Speak With The Enemies In The Gate

The Catholic community is this country used to be characterised by large families, is still more likely than average to have them, and used to be largely poor.

The members of those large families, still disproportionately likely to have them of their own, are now generally well-to-do. Not usually rich. But very rarely poor. Just go to Mass even in a very working-class area, and look at the people around you.

Two things were equally vital to this advancement. One was full employment. And the other was proper schools, whether grammar schools or the Secondary Moderns that were so much better than what has replaced them, but both provided by a true partnership between Church and State.

George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt and all the rest, take note.