Who are the masters now?

Mines Liam Fox!
Need I say any more?

bad luck, jeni - he's one of Scotland's less appealing exports.

I don't think politicians are the masters. Real power but without responsibility is in the hands of those who run the huge transnational companies.

And the press, absent.

It is the unholy alliance of government, business and the press that disturbs me most.

Hope you've signed my petition, Dresden, about the links between politicians and private healthcare companies. Find out about those with snouts in trough in Parliament. Has 547 signatures now. Needs over 100,000, so a few to go.

I have just come across another epetition to sign.
Private providers of public services to be subject to Freedom of Information Act.
That definitely needs to happen. At the moment it is only by other people like the Green Benches author and Keep Our NHS Public that we can find out about what happens to the NHS.
It's wrong that Virgincare can own as much of the NHS as it does and we cannot find out about it through our local NHS because they are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

I know the Beeb doesn't always get it right (!!) but I sometimes get the feeling that other powerful factions (??) are actually of to discredit it or lessens its power and influence. I can think of two instances in recent years beside the present brouhaha when this thought has occurred to me.

Should read 'out to discredit'

Dresden , State education in Britain has been crassly underfunded since Thatcher.

The right wing Tory's do not not want an educated working class.

The Tory's want the class divide.

Yep! Spot on, Ivanhoe.

While not disagreeing with the general thrust of the comments, I am puzzled by the statistics you quoted,*Greatnan*, particularly 20 Old Etonian cabinet members in 2010

According to The Guardian the 2010 Coalition Cabinet comprised 23 members, of whom 4 were women, and could not have gone to Eton. Eighteen of the men did not go to Eton, leaving David Cameron. Of the six other ministers who attended cabinet or were invited as necessary, two went to Eton.

Is this the Boris effect, which makes it seem that everyone went to Eton?

Interestingly, six of the 2010 team went to Magdalen College, Oxford, but that is another story, and one of them was Chris Huhne.....

I did not go to Eton!