Leftist Insanity.

Smash the class ceiling, bosses are told: They should hire poorer applicants over more qualified rivals, say MPs.

MPs have called for a change in how young Britons are hired for jobs, saying that even doctors should be chosen using social factors instead of their level of skill. Mail.

This is a prime example of leftist lunacy in action with what is nauseatingly described as 'equality of outcome'. 

The only fair and just system is one in which the person best fitted for a post, in terms of education, ability and experience, must always be the one chosen.

A major part of the problem here is that 'a sticking plaster solution' is being used to compensate for the abolition of grammar schools half a century ago. Very few remain.

As youngsters from lower class homes, my wife, my closest friends and I were all educated in a system designed to aid what is now referred to as 'social mobility'. We were not judged on where we came from but on what we could do.

Important reports from both Northern Ireland and the LSE have pointed to the fact that comprehensive schools have actually offered fewer opportunities to children from working class homes.

What inevitably happened was that in middle class catchment areas, of course, you tended to find better comprehensive schools. Parents who could afford to move to the leafy suburbs did so meaning that these schools got better and better but not for any educational reasons as such.

Naturally, this made for social inequality of opportunity.

The obvious solution was the restoration of grammar school education. Only in this way could the public schools be properly challenged and the 'old boy network' be undermined.

The desperate and destructive left preferred to look at solutions as extreme as bussing children to 'balance up' the intakes of schools in preference to just having a fundamentally fair system.

Whereas it is certainly true that there were some problems in the old two tier setup, the sledgehammer to crack a nut option was the tool of preference.

'Equality of outcome' is just one more price we must pay to pander to their absurd meddling. 

I was brought up in an era when grammar schools were being abolished wholesale. 

As a boy, this was my first encounter with the egregious folly of the left and helped shape my political opinions from a very early age.

(Ironically, one fact of interest was that Margaret Thatcher closed more grammars than any other person whilst Wedgie Benn closed more coal mines. Funny ole world, innit?)