Re. that first point it's adjacent to another feature of recent governments, privatise the profit but socialise the risk, leave a small rump of the state to deal with the shit you don't want to deal with. Letting 'the market' deal with everything doesn't include being accountable for and cleaning up it's own mess. Back to schools, I have never found anyone who has been able to give me a sound educational rationale for those reforms, because there isn't one it has nothing to do with educating our children. The matra around 'choice' is utterly laughable.