@Peston Change is happening! This as important as when Jacob Rees-Mogg changed the escape distances in the Dartford Tunnel from (woke) metres to yards.
@OllyMetcalfe This is government policy in a manifesto that was democratically elected by a landslide. Children are transferring into the state sector because the private school chose to refuse to reduce their costs and pass it on to their customers rather than simply absorb it.
@ILA_NewsX@MarioNawfal 2017 from the article you’ve posted was during the middle of the 14 year tenure of the right wing conservative government. The (not very) left wing Labour government have only been in government for the last 6 months. Think you need to bark loudly at the righties not the lefties.
@OllyMetcalfe I believe first class air travel is a luxury and provides better outcomes for passengers (who can afford it). The logical move is to expand first class (through govt support?! 😂) thus relieving pressure on those who can only afford economy and allowing for a better service. 🙄
@CreEnglish @kingston2707 @BellaWallerstei 😂 😂😂
100% earning £20,000 don’t send their kids to private school.
100% earning £20,000 do send their kids to state school.
100% of parents who earn either £120k or £200k have a 100% choice where to send their kids to school.
100% of parents who earn £20k have 0% choice…
@TiceRichard VAT on private school fees should be absorbed by the fees ie. reduce the currently subsidised arms race to provide “world class facilities”. State schools have been absorbing cuts for decades. If private schools / businesses can’t manage this they should close and be state run.
@RupertLowe10 Do your bold plans @RupertLowe10 to slash back state interference in key sectors include defence and the economy aswell as education, healthcare, housing etc?
@chriskeebs @DystopianFemale @therealGDJ@KingBobIIV@EssexPR Nope. I think you don’t understand the difference in percentages of a countries’ population vs those who are eligible or actually bother to vote? The OP has clearly used the former rather than the latter for his UK election analysis. Typical RW trope.
@Con_Tomlinson How can any local authority have any influence over who buys or lets a retail property in their borough. If the use class (A) doesn’t change then it’s a given whether it’s an independent coffee shop, Starbucks or a Vape shop. It’s a free market economy or are you a communist?
@mattletiss7 Says the white male former footballer. Great to bring the gates crashing down now, but how would your football career have panned out 20-30 years ago if you hadn’t been both white and male? Think you might have struggled…