Our government has relentlessly betrayed the vulnerable, the poor, the powerless, and the disenfranchised: Refugees, Windrush generation, the Grenfell victims, the kids fed by food banks, and now the A level students. It’s utterly shameful

The whole ethos of conservatism is hard work, drive, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is how social mobility occurs. And yet students who have worked so hard are being thrown under the bus not because of what they couldn’t do, but based on what others couldn’t do

Other young people - who were trapped by poverty, school underfunding, perhaps structural racism - weren’t able to thrive in schools, creating an expected threshold of achievement now imposed upon a whole new generation who might’ve been able to escape that cycle...

To be algorithmically damned because of the performance of your predecessors is predestination; the exact opposite of supposed bootstrap conservatism. This isn’t just a betrayal of a generation, it’s an abandonment of an entire political maxim