> It doesn't really matter how good the model is, it's an impossible task politically. There will always be some people aggrieved by the new process and they will always have plausible ways to spin it as racist or classist or whatever else is necessary to fuel the outrage machine. As if the previous setup was some kind of examplar of egalitarianism.

So just because every system has flaws, we should throw in the towel and give up? Taking that line of thinking all the way means we can just replace university allocations with a lottery.

That's not how society works.

Even if every system have flaws, even if the current suffers from racism and classism, we have to strive towards making it better. The system the UK invented here does not even try. It very clearly favors people with nice postcodes.

Maybe we should replace it with a lottery, it would be equal. But I'm pretty sure the people with nice postcodes would like it much, and that's the people propping up the UK gov. Etonians, Oxford, silver spoon etc.

I for one believe there must be _some way_ to fix the situation and is better than what they came up with.