Gemma F’ing Collins?!

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]And another thing, you knew it was coming. The Department for Education have put together, I mean, I can't believe I'm actually saying this. I genuinely genuinely cannot believe that this sentence is going to come out of my mouth. The Department for Education has put together a social media campaign with Gemma Collins.

[00:00:21]Now, I'm going to give you some background on Gemma Collins that the Department for Education did not put in their social media campaign. What they've done is try and cotton on to someone, get their claws into someone that has a big following because they've understood that social media is where we're at these days. They've understood that if people see it on social media, they're inclined to believe it. Which again is a real worry. I verify what I say. I'm a journalist. I actually back it up. But the Department for Education, not so much. Which is why when Bridget Phillips tweets that there's more teachers coming into school, the National Education Union and almost everybody else went, "Uh, no, you're actually down on teachers, you know, but they can do what they want." So Gemma Collins interviews Bridget Phillips and she talks about how she doesn't have a grade in maths. She says she didn't get one. She sat in her exam and she didn't get an exam because she was so panicky.

[00:01:13]She didn't get a grade because she was so panicky. Now I resonate with that. I was crap at maths, which for the daughter of an accountant is awkward.

[00:01:21]Um, we now know it's because I'm seriously dyslexic. But maths was really difficult for me. So, do you know what my parents did? They sacrificed things and my mom took more hours on at work so that I could have a tutor to help me get through my math so that I would get a grade because my parents recognized the importance of my education for my future. So I worked like Billio and I got myself a C and I actually now I'm not doing GCES because I'm a little bit too old for that. I actually enjoy maths now because I do it at my pace in my way. So I had a positive experience because my parents valued education.

[00:01:58]They thought it was important and they thought it would be important for my future. So they made sacrifices for it.

[00:02:03]It wasn't school's fault I was [ __ ] at maths. It was because I was so severely dyslexic.

[00:02:08]But I got through it. Gemma Collins is telling you it doesn't really matter.

[00:02:12]And Bridget Phillips saying, "Oh, well, you can have a vocational or what's it and this that and the other."

[00:02:18]What I thought we were raising the standards of education, but here we are extolling the virtues of not having your maths GCSE. Now, it isn't the be all and end all. I grant you that. There are other things in life that are arguably more important than a matter of GCSE. But the aspiration to want to get it, that's a very different matter. If we tell all of our young people at schools, don't worry about it. Jeemma Collins said she didn't need it because she knew she was going to be famous. What's that telling them?

[00:02:51]That you don't have to work. You don't have to try. You belittle and degrade education. and you belittle and degrade all the kids that do work hard for it, that do get it and in difficult circumstances.

[00:03:06]Surely your best efforts should be what are rewarded. If you worked hard and you tried hard and you didn't get the grade, you put your best into it, you gained a lot more out of the experience than just not trying. And and hopefully in life you will use that to get you where you want to be. But we've got the Department for Education extolling the virtues of someone who proudly says they didn't get a maths grade.

[00:03:34]Wow. A and whilst we're talking about it, let's have a talk about Gemma Collins, who's now decided that she's going to work in the education department for the Labour Party, the party that taxes kids out of education, kids like her. Because Gemma Collins went to a state school and she was so horribly bullied that her parents for her last year of education had the choice to put her in a private school.

[00:03:58]Why did they do that? Because they didn't want their daughter being bullied. And damn right you don't, do you? So they were given the opportunity to take a child who was subjected to bullying out of the environment and put her in an environment where hopefully that wouldn't happen. And it looks like it was a success. She wasn't bullied at her new school. Now the Labor government that Gemma Collins is supporting is taxing you on your choice, on your freedom to do the right thing by your child. And it's spending your tax money on promoting an education department that doesn't value education.

[00:04:36]Is that where you want your money going?

[00:04:38]Because I don't. I do not want my money being spent on a Gemma Collins campaign.

[00:04:42]Now, I accept Gemma Collins wasn't paid.

[00:04:45]Damn [ __ ] right, she wasn't paid. It should never have been a thing that she might have been paid. But I tell you what it did cost. It cost millions of pounds. It was Bridget's 90 million pound social media budget that went on buildge like this. We've already had the video of parents extolling the virtues of free breakfast clubs that aren't free and saying that they like them because it gives them time to have a coffee with their mates or clean the house. They're not saying they like it because it actually feeds their child because they can't say that because their child was either being fed beforehand in the actual free breakfast clubs which were run by charities which MEANT THAT THERE WAS no cost or they were feeding them at home.

[00:05:29]Yep, I know. Now, we're not allowed to say that anymore. We're not allowed to say that it's a parents responsibility to feed their children, but off it is.

[00:05:36]It is our responsibility. And when parents get to a point where they can't do that, where the genuine cases of hardship mean that a parent can't feed their child, which can you imagine?

[00:05:52]Can you imagine what that feels like? Then they did get help. I think they should have got more.

[00:06:00]I've said it before. I think they should have got more than just a breakfast. It should be breakfast, lunch, and dinner 365 days a year if that's what it is.

[00:06:07]but instead that money has now been dispersed to all children. So the children that really really needed the help. They're at the back of the queue.

[00:06:17]There is less money to spend on them and support them. And that is disgusting.

[00:06:22]And and we virtue signal we're lifting 450,000 children out of poverty as we ignore the children that are going into poverty as a direct result of Rachel Reeds.

[00:06:34]And we ignore the fact that the non-free taxpayer funded breakfast club is meaning that children that really really needed those free school meals are being squeezed out.

[00:06:46]I didn't put my name to that either.