During debate on the Education Bill on 8 February 2011, Mr Blunkett described the government's plans as a mixture of "incrementalism, contradiction, historic misinterpretation and downright old-fashioned Conservatism".
Maybe we need to learn to adopt a dose of old-fashioned conservatism, which means conserving what is good and what must last, and accepting and dealing with stern realities rather than denying and running from them.
