THE EDUCATION DIKTAT...
The sheer mendacity of this Labour government is manifest in the new Government "guidance" showing that English grammars will be ordered to take more pupils from poor and ethnic minority backgrounds. They will be publicly exposed in area-by-area reports and told to adjust their intakes. They ultimately face being referred to admissions regulators who are being handed sweeping powers to demand 'fair' access. This is quite obvious social engineering and an onslaught on whatever vestige of excellence remains in secondary education. The Stalinists in Labour are out to annihilate the concept of good quality education and replace it with dumbed down mediocrity but hey - at least all kids will have access to that and surely this is the main point, right?
David Vance
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Balls!
David -
We know that the Rt. Hon. Ed Balls, close friend and ally of the Prime Minister, is behind this mendacious move. Ed Balls is not a member of the Labour Party, he's a member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, and it would be more correct to call him a Co-operative Party delegate within the Labour faction. He's also a Fabian socialist. He must, therefore, see his task as re-ordering society along collectivist, socialist lines.
Every Labour government since the war has been heavily influenced by its Fabian members, none more so than the foul Blair and Brown governments. It has never made any secret of its intention to re-order society, destroy nation states and bring about global socialist governance. Its members ought to be treated as if they were wearing swastikas. Instead, they get to be in government and tell decent (conservative) institutions how to run themselves.
Grammar schools must tell the government to where to go. They must dare government to legislate or resort to the courts. By rolling over they'll be allowing this genuinely wicked government to get away with its dreaful programmes without accountability and have no moral right to teach children.
The Stalinists in Labour have a vision of utopia. The "fair access" plan for grammar schools - which inevitably will be enforced by "regulators" - is just another piece in the jigsaw that makes a socialist utopia.
But a "perfect society" cannot be constructed without coercion. People must be compelled to exist in one: it's for their own good.