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While you are seeking to make the world better, then you still have to live in it as it is. Hasan Patel is not a hypocrite. Jamie Driscoll was not a hypocrite. 

The hypocrites are the highly activist Education Ministers who buy their own children out of the practical application and implications of their policies. Those are far more likely to be Conservatives. And their hypocrisy is never, ever called out. 

The condition of a commercial school’s continuing charitable status should be its having been adjudged good or better by Ofsted, using the same criteria as for state schools, with the reports published, and with the value-added measure applied, thereby requiring those schools to have demonstrated how they had improved pupils’ abilities. 

At the same time, I fully recognise that those schools regularly provide left-wing figures with a platform that they are seldom or never afforded by the schools that are under the direct or indirect control of the municipal Labour Right.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I will stand for this seat of North West Durham, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.