The truth is that many Tories fear and resent the intelligence and abilities of people from humble backgrounds and those who didn’t go to public schools and they know that if Britain was a truly equal country in terms of opportunity and life chances they and their kind would be excluded from any power or influence.

David Cameron and George Osborne’s ascent to power provides ample evidence of the means that idiots with good connections have at their disposal.

For 34 years, the years of the postwar consensus, inequality fell steadily until by 1979 Brtitain was much more equal in terms of rich and pooir than had ever been the case prior to then. Then along came Thatcher, who destroyed millions of jobs, structures for training and opportunities, tax breaks for the rich and wage cuts for the poor and those on middle incomes. Needless to say the wealth gap shot up from 79 till 1997, and it was a direct result of Thatcher and the Tories’ policies. Labout got in in 1997, and their policies led to a disstinct slowdown in the rate of increasing inequality, as any graph will depict. It increased, albeit at a much slower rate than under the Tories, because parts of Labour’s policies were still Thatcherite and neoliberal; it did not increase because of Labour, but because of Thatcherism; Labour did not do enough to address the problems Thatcherism had created.

It is mathematically possible for aptitude to be 100% inherited and overall IQ to be 100% environmental.