Britannist

Andrew Pierce, columnist, writes in today’s Telegraph (brief extracts):

“The justification wheeled out by Willetts (Conservative education spokesman) was a convoluted theory that children entitled to free school dinners never made it to grammars, which therefore exacerbated the inequality of a selective system.

Honestly, they are clueless. Absolutely clueless. The well heeled denizens of the Notting Hill set who dreamt up this sentimental rubbish need to move into the real world.”

Heaven help us if this is the future, because the Tories' first foray into serious policy has triggered turmoil at Conservative HQ. Many activists are demanding the dismissal of Willetts, which is hardly fair, as he was merely doing Dave Cameron's bidding - the same Old Etonian and Oxbridge-educated Cameron who took time off this week to spend two days as a classroom assistant at a school in Hull. Sadly, this latest PR stunt unravelled when it emerged that none of the 14-year-old pupils had heard of Cameron or the Conservative Party.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../19/do1909.xml

TonyG

Should that surprise anyone? In the home of Two Shags they've never been told that any other parties exist - how else could they continually elect him? :roll:

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Britannist

They've just elected a Lib Dim-controlled council at Hull. :evil:

TonyG

Ah, that must be the ejukated half that did that - Hull does have two MPs.
Hmm, except that Alan Johnson got 55% of the vote for Labour in the GE.
Bit of a strange result that one

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I have never understand how the voters of Prescott's Hull constituency could elect him. It is a working class constituency overall - but the very last thing he and Labour are interested in are the English working class.

Doesn't Prescott live in an expensive house and have "two-jags"?

mkpdavies

Hull must be full of utter morons.

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Britannist

The very last thing I would do in Hull is vote for that man.

TonyG

Probably true. I suspect that you aren't a registered voter there. 8)

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No, but if I was I would not vote for him under any circumstances whatsoever.

Hull is just the sort of place which has done badly out of EU membership - the last thing it needs is a pro-EU MP like Prescott.

He's also not the best advertisement for the city. Hull can do much better than Prescott.

TonyG

That would not be difficult.

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