CONSERVATIVE EDUCATION SHOCK ALMOST!

Driving to work yesterday, I had difficulty understanding the news, I thought I'd heard that David Willetts, Tory education spokesman, would along with the Tory party, no longer back grammar school education, all day I worried whether I had gone barking bonkers mad, with some stress-related disease or at the very least gone deaf.

But a quick glance of the Internet later, confirms what I thought I'd heard. This being confirmed, with an outburst from Roger Gale, MP for Thanet North, who has apparently launched a campaign to oppose David Willetts plans to halt any new grammar schools.

I can just imagine quite a few of them Conservatives, choking on their toast and marmalade, Hooray! But how long will this policy survive?

To my mind, there are two main kinds of Tories, these are Congenital Tories who were born with blue blood in their veins of which, there are two subcategories 'County Tories' these are from upper-class families whose wealth is derived from land or the professions and then there's the 'Basic Tory' whose background is small business and small-minded. Then we have the other main type 'Conditioned Conservative' again two subcategories 'Brainwashed Tory' this being the person who's read the Daily Mail once too often and the 'Self-made Tory' this last type being the only one who has through hard work, luck and ambition managed to climb up to the top, easy to spot since they display signs of intelligent life, assuming you fail to notice they will generally make you feel inferior. Only one of these types is able to understand the waste of talent resulting from the grammar-school system and they are in a minority.

Now as much as I mistrust the Tories, when they to go further and abolish the appalling socially divisive and evidently unfair grammar-school system, then I think they would get my vote. However I think such a policy will be unlikely, to form any part of a future Tory manifesto since, for most Conservatives only a few of the 'Self-made' kind actually have the intelligence and sense of fairness, to realise that selection of ability at the age of 10 favours middle-class children, condemning poorer children to an inferior education, as in Kent.

It's ironic that Roger Gale, feels a Conservative policy favouring a more equitable education policy is a move towards socialist policies. Roger Gale seems totally oblivious to the fact that for six years of secondary education, under the Kent grammar-school system, all competitive instincts are artificially removed from children with 80 per cent roughly condemned to Kents inferior second rate school system.

Roger Gale ought to think again, simply put for all Tories, who are meant to understand the competitive system and incentives, selection at the age of 11 removes incentives and motivation from children during their most important years.

Finally as with most political parties, most of the members of the Conservative Party are made up of unquestioning conformists, and really the Tories have not actively promoted grammar schools for some time, so really Roger Gale, unlike his constituents, ought not to get to fretful over this one, because by the time we get round to a general election, there'll be no mention of removing, what many consider a corrupt and divisive education system.

Gale: Another move 'towards socialist policies'