Emeritus Prof Christopher May @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
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Christopher Tanner (Guardian letters) is right:

we don't need a social mobility plan what we need is an equality plan... we don't need to play the game of class difference better, we need to reduce (and reduce the influence of) class difference(s) in the first place.

A plan for equality is what we need (what one might have expected from a so-called left Govt, but yes I know they're Labour in Name Only)... however, this is something our political class will never deliver!

I disagree with the very idea of having a social mobility plan. The term itself captures the essence of what is wrong – class and inequality, and the notion that being upwardly mobile is the path to success. We are still a deeply class-divided society, underpinned by vast differences in economic and educational opportunity that recreate the social markers and attitudinal differences towards achievement and aspiration that constantly divide us. We need an equality plan, not a social mobility one. As in 1997, a Labour government with a huge majority is failing to come up with a narrative that goes beyond ideas that merely tinker around the edges of the real challenge. Christopher Tanner St Ives, Cambridgeshire
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