Under Gove and Cameron’s plans for school vouchers etc it will be far, far easier for HuT types to set up a school in a far more direct way. They say they’ll ban HuT but they probably won’t – if they did they’d have to ban scores of other organisations.

the tories are massively in favour of faith schools, extreme or otherwise – both Cameron and gove send their children to faith schools. If you think Cameron brought this up becaues of a passion for faithless schools or even because of a commitment ot govt money not going to religious types ith dodgy views, you’re barking.

At least they’ll now think twice before recycling dodgy info from the Islamophobic ‘think tank’ the CSC, the source of the error, which has got to be a good thing for this country in general.

Why does the Left not seem to care?

“The Conservatives have said they will ban the organisation if they win power.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8387063.stm

That straightens out the position of the Conservatives except that I think we should know how many other organisations the Conservatives intend to ban.

At prime ministers’ questions last week, he said the schools had received funds from a government Pathfinder fund aimed at combating violent extremism.

But it later emerged the money had come from a different government fund.

Oh, that’s all right then! Trebles all round! You don’t think that the thrust of the story was more ‘Government giving money to schools linked to Hizb-ut-Tahrir’ rather than ‘from a specific fund’? Seriously, as a killer argument ‘you got the wrong pathfinder scheme’ is beyond feeble.

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/11/30/ed-balls-is-not-fit-to-be-secretary-of-state-for-schools/

I wonder what were the contributions to this debacle of Andy Coulson, Conservative director of communications, previously editor of the News of the World, and Michael Gove, shadow education minister. It’s difficult to believe that Cameron was making the running on his own initiative all alone.