Labour can never resurrect the old working class. They can, however, make middle-classness an object of desire and aspiration rather than the scapegoat for all socialism's failures; only this will encourage the sort of upward social mobility that Milburn tells us he desires.Comment from The Times: Alan Milburn and social mobility - why he's wrong to criticise universities...with a link to Milburn's report.
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly." On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau.
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Minger Milburn And Social Immobility
Raedwald on Milburn and Labour's desire for social mobility:
More on this later.
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