Education Secretary denies refusing cheap internet for children, to ensure they couldn’t learn at home
Gavin Williamson: so stupid, he thinks his daft excuse about quality control will hold water. His Tory government doesn’t have any?
It seems Gavin Williamson is making a fuss about this.
According to the Mirror,
Gavin Williamson turned down an offer to get free or cheap broadband for thousands of disadvantaged families, the Mirror has learned.
Broadband giant BT offered to supply families basic connections to allow children to access online learning with schools closed for months during the Covid-19 pandemic.
And the firm’s Chief Executive revealed they had given free wifi vouchers to the Government in June but the Department for Education ‘struggled to distribute them effectively’ and returned them.
Williamson tells a different story:
A spokesman for the education department said a pilot of the scheme had not provided “reliable and consistent” internet connection.
Who do you believe?
Well, BT is an Internet Service Provider of very long standing, with experience in providing a reliable service to many thousands – if not millions – of homes.
And the Conservative Government of which Williamson is a member has also displayed consistency – in wasting public money on services offered by cowboy companies cobbled together by Tory donors or spoilt friends of Cabinet members.
It looks like another ideologically-motivated attack on the poor; pretend the offer doesn’t meet what passes for Conservative government quality control and reject it – to ensure that poor kids miss out on the education that might otherwise give them an advantage over rich kids who tend not to have two brain cells to rub together.
It’s just been exposed that Gavin Williamson refused an offer from BT to provide free/cheap broadband to kids who need access to online learning. The Tories don’t care and are going out of their way to hurt the poorest kids.
— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) January 7, 2021
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If a project isn’t profitable for the fascist tories then they automatically lie and claim ‘wah it’s not value for money!! So this is why fascist puppet Williamson lied about his refusal to accept BT’s offer of cheap broadband for disadvantaged families!
How dare a company offer something which disadvantaged and poor families could actually use – it doesn’t make fascist tory sense!
Anyway never ever believe anything little fascist dictator dick johnnson and his fascist tory cabal claim because they are incapable of telling the truth!