Quote Originally Posted by WBA1955 View Post
A good education should be free to whoever wants one. Not everyone does.
For years a good education was only available to those who have rich parents, it still is really, though as Al says parents work hard to get their kid's the best.
Rich people don't want their kids mixing with your working class lot, they might pick up radical ideas, and heaven forbid these back street kid's might one day become politicians and have a say about how the country is run.
The Army was another closed shop, it was hard for working classes to get commissions while daddy could buy little Nigel one.
What I can't understand is why people jump on Labour politicians all the time, while continuing to vote Tory when they don't want the children of us scum mixing with theirs.
I think that it's snobbery, people who come from council estates and make good then think they are Tory, but they will never be one of them, they might find a use for them as a golfers caddy.
For what it's worth I have never lived in a council house on a council estate, but I have always had a sense of fair play and have never had a desire to tread on others to get another rung up the ladder.
Well put Des.

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