Just an update on my previous post regarding Ryeish Green School and my comment on John Redwood's website.

My comment was indeed published and a reply from Mr Redwood was also given as follows:

Reply: The number of children applying halved, and most of those who did apply came from Reading, not Wokingham. For that reason WBC decided on closure. I saw both sides of the argument. There was then a Council election in the local area, where Lib Dems and Labour withdrew their candidate in favour of a Keep open the School candidate. The electorate voted in a close the school Conservative, so there was a democratic judgement on the policy. If the Save the School candidate had won I would have added my voice to those wanting the School to remain open. I supported the majority view, which I think was the right answer. If the community had wanted to keep the school more would have sought places there for their children and more would have voted for it when that was the key election issue.

There is so many things that are wrong with this response that I'm not even going to attempt to put my feelings in to words.