Former Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis has said he is unable to get a job – or an interview – in teaching because his political views are held in “disdain” by the Left-wing profession. The Telegraph has the story.
Jonathan Gullis, who was a teacher before he entered Parliament in 2019, said he believed he had failed to get an interview for a teaching role because most people in the teaching profession treat Tories with “disdain”.
Mr. Gullis was elected the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North as part of Boris Johnson’s 2019 landslide, but lost his seat in July.
Before he entered the Commons he worked as a teacher at a number of schools, including the Fairfax Academy in Sutton Coldfield, north of Birmingham.
His experiences mirror those of defeated MPs and ministers in 1997, when the Tories lost to Sir Tony Blair’s party.
Mr. Gullis told Times Radio: “It’s nearly three months now and I’m still without a job, right? And that’s scary. I’m a father of a four year-old and a two year-old. I’ve got a wife who’s extremely supportive.
“I was a teacher before and I’ve applied for a few jobs and sadly not even had an interview yet. So actually, I think the days when being an ex-MP was something that was wanted or desired is no longer. I think we’re now seen as a problem. And so that’s a challenge.”
Asked whether the problem was that he was a Tory, Gullis said:
When I entered teaching it was always slightly more centre-Left leaning, but I always felt that it was fair.
When I left the profession to enter Parliament I felt that being a Conservative was something that was treated with disdain, and I do think there are a lot of schools that will see who I used to represent, and maybe my views which they may not like, and because of that – not because of what I can do as a teacher – but because of that I won’t even be given an interview.
I think that’s a damning indictment on the profession that I do love and do care about, but sadly if you’re going to have too many activists in the classroom, which I do think we have at this time, then politics is going to sadly determine who’s allowed to work in that profession.
This is not good for pupils, it’s not good for parents, but is particularly bad for pupils because they need teachers to be coming to deliver high-quality education. Not pursuing the very woke agenda that sadly has entrenched many of our education sectors.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/09/nigel-farage-wrong-if-tories-move-right-out-for-20-years/
What Kamal Ahmed fails to understand is that the ‘Faragistas’ are the centre and those of us in that space will be glad to see the back of the Tories for twenty years if not for good. Their treachery should never be forgotten and never forgiven. The guy is totally out of touch.
Could his name give a clue to his thoughts ?
Good point Freddy.
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Brexit
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Trump
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Boris
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Farage.
There’s a pattern here. I wonder if I’m the only one to spot it….
I think you might be on to something Neil. 😀😀
Tories haven’t been around since Cameron became party leader. Coincidence?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-covid-part-11-the-great-pcr-fraud/
This is an absolute belter.
Paul Weston’s series on the C1984 Scamdemic part 11 – links to previous articles embedded – absolutely rips a gaping hole in the PCR testing regime. His assessment is brutal but nothing that the majority here at DS had already realised.
“AFTER the pace of deaths driven by the Great Care Home Cull in spring 2020 showed down, the government switched to positive PCR tests to drive the Covid Pandemic. These tests were dishonest and fraudulent.”
“If 100,000 tests returned 10,000 positive results, the true positive number would be 7,700 (10,000 positive tests minus 2,300 false positives).” Not necessarily. That is not what false positive means. You have to take into account the amount of positives out there. If everybody in the group did have covid then everybody would be 100% positive no false positives and that is that. It is when nobody has covid in the group, then there will be 2300 false positives. Two extremes- reality is somewhere in between. It means that in the summer of 2020 locking down Leicester was a waste of time. In the winter more accurate, although who really knows with cross-contamination etc/
It’s called Bayes theorem. I think Hancock admitted so much.
Thanks 👍
A couple of other points though :
1. The testing cycle was always above 25 and usually 35 or 45, levels considered too high to be valid.
2. The PCR test was not designed for diagnostics although in view of the above largely irrelevant.
It was still a con.
https://thecritic.co.uk/rishi-sunak-losing-will-be-a-blessed-relief/
This is the problem with the commentariat, they don’t understand and so their analyses lack true depth. Compare this piece to Paul Weston’s article to appreciate the good from the also-rans.
“Perhaps Sunak’s sudden resignation, and the conspicuous clearing out of all the silly-ass dross around him, would save a few seats. I don’t think he is an evil man. He is a privileged man, privileged in a way that removes him completely from the life experience of virtually everyone, including those with conventional wealth. His political inheritance was atrocious.”
Sunak is an evil man, a deeply evil man. He has no allegiance to this country and so cares not a jot for the conditions of its people. If he was not evil Nut Zero would have been nuked on Day One with an end to all immigration on Day Two but rather than deal with the greatest issues facing this country since WWII he has allowed both to get worse. These matters cannot be written off as incompetence because that would imply he at least tried. The reality is he has encouraged both. He is a failure, a completely useless, abject failure who centuries ago would have lost his head for his treason. Let’s call a spade a spade – he’s evil. He’s a traitor.
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https://miriaf.co.uk/stop-starmer/
An excellent article by Miri which decidedly skewers the “don’t vote” brigade and why it is so dangerous. Bottom line if not voting damaged the establishment they wouldn’t allow it.
“Your vote does matter, and that’s why “they” try so hard to sway who you vote for, including and especially encouraging you not to vote at all, because this is the top way of ensuring their desired candidate (Starmer in this instance) walks in.
Directly rigging an election by removing or adding votes is highly illegal and therefore very risky. Convincing people not to vote, however, is neither illegal nor does it carry any risk.
So that’s the “rigging” strategy they opt for – because convincing someone not to vote has the same effect as ensuring an additional vote for the lead candidate.”
Going back to my post last night about the amount of ‘Useful Idiots’ that are thick as sh*t, and have proven this to be the case time and again. A classic example here, if you haven’t seen the short clip already, have a watch. This lady thinks Israel is a Muslim country and didn’t know you’d get launched off a roof if you were openly gay in Palestine. But even stupid people have strength in numbers, worryingly;
”Since the wave of hate marches, student encampments and other protests began after October 7, social media has been full of examples of jaw-dropping ignorance about Israel and the Middle East that only a determinedly stupid person could embrace. As Martin Luther King Jr famously remarked, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
The entire Queers for Palestine movement, for example, is based on stupidity rather than ignorance. It doesn’t matter how many times these people are told – and can see with the evidence of their own eyes – that in Israel gay people are embraced while under Hamas they are murdered, they simply refuse to acknowledge anything.
It requires a really very stupid mind – and a determination to remain untroubled by information – to believe that gay people have a natural place alongside fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. As Benjamin Franklin is said to have put it: “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
If we are properly to understand the role of stupidity in the public realm, it’s important to be clear that it’s not about disagreeing with someone.
The commentator and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, for example, is someone for whom I have near total contempt. But he is far from stupid; indeed it’s precisely his ability to (in my opinion) distort facts in order to shape them to fit his own agenda that makes him an opponent who cannot simply be swatted away as an idiot. George Galloway, likewise, is not stupid.
Jeremy Corbyn, on the other hand – who I would imagine agrees with almost every word that comes out of Hasan’s mouth – is an all too obvious example of someone who is, I would contend, simply stupid. There has been no self-reflection, no development in his thinking, no intellectual growth in Corbyn’s mind since he emerged on the left political scene in the 1970s. And his positions on so many issues are based not so much on ignorance – it’s not as if he hasn’t been told! – but on stupidity, because he is simply incapable of understanding ideas or challenges to his worldview.”
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/dont-forget-the-role-of-stupidity-in-the-debate-about-israel-mblpdwnb
It isn’t that they are all stupid, it’s that they live in a culture that encourages accepting authority, unquestionly, using many techniques that used to be discouraged in Western universities.
Thanks for the link 👍
“Green leader’s nuclear disaster”
Why do the left never seem to think anything through..?
If they thought things through, they wouldn’t be on the Left! 🙂
(Thank you for setting up the joke.)
The swing to the right..?
Personally, I see it more as a reclaiming of the middle. ‘Far Right’ only looks ‘Right’ because of how far ‘Left’ the left have gone.
Just FYI:
The Belgian Prime Minister resigned last night.
The 2024 EU elections prove very interesting. What will happen next with the EU?