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  Im afraid that Frank Field is a bit of a disappointment to me. He comes across as an engaging fellow, very intelligent and so on, but he is almost always permanently at odds with the Labour Party and the Labour Movement. He is much more at home with Conservatives like Mr Soames and so on. Guys like him should try running for parliament under an Independant banner without the party machinery and then lets see where he gets. He purposely appears Conservative in an effort to get up peoples noses and indeed he does get up peoples noses so it works.
  
  The more that MP's become mavericks as Howard rightly says he is, the more they become newsworthy but the less effective they become as Party members. TV companies always love someone who will go against the party line with as much outlandishness as possible... hence FF being very familiar to all of us. His engaging personality is wasted and the green green grass of home will welcome him back soon...one hopes!
  
  As for the item on history and school kids I dont know enought about it to comment with any sense, but just to say kids have to take onboard so much more these days that its impossible for them to absorb everything. School used to be about readin ritin and rithmetic once, but not anymore.Now the kids know a smidgen of everything but are experts in nothing.

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