Dear Sir,
I’ve never been a great fan of Alastair Campbell, Tony
Bliar and New Labour’s propaganda ‘supremo’ even to the point of
despising the man (and enjoying him being mercilessly satirised by
Peter Capaldi in “The Thick of It”); however, since he has retired as a
‘journalistic hack’ , he has shown glimmerings of being an egalitarian
thinker. His partner, Fiona Miller has always championed Comprehensive
State Education over both Private Independents and Grammar Schools. The
evidence from Finland (which is regarded as a Global leader in
education) supports this view.
Anyway,
it is the dire, enduring and endemic inequality both in the British
(especially the English-centred class system) which is played out and
most clearly manifested in our educational system.There is little will to change the way we educate children with the result that we continue to elect elitist and incompetent dorks who
‘feather their own nests’ or those of their friends…. a system known
colloquially as the “Chumocracy”. Meanwhile the many with potential and
ability, who are not priviliged chumocrats, rarely get a look in!
We need a revolution!!….. but I ain’t holding my breath….
Yours,
A.A. Fulle-Marx (educationalist)
"This Chumcockracy stuff, De Pfeffel, do you think they're onto us?"
