The OECD is apparently concerned that Britain sends so few people to university. Just how many does it feel would be appropriate, and why? Out of sheer snobbery, we already send far too many people to university, and are consequently losing both the skill trades, and the honours degree in any recognisable or worthwhile form. We need far fewer universities, with far fewer people at them. And we need to value the skill trades properly in economic, social, cultural and political terms.
This last includes getting far more people from such backgrounds into Parliament and government. Developing and delivering a qualification for “non-graduates” with life and work experience who aspire to become MPs would be a far better use of the unions’ money than propping up an upper-middle-class, metropolitan Labour Party which despises the unions, their members, and the tax-paying classes generally.
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What are you doing with your theology degree? Was it a waste of the public's money and your time?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a job for the Unison General Political Fund.
ReplyDeleteJJ, it informs everything that I do. And Martin, now there's a thought. The GPF does a lot of good, but it does seem to be run in rather a hole-in-the-corner sort of way. I'll look into this, however. I know just the man.
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