Actually it was the tories that enforced national curriculum. They also wanted to enforce national timetable. Of course new labour objected at the time as they were trying to gain support from teachers, but as soon as they got in. More of the same and worse.Labour voters were sold down the river big time by the people who they were supposed to represent fairly. Education is the whipping boy of politicians. It is educations fault.

I suppose it really is when you think about it?..someone must have taught politicians to lie, cheat, bully and fiddle their expenses ! Someone must have taught the police to blindly serve the law and not defend the population.Someone must have taught the civil servents to be greedy, self centred, secretive and dispassionate, full of nasty ideas. So I guess it is the failure of teachers who could have taught them to be considerate, kind and caring with a genuine concern for their fellow human kind. Hang on a minute... most of these top notch people went to private schools not state ones.........