Since class war is all the rage now for Labour, I've compiled a list of (known) privately-educated Labour MPs. Some will be standing down, but those who aren't you should punish by voting for someone else - even if you support the Labour government, because that government seems to be saying David Cameron et al are unable to think for ordinary people, yet are quite at ease being in a party with a disproportionately high number of old public schoolboys themselves! Labour even have an old Etonian (Mark Fisher). Here's the list:
- Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood)
- Hugh Bayley (City of York)
- Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)
- Bob Blizzard (Waveney)
- Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
- Stephen Byers (North Tyneside)
- Charles Clarke (Norwich South)
- Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
- Jim Cousins (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
- Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
- Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford)
- Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
- Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire)
- Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
- Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
- Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton)
- Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East)
- Peter Hain (Neath)
- Patrick Hall (Bedford and Kempston)
- Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
- Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)
- John Healey (Wentworth)
- Margaret Hodge (Barking)
- Geoff Hoon (Ashfield)
- Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
- Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
- Sally Keeble (Northampton North)
- Ruth Kelly (Bolton West)
- Jim Knight (South Dorset)
- Ivan Lewis (South Bury)
- Martin Linton (Battersea)
- Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
- Denis MacShane (Rotherham)
- Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
- Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley)
- John Mann (Bassetlaw)
- Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West)
- Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
- Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway)
- Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton)
- Chris Mole (Ipswich)
- Julie Morgan (Cardiff North)
- Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West)
- Nick Palmer (Broxtowe)
- Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
- James Purnell (Stalybridge and Hyde)
- Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich)
- Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
- Andrew Slaughter (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush)
- John Spellar (Warley)
- Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
- Howard Stoate (Dartford)
- Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East)
- Mark Todd (South Derbyshire)
- Kitty Ussher (Burnley)
- Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
- Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North)
- Michael Wills (Swindon North)
- Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)
- Shaun Woodward (St Helens South)
Does anybody else notice the high frequency of past and present Cabinet members, as well as government ministers? I hope that isn't an admission that a private education makes one more able to do a job.
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