Alexander Fish | We Should NOT Cap Oxbridge Private School Admissions at 7% (8/8) | Oxford Union

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The Motion: This House Would Cap Oxbridge Private School Admissions at 7%.
Alexander Fish closes the case for the Opposition, as the eighth speaker of eight in the debate.
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  • @ian7379
    @ian7379 Жыл бұрын

    Well argued. The US has the same fallible solution with affirmative action - leave the pubic education system in poor areas starved of funds and good teachers - and then letting unprepared students into elite universities to fail out. We need to focus on the pipeline.

  • @MovieStuff-ug9cq
    @MovieStuff-ug9cq Жыл бұрын

    Good speech

  • @whereof
    @whereof Жыл бұрын

    Argued just like psmith, comrade!

  • @c.c.5910
    @c.c.5910 Жыл бұрын

    We like having idiots in charge of our system because they display confidence, charm, and class. People vote for rich people not because those people have more money blasting their names out in the press but because they sound charming. You can't tell I have a Scottish accent lol. Also capping private school entries will burn the entire house down because reasons.

  • @MarcusAurelius7777
    @MarcusAurelius7777 Жыл бұрын

    One aspect I hated about uni was that so many people were admitted who were clearly sub-par academically according to the "guidelines," yet administration ignored this (taking bribes).

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 Жыл бұрын

    Talking about how superb the education system is where he was taught and how bad it is where where he wasn't taught? Putting on an Oxford accent doesn't make him any less a Scottish snob and it shows. If privately educated people can put on an Oxford accent, so can the rest, and they do.

  • @2894031
    @2894031 Жыл бұрын

    Thus sound modern communists

  • @hmq9052
    @hmq9052 Жыл бұрын

    Children pretending to be adults.

  • @OliverWoodphotography

    @OliverWoodphotography

    Жыл бұрын

    Compared to less able children they are effectively adults. Most people in Britain today remain quite childish well in to their 40s.

  • @najbritcol
    @najbritcol Жыл бұрын

    What a nauseatingly snobbish speech, especially from a self-styled "Communist". Also, he does have a Scottish accent, albeit of a very mild variety.

  • @richardkirk5098
    @richardkirk5098 Жыл бұрын

    How bizarre. To admit to being a communist.

  • @ianmangham4570

    @ianmangham4570

    Жыл бұрын

    Communist my ass .