Labour are getting worried

You can always tell when traditional politicians are getting worried - they stop talking about their own plans and start attacking the opposition. And Labour are very worried in Highbury West. Their leaflet contains no less than five articles attacking their opponents and only two talking about their own policies. As is usual with this kind of negative politics, the attacks have little grounding in reality.

It is interesting that Labour have chosen to attack us on education. Perhaps they fear that our plans to increase education spending, scrap tution fees, improve pupil teacher ratios and concentrate classroom time on learning rather than testing will be more popular than their own ideas. This is after all the party that privatised Islington's Local Education Authority and school meals, and the party which allows private companies to run state schools teaching creationism rather than science.

The Green Party on the other hand would end the involement of private companies in the running of our schools - education should be for learning, not for profit. And Greens would reduce the amount of testing and league tables, putting the money into improving education for all pupils, not just those attending selective or private schools.