Yes sorry Jess. Thought maybe the sense was "in theory, badly spent", but wasn't sure. Over-sensitive, moi?
I agree that generally primaries probably got more out of the support and certainly many of them valued it more.
You are quite right Anno. I think you can already see evidence of people saying "why doesn't the LEA / council do something about xyz?", when the fact is that the people are no longer there. I think I see much of this agenda as a long struggle for power between central and local government, which central government has won. People talk of freedom from Local Authority control when the reality is that everything now comes from central government.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic