though I could get an almost free education (OU courses cost me £10 each as I had no money and though university was free, there was student loans: I left uni just £3K extra in debt which was the student loans), to live I had to lie and say I was available for work while I was studying full-time (at one point I was doing 3 A-Levels and 2 full OU courses). Every two weeks I’d sign on as unemployed because under the last Conservative government there was no facilities for people like myself with no family financial support to study full time.
Had I not lied about being available for full time work I could not have afforded to study full time and I doubt I’d have gone to university to study genetics.
There must have been tens of thousands of perfectly capable young people denied a university level education, not because of lack of ability, but lack of financial support.
If EMA is cancelled/reduced under this Conservative/Lib Dem government I wonder how people with no parental financial support will be able to gain a university level education?
David
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The entire Government, not matter what sie of the House, is corrupted to the core, the majority of them are Freemasons, and their trick is as follows:
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
The people wont know this game we serve,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
We’ll rob the treasury and spend the purse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
We’ll play an act from Shakespeare’s curse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
We’ll all practice and reherse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
And Justice too will be adverse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
We’ll make all people’s health inverse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
Our military parasites they will disperse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
We’ll over price for students burse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
A hole in the econemy well make it worse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
We are the Nazi’s and act as Erse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Let’s all play the Turk’s Check Mate,
All the House, the Church and all the State,
And lawlessness will bring the herse,
And all we promise we shall reverse.
Who shall know this game we play,
Cept One that with the Coiyne will slay,
The House, the Church and all the state,
For acting out the Turk’s Check Mate!
Like Justice Hogg that made Madeleine McCann a Ward of Court on ‘Assumption’ that she was alive and residing in the UK, and not the fact, therefore the Government and the Judicial Law system is acting on fairy tales and not reality… Bring back the Great British Hydra – $$!
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