Simon Jenkins suggests that ministers in the present government are plain incompetent. It is hard not to agree as far as taking decisions are concerned. I am told that when the Council met with Michael Gove to try to save some of the education spend promised after his decision to cancel Building Schools for the Future, Sarah Teather appeared simply unaware of the potential threat to Roundwood Youth Club. Such was her lack of interest in the constituency that she is supposed to represent, that she seemed not to know that a £5 million investment in youth services had been frozen.
Similarly she seems to have done nothing to resist the cancellation of Building Schools for the Future, which directly disadvantages the pupils of Newman Catholic College or Copland School that would have benefited from the investment. That is despite it being a specific pledge in the Brent Liberal Democrats' manifesto. She also seems to be indifferent to the problems over primary school places, cuts in EMA, cuts in Early Intervention Grant and a host of other issues.
I assume that the explanation for this is that she and the rest of her party got into politics for the sake of posturing rather than achieving anything. It comes as a shock to them that their decisions are now having consequences.
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