How did Diane Abbott justify sending her son to a private secondary school?

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After all of her rants about parents who pay for private education?

iirc she said something along the lines of "I'm not going to attempt to defend the indefensible"

Diane Abbot is also the MP who attacked Finnish nurses in a hospital for being blue eyed and white.
She's a head case, and shows very well why female only shortlists do the Labour party so much harm.
She's not being hypocritical. She's stupid and has no ability to be objective.
"Her politics" aren't those of conviction, they are no different from a jobsworth security guard. She's been told two sets of rules,and so randomly picks which ones to obey.
It's not that she's a bad person, there just ain't the mental horsepower to work out that either her ethics towards her kid are wrong, or her politics. Her view of logic is as a white man's tool of oppression, not a mode of thought.

She said it was better for her son.

A grammar could be better for my daughter, but unfortunately the Labour party took that "choice" away from people in our city.

Fiona Millar is worse than Diane Abbott. At least DA admits that what she did was ?indefensible?. FM pretends to use the comprehensive system but you know that it is not a level playing field when

1. she is a Governor at the school
2. the kids have ?so much tuition that they are virtually privately educated? (a quote from a friend in the know)
3. both parents have very close contact with Downing Street, especially the Press Office.

Does anyone else want to add to the list of Labour education-hypocrites? Ruth Kelly and Tony Benn spring to mind ?

I always wondered whether Millar was another "do as I say, not as i do" Labourite hypocrite. Pleased to have my prejudice confirmed!

Yes - its a shame in a way that Gordy will be booted out long before we have a chance to see him wriggling when he has to choose schools for his DC - that might have been mildly entertaining.

oh God i cannot stand Fiona Millar.

School governor? Lynch her

it was that old adage

'don't do as I do, do as I say'

DominiConnor for once I agree with every blardy word!

Harriet Harman was another one

what makes me laugh is: did Dianne Abbot really think that ' entrenched stereotypes and peer pressure' would somehow not exist in private schools?

anyway, all that aside I will definitely send both mine private if they don't get into a good state and if I can scrape the money together - which is doubtful!

I am fairly sure Tony Benns children went to state school. Someone tell me otherwise if I am wrong!

According to Wikipedia Hilary and Melissa Benn both went to Holland Park School, a state comprehensive.

'IIRC at the time she actually said that she recognised that she was being hypocritical but at the end of the day she had to do what she felt was right for her son rather than her politics - which, lets face it, most of us would do. Lots of respect to Alistair Campbell and his partner for sticking to their guns though at comprehensive education - not sure I will be able to follow my principles through on that one when it comes to secondary education.'

Well what is the fecking point of having these principles if it's only good enough for everyone else but not yourself or your children. IT makes me pmsl - so hypocritcal. LIke that poster the other week who was opposed to selective secondary education but whose daughter was one of only a few in her class that sat the 11+, passed it and is going to grammar school.

Please.

a friend of mine is a head of year at holland park. It is rough rough ROUGH!!!!

rock on tony.

who was that gobbledigook???

I can't remember, something beginning with s - nota regular poster I don't think. Will see if I can find it.

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I agree with dominioconnor

I can't find it - I don't think it was posted under 'education'

never mind it was only because I felt like doing some stirring!!! thanks anyway.

here it is

thanks, that is interesting.

The problem with people like Abbott and Harman is that they get the wrong side of the equation.

They think they need to apologise for not upholding their principles when it comes to their children.

No. That's not it.

Nobody wants their own child to be part of a social experiment. Speaking personally, I don't object to them wanting the best for their own children.

What I object to is their speaking out against other people having that choice. I object to the "principle" in the first place. It's hugely naive of them not to have realised that it would be challenged when faced with their own children's education, so why go down that road at all??