It's difficult to list all the things the current Government have fucked up. It's like some dark dystopian satire where you think things have hit rock bottom, then you realise they've found a way to keep digging. While spitting at poor people.
Here are some lowlights in case you've missed them:
* Worst death rate in Europe
* Infected patients shipped into care homes
* Justice system undermined
* World-beating track and trace system costing millions, awarded to company with Government links and a massive failure
* Millions spunked on red tape in a Brexit they largely engineered
* Multi-million-pound PPE contracts awarded to shady companies in bizarre back alley deals with no scrutiny
* Lack of clear messaging on lockdown rules
* School returns utterly botched
* Predicted worst recession in Europe en route
And these are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Their latest catastrophe, however, is A Level results. In a piece of social engineering that would win applause from right-wing eugenicists, the algorithm the Government has used to predict A Level results disadvantages pupils from large, state schools and rewards those at private schools.
For those interested in statistics and fact rather than opinion and conjecture, the grade inflation at private schools increasing A to A* was 4.7%. In state sixth forms and FE colleges, the same statistic was 0.3%. And this is just at the top end of the marking system.
Nearly 40% of students have been marked down one grade if they were predicted to get grades ranging from B-D.
I spent Thursday working at a clearing call centre for a university and the amount of gutted students I talked to who were predicted to easily hit their entry grades but were downgraded on results day was heartbreaking.
The day, however, was not without its beautiful moment. The Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, was quoted as saying: 'The danger is that pupils will be over-promoted into jobs that are beyond their competence.' From a man in the same Cabinet as Priti Patel, Chris Grayling, Matt Hancock, Liz Truss and the laziest and most incompetent Prime Minister in history, Boris Johnson.
Sadly, he didn't actually say this. But Priti Patel did demand that France take back refuges landing in Kent. If we were still in the EU, they'd have to. But guess what? We're not. She probably didn't think it through...
Still we have asylum seekers to throw back in the English Channel and distract us while the Government moves onto he next fuck-up.
On the plus side, this A Level shit show means Chris Grayling is no longer the most incompetent member of his party. So he's probably delighted.
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