He is a notorious micro-manager, as anyone who has worked under him will concur - we should be under no illusion that his talk of parent empowerment was spin of the most corrput order

This is a blatant attempt by the Tories to control the purse strings and ultimately the dirction of travel of the wholw education system. Why didn't Labour think of it?
Then we might have done away with inequality of admissions and unfair funding and polarised schools favoured with money, and denominational and faith schools that seek to indoctrinate their flock with subliminal perhaps not overt messages.
We might then have achieved a fairer secular education system and opportunities for all children irrespective of background.

Listen, in the words of Tracey Beaker ' Bog off!'. I know you are tryng to sell us things, but I, for one, have never clicked onto your site, you are interrupting debate that may change your lives someday.