I watched a programs over two parts aired on the BBC recently. It was called Prescott and the class system.
My only real knowledge of prescott before this program was that he was my MP and that he smacked some farmer type bloke that threw an egg in hs face in 2001.
I was surprised to learn that he was just as incensed at the inequality of this country as I am.
As we all know and accept (for reasons unknown to me) money and parental status is the difference between "success" and mediocrity.
Take two people. Both start with the same intelligence and behavioural tendencies. One obtains a PhD at 30 and the other is packing cucumbers at 30. Which one started with parents with a reasonable amount of money and lived on a nice owner occupied housing estate and which one started off with parents on benefits and lived on a council estate?
The answer to this is fairly obvious. I say fairly obvious because with exceptional drive the working class kid with unambitious parents can make it good. 99.9% of the time the doctor is the one on the owner occupied housing estate. Some would say that because of the success of some working class kids this proves that Britain is upwardly mobile. Nonsense.
With exceptional drive and ambition the middle class kid can become Prime Minister. With exceptional drive and ambition the working class kid can become middle class!!! Surely we can all see the nonsense that is going on here.
The talent that is wasted in this country through social ignorance is a tragedy.
The only way to right this is to fund state education properly. Reverse the charity status of private schools and use the tax collected to improve state schools. Lower class sizes, 1 to 1 text books and teaching according to the highest ability instead of the lowest is the answer. We also need to get rid of the teachers that came from lower middle class families and can'tdo anything but teach because they haven't got the brains. They just want the money.
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I think I agree with you on this Bob, It really irked me though, when Prescott was having a go at people to trying to better themselves or their children with public school education, when he is sat there in his big house with the Jag parked outside!
I think you could be a fantastic MP but you need to figure out which side of the table you`re on. I`m sure burning the Mail heads towards being an activist but then I only proof read it; I`m not really whether you are supprtive of a Communist society or a Capitlaist one - you seem to be aware of the downfalls of both. The class divides are a bugbear of scummy `Western` outfits (like us and the US I`m afraid) as are McDonalds, Emotional Intelligence meetings and Spam. The problem with Commy stuff is that people get pissed off, don`t try hard, and a dictatorship is formed to keep people in line (this was your experience at Nov!!!?)
I don`t really think much talent comes from poor backgrounds - this is usually due to the fact that the parents are off their heads during the most crucial years of upbringing. Or is this just a really ignorant view.
There isn`t too wrong with the fact that we have to pay tax; it`s just the truly awful system that we have in this country for paying it. I`ve never really understood from the age of about 3 why we pay 47,845 different taxes and we`re expected to work it out for ourself after all that. 1 taxation calculation - simple and more importantly, totally understood by both sides with nothing hidden. Also, there is no doubting that tax is badly spent to infuriate us even more; at least according to the tabloids we spend billions each year on immigrant warlords with 8 kids to 9 Dads! Never mind the mail!
Good piece - even if you were stoned at the time.
S. Dolan
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