One Rule For Etonians, Another Rule for Grammarians
Guido is sure that when Boris publicly disagreed with party policy and went off-message, Dave was challenged to sack him, he retorted that the Conservatives "welcomed debate" and "were not control freaks like New Labour" etcetera. Dave isn't welcoming policy debate from Graham Brady, he is sacking him. He not only has the wrong view on schools, he went to the wrong school..
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I am totally confused. Having been to a state primary school, a grammar school for my GCSE's and to Eton for my A'Levels I haven't a clue as to what I believe in.
We don't have an state education system in this country, we have a crèche system for adolescents (to enable their parents to work) justified by the aim of education.
I'm learning all the time......that Dave is a nincompoop
What anticitizenone says.
"This is the Conservative Party. We are not New Labour, we don't mind if people go off message. We love it actually" David Cameron October 2006
The ABC Group (Anybody But Cameron) gained a load more members yesterday.
in 18 years in power the tories neither abolished nor introduced a single grammar school - not a big issue - then in opposition they have decided to implode around the issue. Bizarre!
Sorry AntiCitizenOne, state comp system all the way for me, did me proud. And compared to my public school workmates, I'm a fucking genius.
rich - anyone is a fucking genius when compared to the fuckwittery of the shadow cabinet and its advisors.
Um...
shadow - insubstantial, two-dimensional - and vanishes when the lights go out,
cabinet - a repository for surplus items; usually made of wood.
Graham Brady IS a bit dim though isn't he? Nice but ... and all that. This will secure his seat (which wobbled in 2001) for a decade or more. They'll love Graham for this. And if we're honest he always was a token freeschooler wasn't he?
No blue blood at all. Though he might pass for Chas's younger brother in looks and brains. Has Philip been over the side? Is GB ahead of DC on the list for crowning?
The key difference though Guido is that Boris did not deliberately do it twice in a row, having been warned off the first time by the whips.
Praguetory: "This is the Conservative Party. We are not New Labour, we don't mind if people go off message. We love it actually" David Cameron October 2006
RogerThornhill: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend" Mao Ze-Dong, Summer, 1957 before a bloody purge of intellectuals and dissidents.
Rich,
I too had a "comprehensive" edumakation. I've learnt FAR more in a few years on The Internet, than I ever did at school.
Comprehensive for me was a load of PC /lefty indoctrination and precious little learning or even learning how to learn. Luckily for me I had a very strong "bullshit sale" detector and choose subjects that were difficult to PCify, unfortunately that's the subjects that all the crap teachers teach, because if they were any good they'd be making a living off their knowledge.
School Report:
I had such hopes for young Cameron. His initial ideas and thoughts seemed promising. Now, though he has gone into Gordon Brown mode - welcoming debate - until it actually happens.
3 out of ten. It's time he made some toast for his peers in the sixth form study.
Anon: 12.36 How many warnings has his wife issued and how times has he done it?
Don't you just love those Eton boys?
I am with Praguetory --- why shouldn’t a few independent thoughts be aired?
Boris reflects what many others in the Party feel: that each MP should respond with his/her own conscience and not be herded into one pen and tied to one voice. We are a multi-faceted and multicultural society and we should be tolerant of different views.
Melissa
Webmaster, www.boris-johnson.com
anticitizenone,
If you'd have taken the PCleftybullshit classes, you'd have probably aced them. Examiners love awkward untraditional answers, well argued - it lifts them out of the stupor of mediocrity, even if they're frankly rather dodgy.
I speak as someone who argued for the British Empire's right to exploit slavery in my history exams, I think... to receive a welcome A*.
He's resigned - will he ever come back?
Looks like the CP wants to stay in the 19th century...
Anyone up for Graham's job? I promise to take you out when you come to Prague.
Well as everyone knows, grammar school boys are just jumped up sons of greengrocers who wear their socks in bed and think it's wrong to be rude to the servants.
Excellent post Guido, and thanks for the quote Prague. I remember the grin as he said it now.
Of course, if he had been in the Bullingdon Club like Boris, it would have just been an amusing jape from a good chap.
Eton 1, Oiks nil.
Top hole Cammers!
Pass the talc can Georgy boy. Dad's allowance has just come through so we can all go out hoeing.
"jumped up sons of greengrocers who wear their socks in bed"
Now that's something to scare your sons with. "Do that and you'll turn into Margaret Thatcher!"
Are there enough Old Etonian voters to elect Cameron & Co ?
'hoeing'? Are you in sort of gardening club?
DC's Tories, I cant see me voting for a leftist party like that mob. But then Im just an oik from the comp (though it was a grammar a couple of years before I arrived)
Graham Brady went to my school and I was on his selection committee; we only picked him because he was from the local grammar and looked at the time very much like Prince Andrew...
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