Tapestry Talks

Osborne's Choice For Parents Should Be matched With Freedom For Schools

The policy should not be freedom for parents with vouchers to move schools combined with compulsion on schools to accept, with selection policy imposed by government.

The freedom granted to parents should be matched with equivalent freedom granted to schools to run themselves as they see fit, not according to the requirements of posturing politicians.

Only if the two parties to the educational contract, the parents and the schools, are set free will the benefits flow to the children.

The only problem is that government has put itself in the way of what would naturally occur when those two parties desire the same outcome - well educated children. Governments have agendas which do not include high standards of education, such as appearing to follow correct political dogmas. Answer must be to get rid of politicians and legislators from the process entirely.

Grammar School Play Buries The News Nicely

The political airwaves are filled with the non-news about david Cameron's non-educational policy yet again.  So what are the stories they are keeping out, using this as a news blanket?

The primary one is the Labour's Deputy Leadership battle, about to be won by Hilary Benn.  The last thing Gordon Brown wants is his deputy having the legitimacy of being elected while he's allowed to stroll in without a vote.  So that whole story is buried nicely by running Cameron's grammar school play.

To that you might add Britain's attacks on Russia requesting the extradition of Litvinenko's murderer.  No mention again of the fact that Litvinenko had made a video exposing the full list of the FSB's agents in Europe, with Mario Scaramella.  He was the Italian who they tried to frame for a week, to destroy his credibility, so the penetration of the EU by the FSB story was buried.

Romano Prodi, the head of the EU Commission and Italian PM was the KGB's top agent in Europe, according to Litvinenko.  No wonder he's dead, and no wonder the media don't mention any of his revelations.

OK, back to grammar schools......

Hilary Benn The New Blair. Cameron Move Over.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=592172007 reports Hilary Benn claiming EU concerns over Gordon Brown not being supportive are wrong. Seems like Benn is acting as spokesman/apologist for Brown.

They'd make a good pair - the silent brooder, and the skilled communicator, both keen of raiding the pockets of the rich to donate to the world's poor. Tories, take cover as Benn shoots into the lead on betting for Deputy Leader.