That line stuck in my head today when thinking about Cameron, so I knocked this up tonight instead of drinking beer and cooking chilli and playing Baldur’s Gate like I promised myself I would. See how cool I am?

What do you think? Answers on a postcard (or in the comments section below).

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UPDATE: As you can see in the comments below I’ve been asked about my ’sources’ for this poster.

Well, I checked just about everything online before adding it to the poster, so in all honesty it is easy to fact check yourselves sometimes you know! However, it reminded me that I did originally plan on posting sources for all this stuff when I started doing it to counter any suggestions it’s being made up. So here goes:

Tory Council wanting to build new grammar schools – was a famous row from a couple of years ago when a Tory Council wanted to build a new grammar school. It was famous for being damaging to Cameron’s attempt to rebrand the Tory party and also because he backed down from a row with his party on them. The council in question is Buckinghamshire Council, read about it here.

£910 million budget cut from education for 2009 – is based on the fact that Cameron pledged to cut £5 billion worth of public spending this year to deal with debt, regardless of the fact it would plunge us deeper into recession leading to more debt in the long term. I believe that the £910 million cut comes from working out the £5 billion across various departments, I saw the figure on John Denhams site, but annoying now cannot find any sign of it! However, if you search for ‘910′ on this Hansard debate you’ll see it mentioned.

Opposing the right to education until 18 – I’ll be honest I didn’t look this one up online, as it’s well known they opposed and ridiculed it. If anyone has any evidence they support it let me know.

Opposing EMAs – When they were introduced they were mocked by the Tories as a ‘gimmick’ and they said they were pointless, or similar. They now refuse to commit to them in a future Tory government.

Limiting access to university is based on their opposition to 50% of young people going to university. I think I may have had something else in mind too but can’t remember it now. Sorry.

Tory Council to spend thousands on keeping children at private school was in the news headlines a couple of weeks back. As PoliticsPenguin pointed out, it turns out they decided against it – though it makes little difference in understanding the mentality of the Conservatives when it comes to education, so an updated version of the poster is available below.

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