I FIND it both incredible and ironic that, after 35 years of a failed comprehensive system, it has taken a Labour Government to finally admit that the experiment must end, hopefully to give children and parents a truly better start to their educational aspirations ('School shake up plan', February 12).
However, it also raised the question of where the Conservative Party now stands in relation to its own policy. New Labour has stolen another political cause which traditionally has been espoused by Conservatives,
The comprehensive system should have been demolished by Margaret Thatcher or John Major, but neither of them had the courage or foresight to carry out the much-needed execution. This now leaves New Labour occupying the centre-right of the political scene with William Hague and the Conservatives floundering.
The only issue left for the Conserv-atives to regain lost support is to reject the Euro and to withdraw from the EU, otherwise the Conservative Party will be lost forever.
David W Wright,
Little Lane,
Easingwold.
Updated: 10:48 Saturday, February 17, 2001
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