Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Over my dead body. Friends! To the barricades!
They never explain how destroying excellent schools will make all the other schools better, do they? They just persist in this mad idea that levelling everything downwards will somehow improve what's left because it just will. They never acknowledge that the removal of privileged access to quality does not mean that that quality is spread more widely. It never has in history because that's not how the supply of goods and services works.

It's purely envy, spite and magical thinking - the equivalent of thinking that closing down Michelin-starred restaurants will somehow make Gregg's food better.