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Sutton Trust produce education backgrounds of the political parties.

13 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by spideysaves in Education, Politics, Social History

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  • 54% of Conservative MPs elected in the 2010 general election attended fee-paying schools
  • The figure is higher than rival political parties – with 40% of Liberal Democrat MPs, and 15% of Labour MPs privately educated
  • In the UK, 7% of the school population attend private schools
  • 38% of Conservative MPs were educated at Oxford or Cambridge University

Can you believe that out of 7% of the population who attended private school make up 54% of the Tory Party, so much for Parliament being reflective of society.

I am suprised though that only 38% were Oxbridge educated.

 

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and the status quo was resumed.

15 Saturday Oct 2011

Posted by spideysaves in Politics, Social History, Sport

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football, public school, rugby world cup, wales rugby loss

Yes Wales were unlucky to go through to the Rugby world cup final, and people will return from watching egg chasing to watching the football. Every 4 years the Rugby World cup comes around and a nation becomes gripped by a sport that the majority of us despised as kids at school. A game built around brute force and testosterone, played by valiant men, but the truth of the matter is that any rugby player I have ever met is a misogynistic arrogant fucker. A thuggish game played by gentlemen, I believe the quote goes, so it’s no surprise that it is popular in male public schools; come to think of it most public school people I have ever met have been  misogynistic arrogant fuckers. What a strange coincidence!

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Private Schools to keep charitable status.

14 Friday Oct 2011

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charity commission, Eton, nuclear bunker, People for portland Road, ppr, public school

I wasn’t aware that independent private schools even had charity status until Ian Bone highlighted this issue with Eton but it baffles me as to why it is allowed. I have been researching how to get an organisation registered for charity status, as People for Portland Road (the collective I work with to make South Norwood a better place!) would benefit from this, and you have to evidence the benefits that you give to the element of society that you claim to be supporting, monetary as well as physical.

I’m not sure how this applies to private schools. Perhaps it’s becaus ethey give bursaries to the poor to allow them the privelidge of going to their school? Perhaps it’s because all their pupils will benefit society in the long run? Or perhaps they have exploited some slack definition by the charity commission, and utilising to benefit nobody but there own benefactors? May I even go further to suggest that affluent people may be able to use the charity status of the school in order to make their own accounts efficient from a tax perspective.

Any institution that promotes and practices elitism, and has an admission policy that only favours those who are deemed desirable to attend, should be taxed more not less. At the least they should be only given charity status if they have there own nuclear bunker!

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