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Not there on merit

Friday, 9th May 2008

In the Guardian, John Harris is set the task of answering this question:

Is meritocracy dead?
Clearly it is at the Gaurdian, given the space it allocates to a writer who spends 3000 words on the issue of private school pupils doing better than state school educated pupils, and then dismisses the inadequacy of state education as an explanation as "stock Tory stuff".

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Joshua

May 9th, 2008 12:18pm

"Clearly it is at the Gaurdian"

Shouldn't that be "Grauniad"?

Alf Tupper

May 11th, 2008 9:28am

From John Harris's text:

"...if David Cameron makes it, (he) will be the first Eton-educated prime minister since Harold Macmillan in 1957."

I think 51 years is a fair old trial period isn't it?

Seeing as those occupying the post in the meantime have made such a bairn's arse of the country, perhaps its time we let a neotoff have a go.

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