Mark Carney, new (Canadian) Governor of the Bank of England, was obviously not educated at a British public school, although with teachers as both of his parents you could argue he was effectively tutored at home rather than at a state institution.
Elite institutions subsequently attended include Harvard and Oxford.
So one of the key institutions of the British state is now in the hands of someone from outside the Establishment.
Presumably he will now be co-opted into the establishment? It will be interesting to see how that happens. Mrs Carney is apparently a "progressive" but not sure if Canadian progressives are the same as British ones.
Pro-Occupy (but the Canadian Occupy movement is not the same as the half-hearted Giles Fraseresque farce we saw at St Pauls) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bank-of-canada-head-calls-occupy-protests-entirely-constructive/article2202064/?from=sec431
Note - Having just seen the new appointment discussed on Newsnight, it does make me wonder if we are going to see the closed British Establishment replaced by a closed global establaishment.
Elite institutions subsequently attended include Harvard and Oxford.
So one of the key institutions of the British state is now in the hands of someone from outside the Establishment.
Presumably he will now be co-opted into the establishment? It will be interesting to see how that happens. Mrs Carney is apparently a "progressive" but not sure if Canadian progressives are the same as British ones.
Pro-Occupy (but the Canadian Occupy movement is not the same as the half-hearted Giles Fraseresque farce we saw at St Pauls) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bank-of-canada-head-calls-occupy-protests-entirely-constructive/article2202064/?from=sec431
Note - Having just seen the new appointment discussed on Newsnight, it does make me wonder if we are going to see the closed British Establishment replaced by a closed global establaishment.
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