Another angry voice (blog), 17th August 2012
It has been revealed that the Coalition government have been lying about the amount of school playing fields they have sold off. In answer to a Freedom of Information request the education minister Michael Gove claimed that his department had sold off 20 playing fields since 2010.That Gove was prepared to admit that every single application to sell off playing fields had been approved was bad enough, but just a couple of weeks later the Daily Telegraph revealed that the figures were false and that Gove had actually approved thirty playing field sell-offs. In five of these cases the playing fields were sold off against the advice of the School Playing Fields Advisory Panel. It was also revealed that many of these decisions were taken on behalf of Michael Gove by someone called Lord Hill, who upon closer inspection turns out to be a Conservative party member called Jonathan Hill that has never been publicly elected in his life and has absolutely no experience in the education sector. Hill who used to work for Bell Pottinger (a large Tory donor) was turned into a Lord by David Cameron shortly after becoming Prime Minister, presumably in order to give him a veneer of legitimacy as he set about selling off public property against the expert advice.
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