Its poor peeple wot is ruining educashon for us ritch ones

One of the tokenistic endeavours of New Labour is the Number 10 Petition. Have a look: anyone can start a petition and feel like they're political activists. They range from insane ('cut all links with the USA') to unpleasant to uninformed ('stop handing out top of range cars as invalidity vehicles') to predictable Daily Mail (i.e. both: 'rename the B3102 HIGHWAY OF HEROES'; microchip all illigal immigrants') and sweetly mad ('make all Media fairer and unbiased' - 9 petitioners, 'stop all child abuse' - obviously the Prime Minister can do this personally)… down the rabbit hole we go.

It's like all of Ewar's Shropshire Star letter-writers have got together. I do like the call to reintroduce the brown bear to the UK. Though why bother with this gentle animal? Import Grizzlies! That'll help with the obesity crisis too. I also love 'Stop Shire Horse Extinction' and 'Sort out the mess in this country'. Who could disagree? 'Ask the Met Office why 100% of all forecasts are wrong' sounds like Mr. Mike Haseler doesn't like snow… I must stop, it's addictive.

Someone who should be writing her PhD spotted this glorious effort:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop under privaledged kids being accepted into private schools.

Full marks for mean-spiritedness - none for literacy or brains. I've never seen a campaign launched against the poor before (unless you count Blair cutting child benefit, and the collected works of the Conservative Party, 1979-1997). I'd like to shut the private schools, but this is very weird. How exactly does this person thing the PM could even do this? Why would these schools want to lose their only fig-leaf of public good? Bonkers…


Here's the full justification:

The government gives people who do not earn enough tax credits, housing benefits, working tax credits and etc. They get free education anyway. So why do people who work hard to get a high income have to pay extra money for their child's education so these people can get into private practically free!!!