ID cards obsessive Tony Blair’s eldest son, Euan, runs an “Educational Technology” apprenticeship company.
Apprenticeships are a good thing. They help people, and we assume the success of his company means he runs it well – or at least, that has done so successfully for a number of years.
Apprenticeships are one good way to learn new skills, and we would hope that any major UK Government scheme has space for apprenticeships.
Suggestions, however, that Blair Jr’s company will be running the proposed ID cards scheme are based on nothing more than fiction. Highly viral fiction maybe, but fiction nonetheless.
We won’t add to the onslaught of misinformation by linking to it, but if you encounter someone who has fallen for this line, please feel free to point them to this post.
It is possible, indeed likely, that the commercial suppliers of the ID cards scheme will employ some apprentices. If they do, some of those apprenticeships may or may not be facilitated by Blair Jr’s firm – as could be the case for any other firms who support young people into apprenticeships.
(The suppliers of the ID scheme will also buy things like coffee and laptops from other commercial suppliers, but those things are far less fun for clicks on twitter…)
People do all sorts of things to earn a living, to feed themselves and their families; singling someone out on the basis of a coincidental connection is both unfair and unwarranted.
Individuals make their own choices. And everyone deserves their fair chance to learn from the choices of their parents, or their grandparents.