500 more free schools, rising to 900 by 2020? Where are all these parent groups and charities? This is about plain old commercial privatisation, by force.
Education policy itself has already been farmed out to Policy Exchange. Even the Prime Minister does nothing more than read out the press releases accompanying its "reports".
And who funds Policy Exchange? Parent groups and charities?
Its voice on education policy is that of a minor public dilettante who has at least grown out of the Damon Albarn Mockney accent of his and my salad days, but who still knows nothing in the slightest about state education.
Meanwhile, the knives are already out for Tim Montgomerie's The Good Right.
After the Election, the Conservatives will have some repositioning to do, as occupying "the centre ground" between Ed Miliband and Tim Farron.
That's right. Halfway between Ed Miliband and Tim Farron.
Anyone still calling himself a Thatcherite even at the end of this year will be incandescent. But utterly powerless to do anything about it.
Montgomerie, (like most people who use the phrase "compassionate conservatism" or "good Right" if you like) is a fashionable social liberal.
ReplyDeleteNews to him, I expect.
Delete