Posted on 01/18/2010 9:46:12 AM PST by mattstat
England is about to—it hurts to type this—Unleash Aspiration!
According to the Daily Mail:
Labour will declare war on the benefits of a middle class childhood today as Gordon Brown spells out the latest steps in the government’s equality crusade.
Top lawyers, accountants, bankers and doctors will be ordered to draw up plans to make sure that their professions become less elitist – so they employ fewer middle class children.
Professionals will be told that poor children must be helped into the top jobs, at the expense of those who have benefited from their personal connections or education.
Universities will also be told to give the benefit of the doubt to poorer pupils when they are offering places and gloss over poorer marks if the applicant attended less illustrious schools.
The official report shows that the overwhelming majority of senior judges, doctors, CEOs, and such forth folk have gone to good schools. But only about 1 in 15 of “ordinary” Englanders have.
This represents an intolerable inequality. A wrong which must be lefted!
Giving an edge to poor people, who suffer undeservedly says the Brit Prime Minister, will “un...
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Goodbye to a job well done.
So if you go to a hospital in England there will be a pretty good chance that you’ll get a doctor who thinks “stroke” means you wanked too hard.
Fortunately, Gordon Brown and the Labour Party aren’t going to be in power much longer, thanks to idiocy like this.
/sarc
Communism gone berserk
Yes, they must remove all advantages brought about by good, responsible parenting. Perhaps they should simply take newborns and give the middle class babies to poor people, and the poor babies to the middle class parents. That would start leveling things out much sooner (until they run into the stone wall of innate ability).
What fools!
I don’t think that is actually sarcasm in the UK. Or in some areas of the US.
Quit working so hard, stop trying. If you are born with the wrong skin color when applying for a job it just won’t matter. Robin hood in reverse. All bow before the PC god.
Affirmative action in the UK. Will this be the first time they’re using it?
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