Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)
“Finsberg talks for a half-hour with the soulless precision of a politician who has been too well briefed. He concentrates almost entirely on the teachers’ rejection of a new pay and promotion package three days ago and their refusal to go to arbitration.
No-one makes the pithy point that if this package is so wonderful, why wasn’t it offered eight months ago? The questions from the floor come, for the first half-hour, from articulate, organised opposition, whether Labour Party members or teache...rs, and Finsberg quite happily deals with them. They’re his own breed after all.
Driven by fear that he will go away with the impression (that he so wants to go away with) that we parents are being innocently led to the slaughter by a militant, unionised minority, I stand up at the end and ask him why he thinks Sir Keith Joseph is so generally and universally disliked and mistrusted by teachers of all shades of opinion.MoreLess
No-one makes the pithy point that if this package is so wonderful, why wasn’t it offered eight months ago? The questions from the floor come, for the first half-hour, from articulate, organised opposition, whether Labour Party members or teache...rs, and Finsberg quite happily deals with them. They’re his own breed after all.
Driven by fear that he will go away with the impression (that he so wants to go away with) that we parents are being innocently led to the slaughter by a militant, unionised minority, I stand up at the end and ask him why he thinks Sir Keith Joseph is so generally and universally disliked and mistrusted by teachers of all shades of opinion.MoreLess
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