Dear Paul Treanor,
Your message is effective and challenging, but objectionable. Prying into or
assessing politicians' private lives is an American habit which we can well
do without. It breaches the principle of privacy and introduces a moralizing
and emotional element in political analysis which clouds our judgment. The
sexual mores of Presidents or government ministers and the educational
strategies of Prime Ministers as far as their kids are concerned are no
business of yours, as long as the law is not broken. But maybe this is a
just the reaction of a Frenchman.
Yours,
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>Objet : Euan Blair and Anthony Giddens.
>Date : Lun104Jan11200019981116:23
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> Tony Blair's oldest child will be 16 on 19 January 2000.
>
> I note that Anthony Giddens, the ideologist of the Third Way, recently
> emphasised that "The market can sometimes be a means of helping to alleviate
> inequalities rather than only creating them - as welfare to work policies
> recognise." and that the Third Way "Places a stress upon active welfare,
> coupled to labour market reform." Giddens also pointed out that "A
> fundamental feature of the new social contact pioneered in third way politics
> is 'no rights without responsibilities'."
>
> http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrclecture10/socialchange.html
>
> What finer example of faith in active welfare-to-work policies, equality of
> opportunity, the value of labour market participation, and the acceptance of
> responsibility, than to give Euan Blair the same equality of opportunity as
> the children of the poor - by withdrawing him from the elite London
> Oratory school, and placing him on one of the fascinating and opportunity-rich
> welfare-to-work programmes for 16-year olds, pioneered by the
> Blair government.
>
> For instance as...
>
> a trainee press operator on a Modern Apprenticeship programme
> http://www.solotec.co.uk/careers/cs_eng.htm
>
> a Modern Apprentice, Security Alarms
> http://www.south-thames.ac.uk/slpros/pass_ma2.htm
>
> a Modern Apprentice, Timber Trade Yard Operations
> http://www.ttf.co.uk/ttta.html
>
> a Modern Apprentice Vehicle Body Fitting (Replace vehicle body panels, panel
> sections and ancillary fittings!)
> http://www.remit.co.uk/html/body_repair.html
>
> ...or on a NVQ course in the Framework Area 'Tending Animals'
> http://www.dfee.gov.uk/skillsforce/papers/5f_2.htm
>
> ...such as Pet Care and Supply ("Recognises the skill of those managing the
> care of animals in a retail environment")
> http://www.careerworld.net/modarticles/sl276a09.htm
>
> or on a National Traineeship in the clothing industry ( cutting, sewing,
> pressing, and sealing)
> http://www.careerworld.net/modarticles/capitb.htm
>
> or the welfare-to-work MacFavourite, the Modern Apprenticeship Fast Food
> http://www.careerworld.net/modarticles/hospitality.htm
>
> or then again a NVQ Level 1 in Meat & Poultry Butchery Operations
> http://www.shetland-careers.org.uk/opp-2.htm
>
>
> As the UK Department for Education and Employment found in 1998,
> "Modern Apprenticeships are attractive in a number of ways: they are felt to
> enable the acquisition of job-related skills, qualifications and experience,
> as well as enhancing career prospects."
> http://www.dfee.gov.uk/research/report93.html
>
> Who needs a university place, with these advantages available, at 16? Euan
> Blair will no doubt be strongly motivated to take up his place, (and of course
> appropriate sanctions can be applied to those who fail to develop a sense
> of responsibility).
>
> I hope that Anthony Giddens will advise his good friend Tony Blair of the
> value of
> this step.
>
>
> --
> Paul Treanor
>
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