It seems to me that after 11 years of Labour, British education is in even worse repair than one could ever have imagined. It all comes down to the fact that Labour cannot stop itself interfering in pursuance of it’s own radical egalitarian agenda, and the victims are always the children. Today it is announced that the government’s decision to drop primary school literacy and numeracy strategies has been welcomed by teachers’ leaders as long over due.

Not so fast. The teacher unions are also the enemies of good education. Government has now abandoned even the pretence of qualitative standards in our primary schools and leaves children at the tender mercies of radicalised teachers. It’s all very well for government to remove these ludicrous centralised stalinist practises but there is still a requirement for schools to focus on providing the essentials of a decent primary education and that their success in this be measured. It’s the latter aspect the teacher unions object to – they want all the praise and little of the responsibility. More and more, the essentials of academic based education are being removed from what is on offer in our schools. We are on our way to being de-educated.