Hedge fund manager donates to Lib Dem schools minister hoping for further privatisation of schools

This isn’t the first or the only time private enterprises looking to run schools have made handsome donations to the Coalition parties in order to get a foot in the door teaching – or indoctrinating – Britain’s schoolchildren.

And it hasn’t just been hedge fund managers. One of the donors has been a certain Mr R. Murdoch, formerly Australian, now resident across the Atlantic in America. The Dirty Digger also fancies himself running some of Britain’s schools in a privatised educational system.

In which case, God help us all. Murdoch has built his journalistic success appealing to the lowest common denominator. The standards on the Sun are barely literate, and even the intellectual level of the venerable Times went down after he bought that. Plus the fact that his editors have displayed all the moral integrity of Walter Matthau’s character in the Jack Lemon/ Walter Matthau movie, The Front Page. Letting Murdoch educate our children really would be letting the blind lead the blind.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today!)

A leading hedge fund manager has donated substantial amounts of money to the general election campaign of Lib Dem schools minister David Laws.

But why would a Hedge Fund manager be giving money to a former Lib Dem Schools Minister?

Could it be because the main hedge fund manager in question – Paul Marshall – is on the board of a leading private chain of schools which is in line to take over even more lucrative state school contracts if Laws wins re-election?

The fact is that UK schools – just like our hospitals – have now become an extremely profitable and lucrative business to City fat cats.

And be sure there will be more of this – much much more of this – if we have another 5 years of Lib Dem and Tory ministers selling off our hospitals and schools.

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