The Full English with Alexander Brown - Episode 87 - And it all falls down
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00:00 [Music]
00:27 Hello and welcome to Full English, a show that combines politics with hopefully not being in a building at risk of collapse.
00:34 The same can't be said for British schools, with hundreds having unsafe concrete and many flagged to the government as needing repairs as far back as 2010.
00:44 Let's get into it.
00:46 This week Rishi Sunak reassured a nation by saying only 95% of schools were impacted by this, meaning just 1 in 20 could have collapsed on children.
00:56 This was followed by the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan doing her best Thick of It impression by asking a journalist who had the temerity to ask her why schools were in such disarray
01:07 "Why nobody ever says, 'You dunnan'" - and I'm changing it here - "effing good job because everyone else has sat on their... behind and done nothing."
01:17 I don't know about you, but I'm reassured. Are you reassured? I think we're all reassured.
01:23 Confronted over the scandal at PMQs, the Prime Minister accused Labour of never mentioning the fall, which was a lie - it was in Keir Starmer's summer speech on education, which was all of two months ago -
01:33 and then tried to talk about lockdowns, because he's got no excuses.
01:37 Look, if my government had cut the school repairs budget by £2.2 billion, I'd probably want to talk about something else too.
01:44 Still, not onto a general election, eh lads?
01:48 So what have we learned? Firstly, that Labour is to blame for consecutive Tory governments making cuts - apparently.
01:55 And secondly, not how many schools have the concrete in Scotland, because they're still working it out.
02:00 Until next time, I've been Alexander Brown, and terribly, terribly worried.
02:06 [Music]
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