The Bullingdon Club

This epitomises my hatred of the public education sector. And i use hatred intending the full emphasis of the word. I hate the concept of public schooling. I absolutely loath it. You should not be able to buy your way into a decedent education for your child. This exacerbates the socio-economic differences between people, preventing children from being together; from being children. Turning them against each other, creating uncertainty and fear of that that is not known.

In an article i was reading from yesterdays G2 magazine, the arguement is put across perfectly. And backed up with the most appauling statistics. 70% of the judicary in 2007 were publically educated. The majority of newspaper editors and Tory politicians are publically educated.

THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SECTOR ACCOUNTS FOR 7.3% OF THE ENTIRE SECTOR.

Why. Why the FUCK are comprehensive schools so shit? Because, lets face it. They are. And they're not getting ANY better. They are FAILING their pupils. They are failing us. And you have to ask why. But, equally, in an altogether different issue, yu have to ask; why are all these people privately educated? And its not because the intelligent are the financially able, it is because the normal ones, the run of the mill Jo Blogs, who are EQUALLY as intelligent as anyone else, are not given the opportunity. The decent education, the education that can compete with that of the Public sector. And you know why? Because there are no grammer schools. I'm sorry, i know the grammer school is a tory policy, but FUCK, its not like the comprehensives are doing any bloody good. They're getting worse.

If we had grammer schools, where people are given the education befitting their IQ, not comprehensive schools where people are given the education befitting their postcode, or public schools where people are given the education befitting their parents bank balance, there would be no glass ceiling. Shoving the best altogether and sticking two fingers up at their socio-economic background is what needs doing. Because right now, and i AM going to say it, people like me are being failed.

People like me, the clever working and lower middle classes are the ones who have been betrayed most by New Labour. And we have. The tuition fee; how the FUCK are people like me supposed to pay it? We can't. Simply put. We just can't. So they force us to take out loans. Push us further into debt. We don't get any bursaries because our parents actually earn a fucking living. But we're not rich enough to waft off the fee with a swish of the engraved fountain pen.

We go to schools that get worse by the year. We are taught by teachers that don't know thier arse from their elbow. By migrants from the ex-colonies. Because you get more in inner london you know, or at least, that's what they say on the adverts. We are in failing schools. How, HOW are we to attend oxbridge when we have resources that, when compared to what they have at eton, look like an IT lab cobbled together out of the remains of what was on sale at PC world 2 years ago.

When the media are forever going on about A-levels getting easier, what are we to think when we look at our grades? When the media rubbishes our achievements, and they are achievements, because, believe me, to achieve anything at a state comprehensive is amazing. What are we to think?

Are we to swallow the bullshit, apply for the biggest loan of our lives (exluding a mortgage) and do a degree whose place we had to fight tooth and nail for against upper middle class privately educated bastards?

And then, when we enter working life, are we to just sit there and applaud when bastards like good old David and Boris (the bastard) say they are men of the people. Men of the people do not join The Bullingdon Club, whose sole purpose is simply for the most elite men to get together, get pissed and destroy everything around them whilst having a jolly good time old fellow.

The elitism i can deal with (let the bastards drink together, i wouldn't want to have a pint with them), the misogyny too, but not the arrogance that comes with the action of paying someone off, in cash, after deliberately trashing their premises. Not the upper class snobbery. No.

That, that my dear, is why i am not a tory. Because that is what this party now is. Fuck Thatcher and her state education, i can hear them say, all the Old Etonians. And you know, 8% of the current tory frontbenchers went to eton. 62% were publically educated. Fuck eton. Seriously. Fuck it and its elitist bastards.