Why public schoolboys run Britain

[Deleted member 37751]

I've just watched a very interesting documentary on BBC2 about our 'political elite' being public school educated.

I'm not normally one to agree with Andrew Neil, yet in this case, the future doesn't look too pretty unless you're from a financially priviledged background.

Very sad indeed.....
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

 

[bolide]

What's sad about being educated properly?

Nick Froome

 

[d w124]

What's sad about being educated properly?

Nick Froome

 

[Sp!ke]

So who on here are public school educated and are any of you runing the country?

 

[Deleted member 37751]

What's sad about being educated properly?

Nick Froome

Is that what I said?

Try and watch the programme or at least a snippet to see what I mean.

 

[Ade B]

So who on here are public school educated and are any of you runing the country?

I went to state school and came out with CSEs in sweeping chimneys and rag n' bone.

 

[del320]

Yeah, bring back Derek Hatton, Ken Livingstone, Derek Robinson, Arthur Scargill, Tommy Sheridan, T Dan Smith, Peter Taaffe...

 

[d w124]

the future doesn't look too pretty unless you're from a financially priviledged background.

Very sad indeed.....

I did not click at the link but just read ^ and see how it sounds

 

[moonloops]

public or private, makes no difference. You need to be educated and fecking learn from your education and your parents/tutors..

 

[trapperjohn]

Yeah, bring back Derek Hatton, Ken Livingstone, Derek Robinson, Arthur Scargill, Tommy Sheridan, T Dan Smith, Peter Taaffe...

You forgot John Prescott

 

[Charles Morgan]

So who on here are public school educated and are any of you runing the country?

Yes
No

 

[Rory]

The programme didn't really say why - it just said they do.

I don't know - maybe it's a good thing that we've got "professional" politicians? Though I can't begin to imagine the frustration of the guy from Stoke-On-Trent who was denied the opportunity to even go before the selection committee to become the local Labour MP because they parachuted somebody in.

 

[Charles Morgan]

I know someone who has been a professional politician since he was elected Chairman of my university's Conservative Association. He has only ever done politics and is now Chairman of the 1922 committee. The sort of person who wants to be an MP at the age of 18 should be the one person prevented from standing.

 

[MOCAŠ]

So who on here are public school educated and are any of you runing the country?

Is that "running" or "ruining"? Perhaps both apply...

Hmm, I sense another class war in the offing so I'm going to sit this one out. Where's that popcorn emoticon when you need it?

 

[st4]

Is that "running" or "ruining"? Perhaps both apply...

Hmm, I sense another class war in the offing so I'm going to sit this one out. Where's that popcorn emoticon when you need it?

I prefer pick n mix myself...

All I will say on this subject is be wary of reverse snobbery.

 

[Dryce]

I don't know - maybe it's a good thing that we've got "professional" politicians?

It's not.

They have no idea of the real value of things.

And that's important. Whether you're buying aircraft carriers & scrapping Nimrods, arguing about pensions, setting taxes, or making procurement strategy.

 

[st4]

It's not.

They have no idea of the real value of things.

And that's important. Whether you're buying aircraft carriers & scrapping Nimrods, arguing about pensions, setting taxes, or making procurement strategy.

Agreed. Career politicians are now not in it for the belief and the desire to make change and things better, but to become a part of a "notting hill tufty club".

 

[camerafodder]

Is that "running" or "ruining"? Perhaps both apply...

Hmm, I sense another class war in the offing so I'm going to sit this one out. Where's that popcorn emoticon when you need it?

Maybe he really meant 'runing', a sort of educated graffiti.

 

[crockers]

Maybe he really meant 'runing', a sort of educated graffiti.

Do you have to be a Druid first or can anyone cast them?

 

[Sp!ke]

Yes
No

Me too, packed off to boarding school on the other side of the world aged 7 and a life of incarceration until I became an adult.

I don't run the country either... [DR Evil voice enabled]...but one day I'll rule the world.