Tory quits post over grammars row
He had to go, of course, nothing else matters in Altrincham and Sale quite as much as the secondary moderns grammar schools. It is the entire reason to live in Altrincham and/or Sale. Five state funded grammar schools, plus two more fee paying for the failures. There are also secondary moderns in Altrincham and Sale. In fact, although I don't know for sure, I would guess there might be more secondary moderns. Or at least, more pupils in seocndary moderns. They're for the kids who fail the 11 plus, written off before they even hit puberty.
I love the dishonesty bit:
he first got involved with the Conservative Party aged 16, when he joined a campaign to save local grammar schools
Hmm, he's 40. Gets out fingers (see, even a grammar-school educated accountant needs fingers to take 39 from 40). Ooh, he was the year above me, him at Alty Grammar me at Loreto Grammar, Altrincham. So, he joined Altrincham and Sale Conservative Association the year before I joined Altrincham and Sale Labour Party... was he that Dork, or was that someone else? So this campaign to save Grammar Schools would taken place when I was fifteen, attending a Grammar School, very politically aware, about to join the Labour Party, when Trafford Council was controlled by a clear Tory majority, when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, and no one told me that someone was trying to get rid of Grammar Schools, in Trafford, in Altrincham? Admittedly, we had some fun canvassing in 1986, pretending to dyed-in-the-wool Tories that that was our only policy. But, you know, for all the years from 86 to a couple of years back when, on-and-off, Labour controlled Trafford Council, there was never any proposals to abolish Grammar Schools. Yes, there was a parent-led petition to gauge opinion, because, you know, quite a lot of parents don't like their children to be condemned as failures at 11 and consigned to non-aspirant schools.
Ah well, I expect I'm the only person outside Altrincham and Sale who has ever heard of Graham Brady; I'm sure one more faceless chinless wonder won't be missed from the Tory front-bench. And having gone to Altrincham Grammar, not Eton, he was never going to get any position of significance, anyway. Still, better than going to Welly Road, though.
