STULTUS UTILIS : Breaking news this morning that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson was sacked several weeks ago by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but somehow remains in post.
The letter sacking the Frank Spencer of Education was sent to his office and it is reported it “lay open but unread” on his desk. It is not yet clear why Mr Johnson did not follow up to force the issue once Mr Williamson kept turning up to the office each day. Suspicions that he is also incompetent are thought to be behind the failure to act.
Mr Williamson has carved out a definite reputation as Secretary for State for Education, singlehandedly damaging the prospects of millions of state school children in what has been described as a “Conservative tour de force of policy making”.
It’s not believed the harm Mr Williamson is doing is directly behind the decision to fire him, although it is related.
“His popularity ratings are sub-arctic with the Conservative Party membership,” a 10 Downing Street source confirms. “This is having a knock on impact on Mr Johnson’s own popularity. So he had no choice but to act. It should be clear that the life chances of state school students are in no way the motivation for the sacking.”
Now that the botched firing of Mr Williamson is in the public domain it is likely that Mr Johnson will move again, and reshuffle Mr Williamson for someone of a similar weapons grade uselessness.
The failure to communicate is thought to lay in the actual letter sent terminating his time in the Cabinet.
“It was written in Latin,” the Downing Street source confirms. “That seems to lie at the heart of the matter. If Mr Williamson can’t recall his grades you can be damn sure he can’t read the letter. In spite of his decision to force a select number of state schools to teach the elite subject.”