Some interesting turns of phrase then. I think the Labour Party did abolish grammar schools when the Labour Party was a Labour Party. I’m not sure what it is now. In terms of the debate, grammar schools are clearly a bad idea. They’re divisive; you write people off at the age of 11. The evidence is there that the system didn’t work, but that’s not to say that what we have today is working. I think it was the First Minister who said in the last term that the Government had taken its eye off the ball. I would agree with that because I think the education that many of our children get now just isn’t good enough. The buildings are not in good enough condition, there are too many cuts, there are too many redundancies, out-of-classroom activities are limited—and I speak as a teacher with 23 years’ experience. The biggest problem in education is the market, which was introduced by the Conservatives and continued by the Labour Party. If you look at the market of qualifications, they simply don’t work. What we need are some gold standards that everybody can aspire to, because, at the minute, there’s a plethora of qualifications and some private companies making a shedful of money on that.

I look at the target-driven culture—[Interruption.] I’m not giving way. The target-driven culture is a bad thing. It’s a deprofessionalisation of teaching, and I think that’s common across the board.

Just some ideas, really. If you look at Estyn, I think the value is questionable. I think we’d be far better off having very experienced teachers on sabbaticals inspecting, but more in a mentoring sense, rather than trying to catch people out. I think the whole—