tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-64746675462249383422008-05-08T07:32:00.000+01:002008-05-08T07:32:00.000+01:0010 Downing Street was toff-free for thirty three years (1964-1997). All five of the Prime Ministers in that period (3 Con, 2 Lab) were grammar school products.<BR/><BR/>Labour’s Tony Blair (Fettes College) thus re-established the rule of traditional elites within the executive office.<BR/><BR/>This state of affairs may have arisen partly from the work of Labour theorist and intellectual, Tony Crosland ("If there's one thing I do, I will smash every fucking grammar school in the country"). Crosland had attended Highgate School and Trinity College, Oxford.Phil Jackson of Stoke on Trentnoreply@blogger.com