At the chalkface: The Election

The election result beckons. I’m assuming doom, that the Tories will have a most whopping landslide, that the populace will vote for the sainted Theresa, because she is terrifically strongandstable in a church fete, black-hearted sort of way, and that they will not vote for Jezza, because he’s terrifically weak and raving in a bearded Marxist-Leninist sort of way. Just think – we could have better hospitals, schools, trains, energy for a start – and no tuition fees, no atom bombs...

Well, we don’t want that kind of thing.

So... what’s in store for education?

The same old and then some, I fear. All the lovely promises – a return to the 50s, more grammar schools, more bent Academies, more costly Free schools, more overcrowded classrooms, more thin gruel for breakfast, more infant paupers croaking in the lunch hour and more teachers going broke or barmy or living in a matchbox or on the streets.