Showing posts with label polly toynbee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polly toynbee. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Polly sees through Cameron as if he was made of glass

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"He dangled an extraordinary array of un-Conservative ideas. "People haven't understood the scale and depth of the family-friendly reform we want," he said, "getting family finance right" by "redistributing money to poor households", "giving families more time to spend together", "affordable child care" and "taking on the unrelenting commercial influences on childhood". On all of these, the Tories opposed every measure Labour brought in - tax credits, childcare, flexible working and anything the CBI disliked. So is this real change or just a wise acceptance of things already done? Cleverly, there was not one bankable promise."

Clever, but in an evilly calculating way.

Monday, November 05, 2007

faith schools pushing up stealth selection practices

The government seem to think that the reason faith schools get better results is because of their religious ethos. Actually its just because the selection criteria on the basis of religion gives them ample reason to reject less able pupils just as grammar schools used to do.

Addition:

Polly Toynbee also thinks faith schools suck ass.