Michael Gove's announcement about liberating primary schools from LEA control is the best possible news. Labour and the NUT will fight it with every weapon they can find for as the NUT correctly says, it means the break up of 'state education'.
Oh, please God let it be so.
Brown's thoroughly dishonest 'raising millions of children out of poverty' is actually about 'raising children' out of relative poverty. That is, giving money earned by and taken from the average working person to people just below their median income level. All that's needed to obtain money from the Robin Hood fund, is a child.
No need to work, if you're an adult. No need to educate your children. They can follow your path. It works. No need to educate yourself, if you're a child. 'Mum's doing all right, int she?'
If you're an uneducated girl, get yourself pregnant and your future income is assured. No need to think about a father for the child. Sisters are doing it for themselves, now. 'Them women at the Social will see you're OK. If the kids want something special you can try charging for a bit of the other to make a bit extra. If there's another kid, well, same thing all over again. Men? Don't make me laugh. All bastards.'
And the boys merrily get their end away any time they feel like it. Well, why the hell not? It's what boys do. 'Eh? Get a job and do what some git tells you all day? Nah. Not worth it, anyway. Make a bit, ducking and diving, nicking in the shops and selling it round the pubs. If you're hard enough, there's drugs but you gotta watch yourself because the gangs don't take prisoners no more.'
Don't laugh. It's a system. It works. Polly Toynbee and the members of her Comfy Club make sure it works.
'Vote Labour! Keep the wicked fascist capitalists out! They will stop your money! Only Labour loves you! Only Labour will give you money whether or not you care for your children! If the government is not on your side, you are alone!' (copyright David Miliband)
Oh, yes, indeed. Keep the educated classes out of power lest they spread their 'independence' contamination to those Labour needs to be dependent on them - and grateful - so that they keep Labour in power.
DO NOT EDUCATE THE PEASANTS. How you gonna keep them down on the farm? How are you going to hold on to their votes, if the Tories offer them a way out through education?
'No selection! It's elitist and elitism is wicked!' Well, no, not in sport, obviously. But that's no problem because sporting trophies don't make you a threat to the established order. Labour's established order. Hey - who said 'all shall have prizes'?
Prior to the 1960s, most of Labour's leaders were principled men and women who had come through the 20's and 30s and the war, and were actually on the side of the poor and naturally believed in education for all. They supported grammar schools because they were the most effective means ever devised for lifting people out of poverty.
Unfortunately for the Project, grammar schools educated people so that their alumni, of whom I am one, thought for themselves. They chose, in disconcertingly large numbers, to challenge socialism and even refute it.
Something had gone badly wrong. Not with socialism - obviously. With the education system. It was sowing the seeds of the failure of The Marxist Project. Something had to be done.
Anthony Crosland had the answer. 'If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.'
That's the idea. Stop educating the group from which the challenge will otherwise come! Close the grammar schools, as the Marxist Martin McGunness is doing today in Northern Ireland. It was and remains the first vital step in the Project, as revised by the experience of actually educating the masses.
The revolutionaries of the Swinging Sixties knew what they were doing and they soon came to power on the left of the Labour Party. (They control the European Parliament, now, by the way. This is not an accident. 'Green' is the chosen name of the second generation of the same family.)
Make no mistake, the 60s were a real revolution. 'Swinging Sixties.' Sounds fun, doesn't it? It wasn't. I was there. Forget the sweet music. It was a time of viciousness. Teacher or student, if you stood in their way, the Left and especially the powerful NUS would destroy you. Remember ULU, Jack Straw? Trevor Phillips? I remember you.
Well, you won, you smiling, smarmy, controlling, fucking evil destroyers of lives and of my country, but unfortunately for you it's almost over. Before you die, I hope to God Almighty that you see the social hell which you have built reduced to smoking rubble, a free man or woman standing atop it, damning you to hell at the top of his or her voice for the destruction you and your kind have wrought on the benighted, poverty-stricken innocents whose lives you blighted unto the third and fourth generation. And may that cry of rage be the last thing you hear before you are hoist on to your lamp-post, your feet basted in your own blood to attract the wolves. But I digress.
Since the Marxists' Gramscian long march through the education establishment began in the 1960s, they have systematically destroyed the British state education system and done their best to destroy the private education system too, it being the last redoubt of those who defy them.
The key to all of this lay in the schools. They had to be be destroyed, rebuilt and controlled.'There shall be no educated people. There shall only be trained people. We shall have a national curriculum and we shall control all teachers and all teaching methods. We shall set targets and examinations and we shall train children to pass those examinations. But we will not educate them and we shall not permit anyone else to educate them. We shall prevent parents from educating their children as they wish. All children shall be educated in accordance with The Project. Anyone who does not cooperate will be punished.
'Depriving parents of education, we shall also make it unnecessary. We shall tax those who create and earn wealth and give their money to the uneducated, rendering education otiose among the dependent classes.
'Unable to provide for themselves, they will be totally dependent upon us. Their only alternative is too desperate to contemplate and in any event, they will not be capable of considering any alternative the possibility of which we shall train them to deny.
'We shall make a growing constituency an offer they simply cannot refuse: Vote Labour.
They will breed, of course. We need to destroy any concept of 'marriage' because marriage means mutual support and extended families which are inimical to The Project because they must depend on the state alone. If the government is not on your side, you are alone. There will be propaganda to teach them to sneer at it: 'Marriage oppresses women. Marriage is middle class. Marriage is not for the likes of us.'
Well, it happened.
For generations, the least able British people have been carefully taught to disregard education. Compare and contrast with every other society in the world, whether in fabulously wealthy North America, commercially competitive China (which discarded socialism decades ago in favour of state capitalism) or desperately poor rural Africa where every barefoot indigent child wants pencils before anything else.
For 95 per cent of the world, education is regarded as the sine qua non, the fast highway out of poverty. Well, quite. But not in Labour's Britain, where millions of welfare dependants see little or no point in the 'education' they are offered. Where parents side with violent and ineducable children against their teachers.
Polly Toynbee, one of Brown's chief cheerleaders, albeit an unbelievably thick one, wails daily (and gets well paid for it) that the privately educated are running farther and farther ahead of 'ordinary people'.
Well of course they fucking are, you evil tart. YOU KNOW that your system is DESIGNED to hold people back, you lying bitch. Labour has constructed a system in which nobody may be educated so it is hardly surprising that the educated escapee ends up having all the advantages that reality can confer. Think about it: in the land of the blind proletariat, the one-eyed man is... oh.
Every action produces a reaction. Labour's policies have ensured that Britain now has Europe's greatest home-grown social breakdown problem. The underclass is vast and getting out of control. And, increasingly and crucially, it does not vote.
Gordon Brown deliberately spent the workers' money on trying to salvage what was supposed to be his core vote but the workers have been getting restless... and the money has begun to run out...
The plan is backfiring. The welfare bill, and the payroll of the burgeoning number of those employed to administer it and to allay its worst consequences (child abuse, gang crime, drug wars, ill health...) is becoming unaffordable.
See, Polly? See? You see what happens when Socialism clashes with reality? Socialism loses.
The reality of the mess he has made catching up with him, Brown saw his vote dwindling, so he cynically supplemented it by encouraging mass immigration of thousands of non-productive village peasants who could be herded by Labour's 'community leaders' into the correct pen at election time. A corruption-friendly postal vote system was put in place to ensure that the 'community leaders' delivered the correct election results. The police were ordered to cooperate with the 'community leaders' and to turn a blind eye to any little unBritish foibles imported by the new communities, like electoral fraud, Yardie culture, wife-beating and so on.
Advancing his plan -- remaining in power for ever through massive exploitation of the people, destruction of the constitution and corrupt practices -- has proved cripplingly expensive, but it wasn't Gordon Brown's money. He had the power to borrow and spend, tax and spend -- and he did, like a drunken sailor. He talked of 'investment', colouring himself virtuous and his opponents malign.
He even suckered the terminally vain and stupid Teresa May into playing him at this game which of course she lost, the blind bitch. She gratuitously handed Brown the Ace of Trumps with her suicidal 'Nasty Party' lecture (on television!) to Conservative party workers. They should have grabbed her by the hair and pulled her from the platform there and then and taken her out and hanged her. It would have saved David Cameron several years work and might have prised Brown's fingers off the levers of government years ago. Please God, if there is any F in Justice, let her never be given a peerage. As it was, Gordon Brown simply blinked in disbelief at his luck.
Brown has always known it would not last for ever but he thought he could spin it out ('spin' - geddit?) until he retired from office as a great Labour Prime Minister to which end his chief aims were the growth of his client base ('helping hardworking families') and the utter destruction of those who would stand in his way -- the Conservative Party. Not in that order.
The money was always going to run out. Brown has merely brought the day of reckoning forward by overplaying his hand, out of sheer hubris. (Blair held him back, to an extent, for a time.) He bred his captive voters too quickly. Social disorder is increasing and dysfunctional towns and cities are multiplying. Public health is suffering. The prisons are bursting while there is nowhere to put the increasing numbers of hard criminals. It's all going terribly wrong. The welfare state is sinking.
And the Internet is getting people talking... a revolt is brewing...
And now, Events.
There he was, bouncing and spinning like a glowering beach ball when the banking system which he had done so much to build up, which for years he bled for tax and which his ignorant machinations... OOPS!... wrecked, collapsed.
Credit crunch. Recession. Brown's tax-cow has no more money. The foreign lenders whom he is begging to bail him out are giving him disbelieving sideways looks. The Project is halted by the filthy capitalists reality.
The Labour Party has nothing left to offer Britain. No money for its underclass. Not even integrity. Brown and his government are finished, seen for what they are: corrupt, incompetent, destructive and nasty. Their death throes will continue for a while and but there is no recovery.
The Conservatives, which is to say, educated people -- those kept out of Labour's destructive 'system' thanks to their families' hard work and sacrifice -- and others who somehow have retained contact with reality and commonsense, must soon don overalls, thigh boots, industrial gloves and gas masks, and start wading into Labour's deep, deep shit and try their best to set Labour's slaves free of their chains. The clean-up and rehabilitation will take decades.
You may have to go armed, Mr Cameron. There will be rage. There will also be suffering, because there will have to be amputations without anaesthetic. There is not enough anaesthetic in the world to ease the pain the patient must endure if his life is to be saved.
And the work must start in the schools.
What an article! You have put into words exactly what I have thought for years.
ReplyDeleteWell said.
An excellent article. Well said.
ReplyDeleteHowever, what few are willing to mention is that Brown and his cohorts are merely treading water, holding on until 2010 when all 27 member states ratify Lisbon.
Brown does not care for the young, he does not care for the economy, he does not care for Britain, he only cares for the day when after Lisbon he can hand responsibility for everything over to Brussels.
This is smoke and mirror politics at its worst, because the real reasons behind the lame, weak excuses for policy that come out of Westminster are merely a holding action, just waiting for the final few countries to sign up to Lisbon.
Then, none of us will have a say, Tory, LibDem, LPUK none of us. It will all be decided by the unelected in Brussels.
We have to force the change before that happens, otherwise....
And I thought I was angry.
ReplyDelete1984 meets Brave New World.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent post and you've hit the nail right on the head.