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A COUNTRY DIVIDED !
Left Field
Jun 15th, 2022
With a primitive first past the post system of electing governments the proposal to " level up " is unachievable as such an electoral system embeds social divisions and embeds the distance between the haves and the have nots. So what a foolish slogan for the prime minister to endlessly spout  - but just one among many !
Another division that is becoming more obvious is that between the intelligently informed and the not so well informed, ie the gullible.
I had a very good demonstration  of this some years ago when I organised a reunion of the boys who started with me at a grammar school in a far northern town in 1952 when I discovered that of the 30 boys in my class only 4 of us had moved away from our home town and its immediate environs - to London or the surrounding home counties or to Hong Kong in one case. 
The factor that united this adventurous quartet  was that they were the brightest boys in the class.
So it is no wonder that Brexit happened and that Johnson won an election - it was these less well informed, gullible people who made them happen!!
This is a real problem if we want to move forwards as a nation. There is unfortunately no easy solution. Proportional representation would be an important step in the right direction. Educational reform is also clearly needed too but nothing really important has happened in education since the Butler reforms of 1944 !!
1 Comments:
John Smith
Surely you have contradicted yourself regarding this...
The brighter boys have worked harder and actually looked after themselves instead of sponging off the country!
It has nothing to do with education as it proves it works, as you have stated, there are bright people and thick people who come from the same class.
Brexit - - who wants to be told what to do by a bunch of arrogant hypocrites in Brussels who none of us know - Best out of the EU.
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