Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Just how often is leftist dogma actually correct?

'Middle-class families have been on the wrong end of deeply damaging Government policies designed to fix a social mobility problem which does not exist, academics warn today.
The study for the Civitas think-tank says Labour squandered billions on social engineering projects which had little or no impact on a child's chances of success in later life.
In part, this is because the claim that the nation is a closed shop to less well-off youngsters when it comes to employment opportunities is a myth, the study says.
Having re-examined official data, comparing children born in 1958 with those born in 1970, it concludes that Britain is actually an open and meritocratic society in which more than half of the population are in a different class to the one in which they were born.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282985/Social-mobility-myth-How-Labour-punished-middle-class-problem-doesnt-exist.html#ixzz0pZhUbeGe

Er ... Yes! Possibly,