Quote ="sally cinnamon"Out of the current Cabinet I actually think Gove is the most pure "ideology" politician. I would say he was like Thatcher, in that you know where you stand with him, he doesn't try to hedge his bets or be all things to all people, he has his ideological views and he states them, and I think he is totally convinced that his right wing ideology is the best for the poor as well as the rich.'"
He certainly shares the asset of not being troubled by doubt.
I'm wary of people who don't doubt.
Quote ="sally cinnamon"In education I like the fact that he is big on a core curriculum of sciences, maths, languages and history, and is wanting to try and enforce that the schools in less well off areas make their kids do that core curriculum rather than being given 'soft options'. He is quite into comparative evidence from other education systems and in the better performing ones in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe, the kids in the less well off areas are being made to do the same traditional academic subjects as the ones in the posh schools rather than being shunted off into low value 'vocational' courses that aren't valued in those vocations. I know some people say "academics aren't for everyone" and so on but the social mobility is better for kids from lower income backgrounds that have done traditional subjects. '"
The "better performing ones" in Sweden are not as "better performing" as he once thought.
In fact a licence for one of them is up for sale on the Swedish version of eBay.
Quote ="sally cinnamon"However I would be worried if Gove became Foreign Secretary. His foreign affairs ideology appears to be aligned with neo-con US republicans, he's from the school that Western market capitalism liberal democracy is the best ideology for the world and it should be spread, and Islam is a threat and we need to do more to counter Islam.'"
He has no doubt he's right.