Kevin D
Again you deflect. You also say:
"One might be forgiven for thinking that the AEU's prime responsibility is to raise standards by ensuring more effective teaching and greater accountability."

Surely you would be aware that the primary responsibility of a union is to represent the industrial interests of its members. There seem to me to be three options here: you could be lying, you may be misrepresenting the facts or you may be just plain ignorant. Perhaps you could enlighten us.

This seems to me to be the kind of intellectual deceit that Aka-lan was getting at: and you know it. Why you feel compelled to question his comprehension skills I cannot understand, unless it is just code for calling him stupid.

There is a perfectly good argument that Mr Byrne was not doing the primary responsibility of the AEU much good with his comments, but that is a more difficult and less marketable argument.

But then what can we expect from conservatives. The report released by the Minister should be an interesting read from this point of view.