baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Yes, and it's a problem that they don't appear to be trying to solve (as it would entail decentralisation).
I'm for their educational plans, broadly speaking: they're supposedly based on good practice (the much-lauded Swedish model) and the private school system as it is in the UK currently is internationally renowned. If they relinquish control of exams and hand them over to universities (academic exams) and business (vocational), then so much the better.
Well, that's no different to the benefits system encouraging the creation of babies and attendant single mothers, except the outcome is more to be desired (children are born into families with greater resources); it's an attempt to solve an obvious social problem. Accord homosexual marriages the same status and the bigotry charge disappears. Not sure where racism enters into it.
Ah, the bigotry and racism quote wasn't connected to that particular point - just saying that they have a nerve, given the last Tory election campaign.
I take huge issue with your normativity in the last paragraph - 'greater resources' means what exactly, aside from the Tory god of money? A loving single parent family is surely to be preferred to a child growing up amidst a disastrous marriage - how many kids have wished their parents had split up earlier to avoid all that pain??
Re education - by private school system, you mean the academy system? I've heard plenty of bad things about it, not least . Whether it's internationally renowned (by who?) is of little concern.