Not all private schools are public schools. Private schools to the age of 13 are usually Preparatory Schools. Jeremy Corbin went to such a prep school - sent there by wealthy parents from their 7 bedroom mansion.
just to confuse you more, a private school is not necessarily a Public school!! a lot of private schools are not in the Public School system. ie, you can attend a private secondary school, having been in the state primary system. That is hardly ever the case with the Public School system. Clear as mud right?
Swords, They are both fee paying schools. Public schools tend to be the older more established and exclusive such as Eton, Harrow etc. Private schools are far more regular and perhaps less elitist. At least that is my understanding.
Here you go Swords, straight from Wiki. Apparently originally they were free schools for the poor.... The term public school refers to a group of older, more expensive and exclusive fee-paying private independent secondary schools in England and Wales, which cater primarily for children aged between 13 and 18. Traditionally, these were boys' boarding schools, although most now allow day pupils and many have turned either partially or fully co-educational. They emerged from charity schoolsestablished to educate poor scholars, the term "public" being used to indicate that access to them was not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation, or home location, and that they were subject to public management or control,[1] in contrast to private schools which were run for the personal profit of the proprietors.[2] Soon after the Clarendon Commission reported in 1864, the Public Schools Act 1868 gave the following seven schools independence from direct jurisdiction or responsibility of the Crown, the established church, or the government: Charterhouse, Eton College, Harrow School, Rugby School, Shrewsbury School, Westminster School, and Winchester College. Henceforth each of these schools was to be managed by a board of governors. Separate preparatory schools (or "prep schools") for younger boys developed from the 1830s, which "prepared" pupils for entry to the senior schools, which began limiting entry to boys of at least 12 or 13 years of age.
The political demographic on this board is not representative of the country at large, thankfully, otherwise Corbyn might as well give up now. I suspect some of the responses from the Tories on here - from the smug to the hysterical - might be based, just a little, on fear of the unknown. What if those on the the left coalesce behind Corbyn? What if the Blairite deserters go to the Liberals and not the Tories? What if a significant number of the ex-Labour voters who voted UKIP are not actually xenophobes, but were just tired of a Labour party that was scared to speak its mind? What if the younger generation are enthused by what to them is a new kind of politics? What if he could actually win? After all the Tories only needed 26% of the electorate to vote for them to gain a majority.
Corbyn probably should give up now! He's unelectable, his policies are so far left that they will never sit with the general public. Putting aside his ideas on the countries finances which alone is probably enough, do you really think that someone who sympathises with the IRA, Hammas etc, wants to chuck N Ireland out the uk, wants to hand over the Falklands(against the inhabitants democratic rights), withdraw us from NATO and create an open door policy to the country to name but a few of his ideas is ever going to get the backing of the general public? Not a chance, I voted Labour the last two elections and I can't stand the Tories but id vote for them any day over Corbyn!!
More important than all that, he didn't sing God Save The Queen today (and of course he's a bit of a scruff).
My A-hole was always in the centre however if were to vote in the UK now I'd be wiping more on the right side.
You wouldn't hire someone to run a company that looked like a sack of ****e so why the country? I personally can't wait until he gets down on his knee and kisses the Queens hand before pledging his allegance to her, I bet she'll be grinning ear to ear!
Lot of 'what if's' in there Strolls. Whether you or I think singing the national anthem is important or not is not the point, it is to very many people, and Corbyn has chosen to make an issue of it. Now he has to live with the consequences, including members of his own party criticising him. Next issue will be wearing a red poppy. He's had 3 months to make his position on everything very clear and has a massive mandate to drive this through. Yet many of his own shadow cabinet can't say 'we' when talking about what policies are clear, they say 'Jeremy thinks....' What is his stance on the EU? Does he want no benefit caps or a higher one? Less than 10% of Labour MPs voted for him, and they are the ones the general electorate voted for. I may be smug, and am definitely shallow, but I don't think I'm a Tory/of the right (though they are not wrong on everything), but this bloke makes my skin creep, he is the living embodiment of the caricature of the loony left that the right wing press has been peddling since the 70s. A rainbow collection of postures on any issue under the sun. The mainstream media will dictate the way the electorate see him and the way he dresses is yet more ammunition for them. Cameron has a tiny majority and his own party discipline will not hold. We need a united, strong and clear opposition to exploit this. Two big tests today - PMQs (Corbyn promising to be 'relentlessly polite') and the welfare debate,
