Sorry…sorry…
I meant to say, as yet more MPs enter the Labour Party leadsdship contest, this piece in the Guardian shows how important it is to get a decent education to succeed in politics today.
The brothers grim
The piece reports, inter alia, on the Ed Balls campaign launch, commenting on the similarity between Balls and the other candidates, the Milliband brothers: PPEs at Oxford, jobs in the Labour apparat, then a parachute drop into a safe seat.
When I were a lad…
In response, Ed “Man of the People” Balls says that he “was born in Norwich, grew up just down the road in Nottingham”.
Fee by gum
He might have added that he went to a fee-paying school, Nottingham High School. (I expect he forgot.)
Well schooled
So, if he wins, it will mean nearly all of the Westminster parties will have leaders who went to fee-paying schools: Balls, Cameron, Clegg and Lucas.
Well, it’s equality of a sort, I suppose.
Here be dragons
An aside: the Guardian says:
Basildon isn’t in the Midlands. Unless you live in N4.
Interesting that most of the leaders of the NI and nat parties (Adams, Ritchie, Robinson, Salmond, Wyn Jones) are grammar school boys.