Sunfish (post 149). Perhaps I should have added good Grammar Schools to the list.
By the way, I went to a Comprehensive School and ended up at Cambridge. 'Right crowd yet no crowding'.,
Surely you must agree with the proposal - in principal I to shrink the bloated welfare state and making citizens, inter alia, more self-reliant?
But it strikes me that your profile names is particulalry apposite! My post certainly caught you 'hook, line and sinker!'