GTC caves in to BNP watchdog demands

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

GTC caves in to BNP watchdog demands

(Monday 17 November 2008)








THE General Teaching Council (GTC) caved in to the wishes of a BNP member accused of spreading religious and racial intolerance as a teacher on Monday after he demanded that a prominent union official be kicked off a watchdog panel considering his case.



Adam Walker told BNP supporters gathered outside the offices of the GTC that he believed that National Union of Teachers executive member Judy Moorhouse, a former president, was biased against him.

She was later forced to step down after the GTC committee declared that it would be "inappropriate" for Ms Moorhouse, who is also the chairwoman of the GTC, to continue to sit on the case.


Ms Moorhouse was one of a three-strong panel scheduled to hear the case against Mr Walker, who is being represented by the BNP-established Solidarity trade union, which has been branded "bogus" and "little more than a scab union" by anti-fascist groups and the TUC.


TUC general secretary Brandan Barber said: "There should be no place in the classroom for teachers who belong to organisations of the far right.


Young people can be very impressionable and they may be easily influenced by racist, intolerant views, particularly when these are being voiced by people in positions of authority.


Anti-fascist campaigners also protested outside the hearing on Monday, calling for Mr Walker to be struck off.


The teacher is alleged to have engaged in unacceptable professional conduct while employed at Houghton Kepier Sport College in Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland.


Between February and March 2007, he allegedly used a school laptop during lessons and contributed to online discussions in which he demonstrated views suggestive of racial and religious intolerance.

I would find it very hard to not be biased against anyone in the BNP myself.

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