The Boy David had a Road to Damascus moment on selective education this week, but isn't the Conservatives' conversion to the cause of comprehensive education a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has been taken to the glue factory?
Cameron's Cowboys are claiming selective favours the affluent education stops children from poor backgrounds improving their status. Grammar Schools should be abolished they say.
A double dose of hypocrisy is involved here. Grammar Schools now only exist in hardcore tory boroughs populated mainly by affluent people. The eleven plus examination is the only way kids from poor homes in such areas will ever get a shot at a decent education. Otherwise its the sink school that serves the local council estates.
(don't get me started on the stigmatization of social housing dwellers)
Eleven is much too early for pupils to be saddled with choices that will affect their entire life but isn't it hypocritical to suggest that selection by examination is any more unfair than the current postcode lottery which has seen affluent parents buying houses and keeping them empty simply to have an address that qualifies their children for a well ranked school even though they may actually live up to twenty miles away, or parents joining a church when they have no religious convictions simply to get their offspring into a church school?
Would Mr. Cameron like to tell us how any of this improves the chances of any children whose parents are not property developers or wealthy professionals
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Thought not.

In that case could the Conservative leader keep his stupid OLd Etonian gob shut as he is undermining people's faith in private education.