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Just months after the successful 2012 Olympics, Justine Greening – the new Education Secretary – backed the sell-off of six tennis courts, a football pitch and a playground belonging a local school in her Putney constituency, of which she was a governor:
Justine Greening in school playing fields row
Just months after the sale, the school was handed over to a private Academy Chain ARK.
The chairman of ARK at the time happened to be a multi-millionaire investment banker called Stanley Fink.
Fink also happens to be a Tory peer who has served as co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party.
The sold-off school fields were subsequently bought by a private developer.
This is the woman now in charge of all our children’s schools.
Pride's Purge 
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this is absolutely disgusting and justine Greening should not be in Parliament voting on any legislation linked to education.
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See more discussion about privatisation, academies and ARK at link below:
http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/privatisation-post-brexit.html
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Sounds just like Northamptonshire’s first Police and Crime Commissioner, Adam Simmonds a Conservative who has strong links with two cult-like religious organisations. Simmonds thinks the sun shines out of Theresa May and they both want to push christianity. Simmonds announced his intention to start a religious school to the Jesus Army. He has since sold the Police HQ to his chums to start his academy. To make the site easier to enter he spent £500,000 of the police budget on a roundabout and then sold the land at half the value it was worth in his last week in office, even though in his consultation 85% of the people were against his plans. When it was established that he was not allowed to do the school himself he back pedalled and said it was only his idea. He stepped down at the last PCC election, he has so far not raised his head, but I can see him getting new orders from Theresa May to do some more dodgy dealings.
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Was the initial buyer of the playing fields somehow entangled also?
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I don’t know which is more depressing – that this kind of thing goes on, or that we’re almost not shocked by it anymore………
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Ark is one of the academy chains mentioned in the book I reviewed, ‘The Great City Academy Fraud’, by Francis Beckett. It’s name is an acronym, standing for Absolute Return for Kids. They are back by some extremely wealthy individuals and companies, including, almost inevitably, capital management firms, registered not here in Blighty, but over in the Cayman Islands. This includes Aspect Capital, ‘whose Aspect Funds are ‘organised as exempted companies incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands’ and ‘not overseen by the Cayman Islands government or any other regulator.’ (p. 103, quoting Ron Muller). So, more privatisation of Britain’s vital social enterprises for the profit of the ‘privileged few’.
As for selling off school playing fields, this scandal was the subject of a continuing column in Private Eye, and was also attacked by the Daily Mail’s political sketch writers, Quentin Letts, in one of his books ‘Bog Standard Britain’, or ‘5o People Who Buggered Up Britain’. How degraded do you have been to be as a Tory, when even the Daily Mail is against your policies?
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Sounds as though some people are just afraid of strong women!
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No Sharron we love ’em!
It’s the bent ones we don’t care for and very near the top of the list are Justine Greening, Angela Eagle and Margaret Hodge.
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