Quote from the Daily Telegraph 29th. May 2007:
“In a speech which has divided the party, Mr Willetts argued there was evidence that grammar schools tended to impede social mobility rather than reduce it.”
. . . yer! . . . ain’t dat da bleedin’ same fing ?!! . . .
Indeed ‘Errol’; you are absolutely correct. . . He doesn’t know what he is talking about! . . And the complete opposite is true in fact! . . Grammar Schools PROMOTE social mobility rather than IMPEDE it. . . To access a Grammar School you don’t need money; you just need a few brains! . . And once there, the sky is the limit! . . The opposite is true when it comes to Comprehensives. . . If your local Comprehensive is ‘rubbish’, you need the money to buy a house in a better catchment area which will ALMOST CERTAINLY BE MORE EXPENSIVE BECAUSE OF IT! . . . . .
. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)
P.S. Something I read today, and I tend to agree.
“I have read the comments posted here (Daily Telegraph) at 10-10am, and I am interested in the ever-present feeling that what David Cameron inspires in “dyed in the wool” Conservatives is a sense of utter disbelief. The leadership of the Conservative Party apparently predict an imminent lurch to the Left in Labour and wish to portray themselves as “the keepers of the flame” that is the Blair Legacy. The problem with this is that they immediately embrace everything that is tarnished about this consummate ham actor and don his now shabby mantle. Spin, soundbites, vapid gesture politics, expediency etc., etc..
We live in the world of the economic and administrative non sequitur. Houses cost too much, so both partners work, they produce too few kids, so unbridled immigration is encouraged, house prices continue to rise, infrastructure crumbles, taxes rise, couples produce too few kids, the population ages, demand for services grow, government gets it wrong on an heroic scale, indebtedness reaches record levels, public sector pension liabilities become stratospheric, and so on as the problems become compounded. In the meantime, a political party that is probably, historically, the most successful in the world, after 10 years in-fighting sees the results gained by smoke and mirrors, and decides that this is the prescription for its own resurgence in the eyes of the British people. Sadly, even if there is a well-intentioned aspect to these pronouncements, I don’t think it will wash. Another politician playing the media is to the British public, who view the future with great trepidation, as about as ‘welcome as a fart in a spacesuit’ “.
Posted in The Daily Telegraph by Nick R on May 30th. 2007
“Wake up fools! . . It’s just “The Ecomomy Stupid!” . . .We ‘buggered it up’ with the E.R.M.. . . .Ken Clarke sorted it; then Blair and Nu Labour ‘Rode the Wave’ just like Michael (Lord)Hestltine said would happen! . . Blame the Europhiles; now we’ve got it all in ’spades’!
. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)