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Again to Barjon - I think that's what VAT on private school fees is designed to strive for.


Creating funds to help the State system catch up.


Abolishing private education isn't in the Labour manifesto - it's about giving the vast majority of kids a fairer life chance.


And what I suspect is that there are those who don't want to see the majority of kids given a fairer life chance.


They want to protect a system that makes it possible to purchase a better education, better networking opportunities and ensure that the existing wealth and power stays in the families where it currently resides.


Quite apart from being morally unfair, it's a recipe for an inefficient economy as too many key roles are held by people who are, to quote an old ex-Stanford colleague of mine, "aggressively positioned for their capabilities." (still makes me laugh 23 years later - hilariously-understated USA turn of phrase)


Joking aside, that really is bad for everyone.


Take Hancock - the only person pleased with how far he's got in life (apart from him) will be his mum.


The other 68 million of us have suffered from it.


We need tomorrow's captains of industry and other business plus senior politicians to be the smartest and the most hard working, the intellectual elite among the entire national pool, not just the pond confined to those whose parents had the cash to privately educate them.


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