The Prospects Academies Trust is but the first of many.
They are determined to force even the most unrepentantly Blairite of Labour Education Secretaries to close down the whole project.
Or to save him the trouble, by already having done so within the next 12 months.
Maybe five-year fixed-term Parliaments were not such a bad idea after all?
I know you're not bright enough to realise this, but I have to point out that the comprehensive system you support means the abolition not just of grammars, private schools and academies, but of faith schools too.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot have a comprehensive education system-and schools that select by faith. Obviously.
The day you ever start thinking, you might realise where the modern Left is going with all this.
The other media supporters of comprehensive schools already have-to a man, almost all of them oppose faith schools too.
Who on earth asked them?
ReplyDeleteIf you knew the first thing about the Labour Party (and it is now the Labour Party again) from the inside...
In fact, if you were even a vaguely knowledgeable observer of it, as plenty of people on the Right are.
It was Kenneth Baker who wanted to abolish church schools. He still does, very outspokenly.
Backed by Thatcher, his scheme to end collective worship made it all the way to defeat on the floor of the House of Lords.
Meanwhile, before his real aim could ever get anything like that far, it was killed off, as all previous variations on it have always been, by the Catholic lobby on the Labour benches.
Anglican Tories agree with that lobby on this, but it does not really affect them, because they do not use the state sector and never would.
So the organisational burden falls on the Labour Catholics. And they bear it. Always have, always will.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more to Catholics, even the most nominal Catholics, than Catholic schools do. What the State does with civil marriage, for example, does not begin to come close.
And those schools turn out Labour voters, while employing Labour members, on, in both cases, an industrial scale. Always have, always will.
Not for the first time, you are just a hopelessly naive little boy, and utterly out of your depth.
I think he is quite charming, trying a line like that. He is like a small child. He knows nothing about how the real world works. Labour would ever abolish Catholic schools! I nearly fell off my chair laughing! They perpetuate the most solidly Labour-voting subculture in the entire country and the fact he needs that explained to him proves his balls haven't dropped.
ReplyDeleteHe is obviously from the South, where, except in certain parts of London and in pockets elsewhere, he cannot have been expected to have grown up with that knowledge.
ReplyDeleteStill, he ought to have bothered to acquire it before he passed comment on these matters.
The churches are well and truly in the fold now. The C of E used to be dodgy, especially after Blair and Iraq, but that was before IDS, Michael Gove and all the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteThe others: Rome, the old Nonconformists, the black churches, they have always been staunchly Labour and never more so than after IDS, Michael Gove and all the rest of them.
Touch their precious schools (and the old Nonconformists and the black churches strongly support C of E ones), you must be having a laugh! They are safer with Labour than they are with the Tories.