Tedsson
LE
I think the middle class bolsheviks were always there, someone had to make sure that while the workers voted none of them got above themselves and actually tried to run the country. That's why Labour shut down the grammar schools, Wilson was a dangerous example and that sort of thing had to be stopped.
I'd also argue that the Labour movement is no more interested in the working man than is the Trade Unions it was set up to represent. Both see him as a useful source of money and power, just like the capitalists.
Of course you're left wing, you're public sector workers, you require a high tax economy to pay your wages and buy you all that gucci kit.
If only it weren’t for all of those pesky facts getting in the way of your tedious diatribe.
Most LAs, of all political persuasions, abolished grammar schools/selection in the sixties and seventies.
Margaret Thatcher holds the record as the SoS for Education who closed or merged the most Grammar schools for comprehensives.
When given the option to return to selection even leafy Tory suburbs like Solihull rejected it.
John Major’s offer of a Grammar school in every LEA had zero take-up and sank like a lead balloon.
Even middle class kids can fail their Eleven Plus.