Amused to hear a report on the UBS ‘rogue trader’ Kweku Adoboli labelling him as the product of a private school background by the BBC today….is that relevant? The BBC didn’t feel it was necessary to tell us of his immigrant background….all immigrants are ‘good’ for Britain of course.
The BBC has nothing but great praise for Private Schools, honest (odd really as so many of them went to such schools)…..so much so that they like to showcase them every chance they get as here in ‘New tricks’ where the episode ‘Old School Ties’ reveals that the murderously criminal Headteacher is a descendant of a family that indulged in slavery, had connections to the KKK (created by Democrats) and supported Blackshirted Fascist Oswald Moseley…who was of course a Socialist from the Labour Party….ahem….and the school only accepts white, English boys as pupils.
Not forgetting the obligatory rant about ‘privilege’ and the lack of opportunity for the poor…which drives them to crime.
New Tricks is usually good if you can filter out the lefty politics….but it is the BBC up to its old tricks as usual.
“Kweku Adoboli ”
“Not from round these parts? As they used to say in the Western saloons.
Don’t forget that the BBC’s views on education are those of the Guardian set, including Polly Toynbee, who thinks that comprehensives improve social mobility.
The BBC has now reached new fields in its multicultural agenda.
In two recent ‘factual’ prorammes, as diverse as the British Reformation and Wartime Farming, they have spent a considerable % of the programme time making the case that Britain was not exclusively white during the period in question. Well it may be true that a tiny % of the population wasn’t white and British at the relevant period, but it isn’t of any historical significance and isn’t worth mentioning in the context of the programmes.
Of course the BBC spend time on it because they think it helps push their multicultural agenda, but it actually is so out of place in the context of the programmes that it is ridiculous .
It’s true that there have been small communities of black people in ports like Deptford and Tiger Bay (where Shirley Bassey came from) for a long time. No doubt there were also people from China and the Indian subcontinent as well.
However, as old photographs and film footage shows, the non white percentage of the country was miniscule and it is totally dishonest for the BBC and Danny Boyle to pretend otherwise.
At the risk of really stirring things up, one could probably argue that, since the 18th century, parts of Africa were whiter than the UK was black.
I have to agree Doublethinker – the item about a black woman in the Women’s Land Army was jarringly put into the War Time Farming programme. It was obviously prised into a programme that otherwise would have been ‘hideously white’ producing one more crass and more patronising than if it had not been there at all.
All part of the BBC/Left’s continuous drip, drip of re-writing history, the theme in this case being ‘Britain has always been a country of immigrants’.
Yes, la Toynbee believes so passionately in comprehensive education she sends her own kids to fee-paying schools.
She doesn’t want her upper-class brats to be socially mobile, as that could only be downward mobility.
My god, if they did they may have to meet those working class oiks that support EDL. That would never do for Lady Toynbee.
Private schools are not as exclusive as the BBC and their fellow travellers would have you think.
Very true. Eton and Harrow are not typical.
I went to a very modest private school in West Yorkshire as a day boy. Fees were kept as low as possible but, as a result, we weren’t pampered with luxurious facilities. The small swimming pool wasn’t filtered or heated (yes, I know – “you were lucky”). Significantly, up to “O” level, the average class size was between 30 and 40 but discipline was maintained, so we actually learned something.
And there you have it.
In Africa they can teach classes of 60+ to speak English yet in England they can’t get 30 to learn French.
The difference? Discipine and motivation. Simples.
In London they can’t get classes of 30 to speak English. Ya get me an ting innit blud.
Thats with the kids who english is their first language not foreigners
And fear. Respect for the teacher is absolute in the third world and enforced physically if needs be, nor is there any fear of infringing childrens ‘rights’ or causing ‘offense’.
The bBC would be better served if they looked into the fascination of people from West Africa and bank accounts. Mr Adoboli hails from Ghana and only recently I received a heart breaking email, from a gentleman in Nigeria, who needs help by way of using my bank account details.
Yes, it seems that the West African banking system has serious problems when it comes to transferring millions of dollars. Hardly a day goes by with the wife /son/daughter/brother/uncle/dog, of some recently deceased wealthy chap, begging me for my help in transferring funds out of the country (Nigeria). It is tragic.
If you google his name and ‘public school’ you’ll find the Mail and Telegraph feature his public school background very prominently; the Telegraph telling us he was head boy at Ackworth.
I couldn’t find the link to the BBC report. Any link?
The left have played an absolute blinder on educashun.
They have managed to portray private schools as ‘for the posh’ and grammar schools as divisive. This is partly, of course, true and like all good lies that element of truth makes it easier to believe.
They have, through the National Curriculum, created an environment where only left-wing ideals are allowed. Any teacher that objects is hounded from the class room. They have encouraged pupils to be wayward and disrespectful, allowing them to make false accusations at will against teachers with little or no come-back. It has got so bad that most teachers have to be union members just to get the legal protection the LEAs fail to provide for their employees against such slanders. This of course enriches the unions no end …
The actual education itself has been so debased that it can barely be called one. The lie about comprehensives is that they give every pupil an equal chance but that is so obviously false only an idiot would believe it. Time and time again they have played the same game; because they know their methods will not aid less able children they hinder the better able instead. All shall be equal – equally ignorant. But even this doesn’t work and the more intelligent kids still do better, just not as well as they should.
So they have to drop the entry requirements for universities because the State School kids can’t compete and when that doesn’t work they insist on quotas. This forces universities into a spiral of decay as they desperately try to get state school kids onto courses they know they can’t cope with. Like many companies, universities are now giving the basic education in subjects schools are supposed to give.
So they have effectively ruined education for the poor and made sure that they stay poor. The middle classes who cannot afford private education have to shell out for extra tuition just to pull their kids heads above water or, in extremis, move house to get their kids away from the cess-pit schools in sink estates that Labour LEAs love to marry small middle class areas to. Even then they struggle to get a sufficient education for their kids.
And all the while the left have maintained a barrage of agitprop to convince the hard of thinking that they are the party of equal opportunities.
The BBC has played along with this at every stage. Not a single programme, dramatic or factual, concerning education approaches the subject from a right wing point of view. Every single one is pro-comprehensive and anti-private/grammar. Every single left wing nonsense about education is given a friendly airing and any criticism from the right is howled down.
Typically, their solution is such a poor one that they won’t send their own kids to a comp. Those few who did like Comrade Benn make damn sure that they go to a ‘show’ school in a Labour LEA – a school which is effectively private as it is only open to certain pupils.
Like I said, they have played a blinder – and as we now know to our cost; In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.