Michael Gove's latest Wheeze of the Week has been doing the rounds for donkey's years. It
never happened even under people who managed to bring about other things. It
will certainly not happen under Gove, who never actually does anything.
However, it is a useful illustration of the extreme anti-family position of those who subscribe to his preferred economic model, which on Wednesday was paraded through London as now the official and unquestionable ideology of this State, with parliamentary business suspended and Big Ben silenced in order to make that point. Under that model, parents and children, never mind extended families and networks of friends, already see little enough of each other. Gove wants to make that situation even worse.
There would of course be none of this for commercial schools. It would have come to something if they had ever appeared to be relatively pro-family, despite embodying a purely financial relationship between parents and children, and despite being organised to the living out of adolescence in single-sex residential environments, both of which had startling policy implications when their products were running the country between 1979 and 1997, and both of which are having more such implications now.
Nor, one need hardly add, would there be any of this for Parliament.
But it is not going to happen. File it alongside the bringing back of O-levels in place of Thatcher's GCSEs.
Yes, the proposed abolition of Thatcher's GCSE's that was most vigorously opposed by the Left in general and your Labour Party in particular...as you might have noticed.
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Come on, don't be coy. Tell us what you really think, Lindsay.
I can't remember Labour, as such, saying anything about it. It was just ignored, as all Goveisms are, because none of them ever comes to anything. Nor will this.
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