Talk:John Patten, Baron Patten

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I've moved the page because "Baron Patten" seems to be a better disambiguation than "UK Politician," for the former is actually a part of his title. -- Emsworth 00:58, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Record as Secretary of Education
Currently give only this: "Patten's record as education secretary has been described as "appalling" by David Hart, former general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers and major opponent during his time in office.[1]" Following the source I see that it is a throwaway line in a longer comment about Tory education secretaries. A throwaway line by a clear political opponent is therefore now the only assessment we have of the man's political career. Not good.

An ideal fix would be to expand the section on his time as Education Secretary. What policies did he implement? Who supported them, who opposed them? Which were regarded in the fullness of time as successes or failures, and by whom, and for what reasons?

I'm not deleting the line just yet, as I'd prefer we move towards that ideal fix. But I think that unless someone (including me) gets up the energy to do it the right way, leaving a biased entry like this is unfair, and we should remove the line. I'll do that later this week, if I don't get time to make some proper edits. (I might get the chance, on Wednesday.)--Jimbo Wales (talk) 15:46, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There having been no response for several days, I've simply removed the line as incompatible with WP:BLP.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 12:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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