DisappointedIdealist

Disappointed idealist.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

I genuinely don’t understand how a normal person could look at this scandal and not get angry. Private companies are profiting massively from our most vulnerable children, by hugely overcharging our communities. It’s the most disgustingly exploitative of all privatisations.

[Financial Times @FT]

Providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year, a huge rise from a decade ago. That is multiple times the cost of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools such as Eton College and of its young offenders institutions. https://t.co/jkHA8lXB9t

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

To understand this country, it helps to realise that the great majority of our journalists are just desperate to make life harder for pensioners, the disabled and the poor, while also extremely supportive of giving *more* money to an already bloated military.

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

Very notable that Andy Burnham’s defence of the triple lock is that scrapping it would be unpopular, rather than the policy itself making any sense.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

@PoliticsJOE_UK This guy paid private investigators to try and find dirt on journalists who were investigating an illegal act his organisation had committed. When they couldn't find any such dirt, he made up bullshit and tried to smear the journalists anyway. And he thinks he's the victim. Scum.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

Why does X keep:

(A) switching me, unwanted, to the “for you” tab; and

(B) filling that tab with an endless supply of frothing racists, Nazis, genocide fans and cat videos?

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

@beatrismouse @jessicaelgot @kiranstacey Exactly. If one thinks that the issues we have with water and power can be resolved with a bit of tinkering with existing regulation regimes, then Burnham’s your man!

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

@CatHobbs @We_OwnIt Cat, if you think Burnham is going to do anything significantly different to the status quo, I fear you should prepare for disappointment. In policy terms, the man is an empty vessel.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

@flying_rodent I feel like sitting Lewis down: "Lewis, what if - bear with me here - what if the "centre-right" aren't actually "centre-right" in any real way? What if they're actually hardcore Thatcherite neoliberals? What if you and your colleagues have moved the "centre" to the hard right?"

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sentenced as terrorists despite never being charged with, or convicted of, a terrorism offence.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[Aydin Dikerdem @AydinDikerdem]

Today’s decision against the Filton 4 is a devastating blow to our civil liberties & a sign of escalating state sanctioned repression of protest. A judge has been allowed to overrule a jury & make an ex post facto charge. A terrifying distortion of justice
https://t.co/9JkXHnJbjX

[Rangzen @revoltinghippie]

Judge Johnson who sentenced the Filton 4 to prison today is the same Judge who reduced Tommy Robinson's sentence for contempt of court

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Starmer even lied about McSweeney departing—apparently he never really did!

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

@GingaGill Still is, tbh. So many in our political class make entire careers out of being wrong. Appointments to quangos, seats on TV sofas and media stints as “experts”. All off the back of policy vandalism, ideological blindness & just being endlessly, demonstrably wrong about everything!

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

Former Gove advisor says “It turns out that our policies, which we wrecked the education system in order to impose, were all rubbish and ineffectual.”

No shit, Sherlock. Just 16 years after most teachers told you they were rubbish and ineffectual. Slow handclaps all round.

[Joe Hanley ⏹️ @JoeEHanley]

"I worked for Teach First, whose mission is to get great teachers where they’re most needed. I’ve been a trustee of numerous education charities all targeting the same goal. None of it worked"- Blog by former Executive Director of Teach First @Samfr
https://t.co/x14v35XWp6

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property."

Please RT until this is both the 1st & last time.

Thank you.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

Truly, in this country, being leftwing is simply pointing out what’s obviously correct years before the “centrists” and right wingers can see it, and then being despised for being correct.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

I, a simple classroom teacher during the period when Freedman was helping Gove vandalise and privatise the school system, wrote endless blogs *at the time* pointing out the harm of these damaging ideologically-driven policies. But no, Sam &co, who’d never taught, knew better.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

@castleoatcake @ExiledBriton I heard it’s because he supports Palestine action!

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

Excellent example of establishment groupthink. Maintaining PIP, removing the 2 child cap, increasing schools budget, nationalising water: these things are all too expensive and where will the money come from.

Bombs and guns though? Just “find a few billion”. No big deal.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

The thing that is so bewildering is that in Munich in February Keir Starmer gave one of his best speech as PM where he appeared to define his premiership on rebuilding UK defence credibility and taking a leadership role in Europe. Time and time again Starmer has said security is the point of his premiership. Insecurity is his main argument against changing leader.

Rather than find a few extra billion to meet that rhetoric he has taken a political decision not to, siding not only with the Treasury but also inexplicably with the Labour welfare rebels who sunk his premiership. It means he is left with Ed Miliband in his cabinet, who has agitated for his downfall, and no John Healey. How has he managed that?