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Has Labour decided to go retro?

Unemployment, negative growth, state intervention, Nationalisation, firms going bankrupt, a truck load of government debt,ministers wrongly dusting off the old copies of J.M. Keynes they were given as a joke Christmas present and had been using to prop up that wobbly table…the economy has a 70s feel already.

Now the Education Department is at it. Sorry, I mean the Department of Children, Schools and Families, or whatever it’s decided to call itself today.

They’ve decided in a report costing a no doubt huge amount of taxpayers’ cashdebt that;
Children should go to school even younger - presumably to minimise family life, despite the most successful systems Internationally starting later and recognising the social and educational value of family.
English, Maths and Science should be abolished in favour of six broader areas of learning entitled Understanding English, Communication and Languages; Mathematical Understanding; Scientific and Technological Understanding; Human, Social and Environmental Understanding; Understanding Physical Health and Well-being; and Understanding Arts and Design - I guess because they like to confuse parents, create acronyms and talk nonsense.

How very 1960s it all is. It didn’t work then, and won’t now. It’s just pure insanity.

The way BAA and the government treats residents concerned about airport expansion is terrible, and I oppose the enlargement of airports over people’s private property.

But I also object to protests such as this, which serve only to damage the anti-expansion case.

Instead of concerned residents they can identify with, people will see environmental extremists breaking the law and endangering security - not least by occupying the time of security staff which would be better used elsewhere.

Instead of the message of ordinary people who’s homes face great disturbance, or demolition if extra runways get the green light, they will get messages about CO2 and a return to the stone age.

But most of all they will see ordinary people’s Christmas getaways and other trips being severely disrupted, shortened or cancelled altogether.

It’s no way to win friends and influence public opinion, and contrasts strongly with the professional and reasoned opposition of the Stop Stansted Expansion campaign.