Another Fiasco
May 10, 2011Like many, I listened to David Willets, the Universities Minister, explaining on the radio this morning that the Government was thinking of allowing rich parents to buy their offspring places at the best universities. This peculiar proposal was, among other things, to help with the the establishment of better social mobility. By the time I was able to apply the time to writing what would have been one of the most withering denunciations of public policy in the history of this blog, the Westminster sky fell in and statements were issued watering down the whole idea and pretending it was something else.
This, for the coalition government, is an alarming episode. Unfortunately it is not isolated but part of a pattern. This government, having started well and remaining strong on the economy and deficit reduction, is losing wheels from almost everything else. It is beginning to look headstrong, reactionary and inexperienced. There are so many u turns it is hard to know where actually it is or where it is trying to go. What is clear is this. It must get a grip or it will not go on for long.
I recall the ill fated government of Edward Heath, elected in triumph in 1970 and ejected in exasperation in 1974. It was full of reforming zeal, inspired by some kind of bonding conference at a Croydon Hotel, but its reforms went off the rails and the country ended up with a three day week and trade unionists in prison. That was that. Interestingly between 1964 and 1979 the Tories were in government for just four years. They were rescued from the doleful shadow of perpetual opposition by the rampant left going looney and the weakness of the Callaghan government. Oh, and a certain former Tory eduction secretary cum housewife, Margaret Thatcher.
If this Tory led government is going to avoid a Heath experience, it needs to buckle to. One more crackpot proposal to turn the social clock back to pre-war days and the Lib Dems, already uncomfortable with the project, will walk out altogether.
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