The Playing Fields Are Eaten.

During the eighties, Maggie the Great started the process whereby one way for schools to raise extra cash was to sell off their playing fields to developers.

While the Battle of Waterloo was said to be won on 'the playing fields of Eton'(which I think is bullshit from the 'play on play on' brigade), it is an undeniable fact that the Battle Of Britain was won by Grammar School boys.

During the eighties Maggie ruled the National Roost, but this rule was far from uncontested.
From the Soviet Union-funded miners riots, to the battles of local government when the Labour Party actually scared itself into submission, the fight was carried on against the grain.

One of the casualties of this period was the Grammar School, most of which were destroyed never to be seen again.

This was due entirely to the hatred of all things 'classy' by the Labourites, nothing to do with fighting real or perceived oppression, you understand, just the crusade against quality.
This crusade was and is carried out by any and all means, fair, foul and unmentionable, though it has to be said that no fair method ever stood a chance.

Today, the putsch continues by such means as labelling Blair's government 'Thatcher-ite'; this is supposed to be damning, as Maggie is a 'Bad Thing' by acceptance without argument(the weakness of democratic pandering being the abandonment of principles in the face of slander at the first sign of electoral disapproval-although this is also only asserted slanderously).

So today we are in the grip of Reaction, which holds on to its 'radical' credentials by being radically totalitarian, and is really only concerned with doing down the Eighties, the decade where a burst of freedom was released and won the Cold War in ten years flat.

Today, such popular motion is only permissible as an expression designed to install one clique over another, while the clique headed by Blair does its best to appear floppy-fringed with slight confusion to enhance the credibility of its apparent truths, such as 'let us invade Iraq because they pose an immediate threat'.
They dance around the possibilities laid open by the winning of the Cold War while installing themselves as the political exploiters of the power vacuum.

But the fear remains.

When all is said and done, they would have Maggie back in a minute if dark forbodes threatened again.
This is why they are prepared to buy a buffer zone in the East by expanding Nato and the EU.