Quote Originally Posted by Iani View Post
In a way, this is not a bad thing.

What I mean is, the only way something "might" ever be done about this sort of thing, is if it affects those in power, the "elite" and not just us peasants who should know our place, who are denounced as "bar room politics" if we dare complain about things like crime and give our suggestions.

Just as you can be damned sure the NHS would suddenly be top class if everyone was forced to use it, and just as the bog standard comprehensive would be history within days if private education was banned..................then the only way anything would ever be done would be if a problem ended up on THEIR back yard.

I suggest some Romanian squatters in the dorm at Eton, a huge asylum seeker hostel in Henley Upon Thames and some chavs drinking white lightening hanging around Downing Street at 2am every night
In the manner of privately funded health and education, we could have both a top class education system and a top class NHS but we aren't prepared to pay more in taxes to fund it. Are we?

Who is willing to pay more in tax to fund the improvements?

Oh. And by the way, I thought that the Comprehensive system was supposed to be the answer to our education issues?