| Topic: | Re:'Abolishing Eton' and the impact on Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Phil Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 23/09/19 09:35:00 |
| Labour's silly proposals will fall foul of the European Convention on Human Rights. Specifically the ECHR protects the peaceful enjoyment of private property. The state cannot simply steal it. If Labour tried this the private schools' assets would be tied up for decades in a huge legal fight that Labour would be hard pressed to win without resiling from the ECHR. The assets would not be available for teaching anyone. The ECHR also protects parents' rights to educate their children according to their religious or philosophical views. ECHR case law specifically allows private schools to be created. Ad well as dumping 600K children on the streets with a £3.5 billion price tag it is not clear that the private system's teachers would automatically want to teach in the state system. Very quickly a huge private tutoring business would grow up. Meanwhile I look forward to - Labour MP Rupa Huq (late of NHEHS), - Labour council leader Julian Bell (whose daughters educated at NHEHS) and - Labour GLA member Onkar Sahota (the allegedly modest GP who put three children through elite private schools) explaining why these changes are fair and sensible. Silly Socialists will not destroy the ambition of parents for their children by the stroke of a pen. |