1) If you're getting only 25% of the people who would most be helped by social mobility then an explanation is required.
2) Left wing councils do tend to be elected by affluent middle class areas. Conservative vote tends to be rural and the super wealthy. So Islington North, labour, Kensington and Chelsea, Tory. I have no idea whether grammar schools tend to survive more in wealthy or poorer areas. Eyeballing the list it does not appear to be exclusively (or even mainly) wealthy areas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_England
3) Surely a completely specious point. That he happened to have been helped by something does not indicate it is generally helpful -- it's a single data point. Like saying to that Malala girl "Well, being shot by the Taliban worked out quite well for you, why do you want to stop it happening to otehrs".
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Date: 2013-12-16 11:08 am (UTC)2) Left wing councils do tend to be elected by affluent middle class areas. Conservative vote tends to be rural and the super wealthy. So Islington North, labour, Kensington and Chelsea, Tory. I have no idea whether grammar schools tend to survive more in wealthy or poorer areas. Eyeballing the list it does not appear to be exclusively (or even mainly) wealthy areas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_England
3) Surely a completely specious point. That he happened to have been helped by something does not indicate it is generally helpful -- it's a single data point. Like saying to that Malala girl "Well, being shot by the Taliban worked out quite well for you, why do you want to stop it happening to otehrs".