I really have veered a lot in my views in this leadership election. I’m not used to this phenomenon of genuinely not having made my mind up about something – it’s giddy stuff! So it was that while my default position at the beginning of the campaign was that I’d be voting for Clegg, by… Continue reading Chris Huhne: time to get serious
Tag: school-vouchers
Surplus School Places
More grist to the School Voucher debate mill: The number of surplus school places in England has risen to 758,000 – the highest level since 1998. This is the equivalent of more than 2,000 average-sized primary and 250 secondary schools lying empty. Later on it states that 12% of Primary School places and 7% of… Continue reading Surplus School Places
School vouchers: the new Tory approach
It would appear that my post on Tuesday about school vouchers was timely. The second in Direct Democracy’s series of Localist Papers is on precisely this topic. I haven’t read the pamphlet yet, but my knee-jerk reaction is indeed negative. On first reading their proposals sounded like the Monty Python right for men to have… Continue reading School vouchers: the new Tory approach