UNDER the leadership of one of Tony Blair’s education secretaries, Estelle Morris, Labour’s Bright Future Taskforce is charged with developing “a national strategy to ensure all children recover the learning and social development lost during the pandemic.”
The taskforce includes a secondary head teacher, an NUS vice-president and a number of education sector worthies most of whom have extensive experience based in big cities.
It prompted this comment from a comrade “…good people, but no-one who you would describe as being on the left.”
Which raises the question, what is leftist education?
Education is, arguably, the most politically charged of Britain’s social enterprises.
TORY MP Jake Berry leads the Northern Research Group, the Conservative MPs who claim to know what voters in former Labour seats in the north really want. It turns out Berry thinks they want a fresh dose of Thatcherism.
They want deregulation and they want businessmen taking over local government, in a plan that was put together with the help of a giant bank with a history of big public subsidies and squeezing the “little” people.
This February, Berry co-wrote a widely reported policy pamphlet published by the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies it called for a Northern Big Bang. You wouldn’t think northern voters are clamouring for Thatcherism, with what that did to the north last time, but Berry thinks otherwise.
Editorial: The push on NHS pay paves the way politically Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer alongside NHS staff during a visit to Royal Derby Hospital, on March 4, 2021
IN a welcome foray into class politics, Sir Keir Starmer has centred Labour’s spring offensive on the NHS, as it prepares for the May contest that will see voters choosing candidates in local elections and the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and the London Assembly.
It is a necessary move made more urgent by the success relative in comparison to other capitalist economies of Britain’s vaccination programme which has given Boris Johnson’s government an undeserved chance to prettify its calamitous record.
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