Originally Posted by
-:Undertaker:-
The British education system is crap, I agree - that's why I constantly argue for the return to selective education which was destroyed with the abolition of the grammar schools. So sure, the education system has huge gaping holes in it and there are many problems with it... but it's not helped and indeed, it's compacted with mass immigration - especially when it comes to post-education job prospects. It's refreshing to see that some in Labour are waking up to this and exactly what they have done.
As for your second part, spoken like a true politician. The last government threw buckets of money at schools and education yet they're still absolutely dreadful, so creating shiny new schools clearly isn't what is at fault. What's at fault is the comprehensive system itself, which being left wing I assume you support... but that's an argument for another day.
This is most important and i'd be interested to hear your response to this, I should have said this earlier but here..
You can bend it all you want, but the fact is that even if British kids were better educated or at the same level as Poles it still wouldn't matter for the fact that you don't need to have the best brains to be a plumber or somebody who picks crops in a field. When the employers look for the people to do these jobs, they will pick those who will work for the lowest wage (often under the minimum wage - which you lot support) and who are unlikely to have children as they then avoid all the maternity leave regulations, ie young single Polish men.
You can educate every Briton to the level of an Einstein yet that still won't solve the chronic problem of jobs being taken by migrant workers in the manual labor market.
