Keir Starmer has no coherent strategy to tackle entrenched inequalities harming the life chances of millions of people, the government’s social mobility commissioner has said.
Didn't really need the last 12 words, there, did they?
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC), a government advisory body, said big cities such as Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol were starting to thrive but that opportunities were “overconcentrated”. In a Guardian interview, the commission’s chair, Alun Francis, urged Starmer to outline a bold vision to tackle “the defining social mobility challenge of our generation”.
Starmer has never been 'bold' in hie entire wretched life, and I suspect has never had any sort of vision eitther.
Francis praised government policies on devolution and housing, but said welfare reform and other proposals had been “stop-start”. “We’ve got other policies like growth, educational improvement where we’re just not sure where we’re going,” he said.
Down the Tubes, with this wretched mob in charge.
He also warned that without a “universal view” of what social mobility means, it risked being subsumed by diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) policies – an agenda that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has characterised as “woke” and promised to dismantle. “To some degree it’s dropped into being a part of DEI because it does have some of those aspects,” he said. “But [social mobility] isn’t really a DEI policy. It’s more about an economic and social policy that’s about bringing the benefits to everybody.”
The #progressives will never give up DEI.
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I know, let's start running grammar schools again - a proven way of promoting social mobility. Or perhaps some other way of promoting educational merit?
Or maybe, just maybe, the Powers That Be are quite happy to pull the social mobility ladder up to safeguard their own privilege? With the Social Mobility Commission merely a distraction?
The social mobility commission seems like a place where we could save some money
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