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6 Jul
1:03pm, 6 Jul 2024
24,350 posts
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3M
🤣🤣🤣
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6 Jul
1:11pm, 6 Jul 2024
5,730 posts
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paulcook
Just 4% (1 person, Lammy) of the cabinet are privately educated. Lowest comfortably ever. Attlee next at 25% and then May’s at 30%.
At least we’ve also - temporarily maybe - got rid of this awful ruling class.
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6 Jul
1:16pm, 6 Jul 2024
27,010 posts
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Bazoaxe
I don’t get this issue with private education. One regular poster here was privately educated and I know for a fact is a decent chap
Yes there are some who are not but to apply that label to all is not really helpful.
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6 Jul
1:28pm, 6 Jul 2024
45,014 posts
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SPR
It's about that being the only route into these roles...
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6 Jul
1:29pm, 6 Jul 2024
5,731 posts
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paulcook
I was privately educated. Not sure I’m a decent chap or not.
For me it’s the attitude of many of the privately educated members of parliament especially among the Tories. “We rule over you”. It’s an extension / throwback to 18th century politics. And secondly it can be very insular or create a limited viewpoint.
A better representation of views, as Starmer’s cabinet has, is progress.
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6 Jul
1:31pm, 6 Jul 2024
20,377 posts
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Dave W
It’s not the fact that some individuals are privately educated. It’s the overall makeup of the government. If sixty percent of the cabinet has been to Eton then they cannot possibly be representative of the country as a whole. And I would posit that because of their mostly privileged upbringing their viewpoints are skewed by that. Just look at Cameron and Osborne. No empathy whatsoever for the “lower classes” who were disproportionately affected by austerity.
The ethnic makeup or the male/female split should also be roughly proportional in my opinion.
If there is any overwhelming imbalance I don’t think it’s good for decision making.
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6 Jul
1:35pm, 6 Jul 2024
28,392 posts
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richmac
I agree, it's not about the individual's education but surely the government should reflect the make up of the nation in this way
Like Dave says the attitude of your Camerons and Johnsons (although he tried to hide it) towards the 'lower classes' was appalling
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6 Jul
1:49pm, 6 Jul 2024
45,015 posts
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SPR
Education is something the state should be providing to an exemplary level not something that should need payment as the only way to get it.
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6 Jul
2:03pm, 6 Jul 2024
32,721 posts
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Johnny Blaze
People can have a tendency to characterise criticism of private education as "class war".
There's a class war alright. Their class has waged war on mine for hundreds of years. It's still around, as a perusal of Parliament, the judiciary and the upper echelons of the civil service and "society" would reveal.
Any power the common man has, has had to be prised from their grasp piece by piece.
It's still around. It's just got better with the smoke and mirrors.
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6 Jul
2:03pm, 6 Jul 2024
32,722 posts
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Johnny Blaze
PS: Freedom for Tooting.
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