The UK’s educators all lefty trots?

Don’t believe a word of it. It’s all Daily Mail propaganda.

Oh, hang on…… (emphasis mine)

However, Google brought my attention to Nick Starling, an Iraq war veteran who despite no doubt being brave, clearly has the sort political policies most ordinary people would run and hide from.

Right. SO, this guy is some kind of KKK nutter, or something, yes? Erm, no;

NICK FIRMLY BELIEVES IN:
Less government
Lower Taxes
Free markets
The economic principle of incentives versus constraints

Are we really saying that most people want to pay more tax, have even more government, centrally planned markets, and constraint over incentive? Me thinks not….

Now, I don’t agree with Nick’s (the American one, not the petulant school teacher one) assessment of Iraq / Afghanistan, but the rest of it looks spot on. I’d hate to be an individual in Nich’s class*, being told that wanting to be left alone, or pay less taxes was ‘not normal’, especially if that dude was a Liberal Demcocrat. I can feel mt teenage blood boiling.

 

 

 

* actually, precisely because of teachers with opinions like Norfolk Blogger, I despised school. Every single moment of it. If you didn’t follow the centre left consensus, you were a ‘Tory’. When you argued otherwise, and tied your English teacher in metaphoric knots, it suddenly wen’t from sitting cross legged in front of the class saying ‘let’s discuss’, to being red faced and angry and threatening petulant 14 year olds with expulsion for making you look like a Guardian reading, ill informed, tit. Apart from Economics, where I had one of the best teachers in the world. I couldn’t understand why he was a member of the SDP / Liberal alliance. All of the other Fibbers I had met were arrogant Social Democrats with Volvos. Looking back, I know realise he was one of the few proper (i.e. classical) liberals left in the old Liberal Party. It’s a shame he is dead now, as I would like to return and shake his hand. ‘The problem with you, Harry, is that you are a bit of an anarchist. You are also exceedingly lazy’. Although I hadn’t a clue what that meant as a 14 year old ~ guilty as charged!