It’s about time we tackled the Big One: Public Schools...
Some of my best chums went to them. I wish they didn’t exist. The schools, not the chums.
They should have been scrapped in 1945. The Labour government had the chance, but bottled it. They couldn’t take on the English ruling class. No-one can. I’ve droned on about this, like the rabidly left-wing Dave Spart, for yonks. I must be suffering from chips on shoulders and the politics of envy.
Maybe, but I’m right. Tedious, but right.
Where do we start?
Above all, so few children attend these schools. Six per cent! Is this some kind of finite number? Are no more sufficiently gifted? This six per cent, this puny cohort, mostly White, male, smug, will brazenly run most of the country.
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