In 2024, Tom Kerridge was 1 of 121 business leaders included in an open letter giving their backing to Labour in the General Election ‘to achieve the UK’s full economic potential.’
In 2026, he’s the face of a ‘VAT's the problem’ campaign.
Buyer’s remorse
@jrkdenison@GuyEmma68700 Tax drives changes in consumption. It’s why they’re taxing vaping - albeit much more gradually to allow illegal vape shops to diversify
@RidgeandFrost This is funny as ****
Taking jobs away from humans by not funding teachers and replacing them with AI
And replacing human job advisors with AI
Wonder why there aren’t jobs
@rwoolfy29@SimonGregson75 Yes, Who’d’ve thought the mind is connected to the body and even state school kids!!!! Have bodies. Not that this gov would recognise that fact.
Hour activity. Hour lunch break enabling 1/2 hour free play. Etc
@PaulfrYorkshire@AdamJ10812@janicesus@anaboultertv If the question is:
“How do we sort wraparound care at schools”
The answer is
“Fund supervision”
Not
“Toast”
Gov haven’t called it wraparound care as they’re not funding that
Toast does not pay for extra teacher hours. Goodwill will run dry like an empty promise
@SimonGregson75@rwoolfy29 It is, but you have to put the time in. State schools don’t value sport. And with the 22% cut from Labour, will value it even less.
Everything becomes more complicated, but it starts with a simple “how much time”
@DanNeidle If we can’t significantly reduce the variance between online and high street relax there’s no point. Might as well turn town centres into residential and entertainment
@SimonGregson75@rwoolfy29 Simon, state schools on the whole don’t do sport. Bare minimum statutory.
Time. Time is the single most relevant aspect. Independent school days are longer and include a lot of sport.
If it takes 10,000 hours to be expert, the time Inde schools spend makes all the difference
@PaulfrYorkshire@janicesus@anaboultertv I agree. Labour picked a flagship policy that was awful for this, and hid the fact they’re not investing in education.
They’re still dining off breakfast clubs whilst cutting teachers by 1,900, cutting sports by 22%, and not funding teachers pay rises.
But toast.
@PaulfrYorkshire@janicesus@anaboultertv Yes, we do. We had overcrowded classrooms.
Labour had an opportunity to improve education
But 1,900 fewer teachers
22% cut in sports funding
Unfunded pay rises
If they improved state Ed in my area to posh London state standards I wouldn’t need to take my kids private
@paullewismoney Yet another envy tax. All labours sneaky taxes are just stupid as they’re assuming a venal population who’ll just accept being taxed unfairly
@SimonGregson75@rwoolfy29 It’s not private schools fault that state schools don’t do sport.
It’s the state’s fault for not doing school sports
Then they gaslight “privilege” to mask their failure
@etaknipsa@oldishbird1 Labour said they were going to get 6,500 more teachers
Bridget says she’s over half way there
Both are lies as there are 1,900 fewer teachers
Labours pledges are as back to front as your name
The number of teachers working in schools in England has fallen by 1,900 year-on-year, figures show – but the government is claiming progress towards its target of recruiting 6,500 new teachers
https://t.co/sn4xw2NHkC
@Liberalscribble It’s all due to Labour lies and prioritising a bad policy.
Water: profit making industry needing state bailouts
Illegal vaping shops: give them a few years
Education that SAVES the state money: must kill it IMMEDIATELY.
@Liberalscribble No, it’s that Labour “othered” independent education and the left can’t handle anything not provided by state.
The left lied about profit in not for profit inde Ed. Lied about SEN, lied about state investment. House of cards of lies.