Letting state pupils down

I've just read an article that shows up two things that are very wrong with our country right now.

1) The large popular demand for Grammar schools is denied by all three of the main political parties ( many of them manned by public school educated career politicians ). What this shows is that our politics is broken. Taxpayers can't get the services they chose because the political class won't let them have them.

2) The brightest pupils are let down in the state system ( they have just closed down Blair's program to help gifted pupils to hand the money back for socialist meritocracy in schools ). Of course the fast track to socialist equality has always been to hold everyone back and punish those who achieve - and this is what our state education system has started to do as it focuses on C grade GCSE passes, at the expense of the brightest state pupils and then the socialists have the nerve to complain about the poor progress of state pupils into the best Universities and careers.

Somehow we need to be free of the political classes strangle hold on whats available and how taxpayers money should be spent.

Why salt cell will just make things worse - as socialism always does

When its been freezing for a few days and gritting makes the headlines the govt offers its excuse that its taken national command of the grit and salt supplies - to send it where its most needed.

But like so many other acts of socialism this one is ultimately counter productive.

Local councils have to decide how large salt stocks to carry, and this will relate to their budgets and council tax rates. If they gamble on a warm winter ( a BBQ winter to be cruel to the climate change propaganda office met office ) then they may win votes and thanks, If they lose then the govt helps them out.

But if they buy in diligent stocks then they definitely lose with the BBQ winter, and also lose if the winter is harsh as the salt will be taken from them by govt.

Hence the tactical decision taken for short term headlines is a strategic disaster.

We can see the same mechanism working where the govt punishes people who make provision for themselves in life.