Coventry MPs meet Gove over cancelled school scheme

A delegation of Coventry MPs and councillors are to meet the education secretary at Westminster to try to get a school building programme reinstated.

Coventry South MP Jim Cunningham, Bob Ainsworth, MP for Coventry North East, and Geoffrey Robinson MP for Coventry North West are meeting Michael Gove.

Only one of the 22 projects in the city is to go ahead after the government scrapped a national rebuilding scheme.

Mr Cunningham said they have to take a stand against the government.

"I don't think we should take things lying down," he said.

'Tragedy for education'

"I think we have got to fight for what we can get out of them.

"Because, if they get away with this they'll be trying other things as well so we've got to make a stand somewhere."

Earlier this month, Mr Gove said all local authority schemes that have not reached financial close would not go ahead, saving "billions" of pounds.

In Coventry, the new £27m Sidney Stringer Academy, in Hillfields, will go ahead as planned while 21 other schemes have been stopped.

Jane Nellist, from the NUT in Coventry, said at the time it was a tragedy for education in the city.

Mr Gove has since been criticised for wrongly telling schools in Sandwell in the Black Country that some projects will happen when in fact they will not.

He "apologised unreservedly" last week for making the errors.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't these 3 muppets fail to stop what was left of Coventry's car industry closing down under Labour and the main post office moving from Hertford Street to W H Smiths Not to mention the ongoing failure to build a train station at the Ricoh

If they couldn't do anything to help Coventry when their own party was in power how the hell will they change the mind of the CONservatives