Comments on: You Can’t Fight Segregation and Support Faith Schools Mr. Cameron

By: blabangida

blabangida — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:50:41 +0000

Very good points well made.

By: Peter Stanley

Peter Stanley — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:06:52 +0000

Yes I do know he supports faith schools & is a Christian himself. As a Conservative voting Atheist myself I struggle to reconcile this sometimes – but many of our successful politicians (as with our sporting stars) seem to think they have God on their side don’t they?

Keep fighting the good fight Sir! Hope my spelling was up to scratch?

By: Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:54:06 +0000

Hi Peter, I see where you’re coming from. I was actually referencing the July speech which was mentioned above my comment about Faith schools (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-extremism-speech-read-the-transcript-in-full-10401948.html). Sorry that wasn’t clearer. Thanks for the kind words!

By: Peter Stanley

Peter Stanley — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:28:35 +0000

Hi Stephen – no I didn’t say you did but neither did Cameron in his speech. He merely stated his support for all Free Schools & the policy of opening more in the next 5 years. I could be corrected of course but I don’t think he specified faith schools in that part of his speech – although I take your point about faith schools being part of the problem. There are also local authority run faith schools too – both overt & covert. We are supposed to be a secular society but on the flipside they tend to produce good academic results.

You were one of my earliest Twitter follows – big admiration for your work by the way.

By: Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:05:06 +0000

Hi Peter. I don’t believe I did this.

Thanks for your comments

By: Peter Stanley

Peter Stanley — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:54:54 +0000

Do not confuse all Free Schools with Faith Schools – many do, including our Government who introduced them. There are many flourishing non-faith Free Schools in the country.

I did like his denouncement of ‘passive tolerance’ in the UK – about time somebody said it.