So where did Blair go to school? Fettes is the Scottish equivalent of Eton! Harriet Harperson went to St Paul's Girls' School hardly a bog standard comprehensive!! I ask you who did their utmost to get rid of grammar schools, I was a working class boy who went to a grammar and I bet you did as well. What I always found so nauseating about Labour is how so many went to grammar schools themselves. Top Labour politicians are less posh than the Tories or the Lib Dems but they are increasingly middle-class, Oxbridge-educated and have done nothing but politics.Labour Leader Ed Miliband graduated in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) from Oxford and was pretty quickly working for Gordon Brown. His brother David also did PPE at Oxford and was soon advising Tony Blair. New shadow chancellor Ed Balls also went to Oxford after private school to do - you guessed it - PPE. It was there that he met his wife, the new shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who also happened to be doing PPE as well.
After WW2, rather than copying the German school system by implementing Hauptschules, Realshules and Gymnasium schools, we invented secondary moderns which were mainly for giving people skills enough to be factory fodder. No wonder that Germany churned out so many engineers after the war!
Do you really think the US elite go to the same schools as the rest of Americans, apparently you never heard of private schools which are every bit as elitist as Eton or Rugby?