[Politics] Loony labour vote to abolish private education

[driller]

What’s next
Abolish private health care because some can afford it and force everyone into the bursting nhs?

 

[Hampster Gull]

Sensible policy that would benefit the country as a whole.

Maybe. But people may just send their kids to be privately educated in a United Ireland and an Independent Scotland whilst England implodes post Brexit

 

[lawros left foot]

The cost for schools in the public sector would go through the roof at the moment the people who send children to private school pay taxes which pay towards these schools and fees for private schools so they are paying twice.
However the private school should do more bursary for children who can’t afford it and work with schools in the public sector.

Like any business, public schools should pay fair taxes, and their customers should pay the going rate of VAT.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Corbyn is sly and dangerous not to be trusted, in short, he is a nutter.

And Johnson is.......

 

[astralavi]

ha e minor sympathies for the policy, but with the land lord policy Labour would no longer get my vote, originally support ed Corbyn, they are a mess

 

[Hampster Gull]

What’s next
Abolish private health care because some can afford it and force everyone into the bursting nhs?

Some think it reasonable that Corbyn and Momentum decide how people spend their money. What's left of itbanyway

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And Johnson is.......

I know the answer to this. A complete ****. What do I win?

 

[Surrey Phil]

Would these threads not be better with a simple party politics poll, as all this constant party bashing is getting boring? Thank god we’ve got 2 games this week!

 

[GT49er]

Well, it certainly won't be a vote winner sweeping them to power in the next GE. Labour myself, but highly unlikely to vote for 'em myself at the moment (like, I suspect, many life-long Labour voters).
Anyway, the best way to improve the education system isn't by destroying all the most successful bits! Ideology and education are bad bed-fellows anyway - it took years to sort out the mess of the wholesale dash to comprehensive, but at least the best 'comprehensives' are now using selection in their admissions procedures like the grammar schools of old (fortunately, my kids were fortunate enough to be brought up in a city that still has four state grammar schools!).

 

[lawros left foot]

Would these threads not be better with a simple party politics poll, as all this constant party bashing is getting boring? Thank god we’ve got 2 games this week!

I avoid the running thread, the cycling thread, and the NFL thread, I have no interest in them, why don’t you do the same with the politics threads?

 

[lawros left foot]

Well, it certainly won't be a vote winner sweeping them to power in the next GE. Labour myself, but highly unlikely to vote for 'em myself at the moment (like, I suspect, many life-long Labour voters).
Anyway, the best way to improve the education system isn't by destroying all the most successful bits! Ideology and education are bad fellows anyway - it took years to sort out the mess of the wholesale dash to comprehensive, but at least the best 'comprehensives' are now using selection in their admissions procedures like the grammar schools of old (fortunately, my kids were fortunate enough to be brought up in a city that still has four state grammar schools!).

Which part of traditional Labour policies have you ever agreed with.

 

[GT49er]

Which part of traditional Labour policies have you ever agreed with.

Plenty.

 

[Surrey Phil]

I avoid the running thread, the cycling thread, and the NFL thread, I have no interest in them, why don’t you do the same with the politics threads?

Because there’s been so bloody many of them!

 

[cloud]

Sensible policy. Education should be based on academic ability not on the size of a parents wallet..

For education to be based on academic ability, then surely that means a return to the likes of grammar schools and technical colleges, since not everyone is academic.

 

[Bold Seagull]

What’s next
Abolish private health care because some can afford it and force everyone into the bursting nhs?

Correct me if I’m wrong, the policy is not to abolish private education, but to abolish state funding and taxation breaks that private education institutions enjoy. About time too.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I've never had the funds for Private school. I certainly have limited love for the entitled range rovers that drive at me going to the school at the end of my road. This though, is the politics of envy.

Raise the standards of state schools so kids have a better education and sporting background. Not penalise those that are lucky enough to afford it and are taking a burden off the state in doing so.

This.

And end the tax breaks for private schools. It is a business like any other.

Momentum Labour, though - such nobbers.

Boris will walk all over this lot in a GE (and I hate Boris the Liar, and his new Tory party).

Pick your battles. Right now it is Brexit. Listening to Len McLuskie on R5 this evening, he's not interested in Brexit, only the deliverance of a Corbyn government.

Let's remind ourselves of Deliverance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFKdAhi_yc0

 

[clapham_gull]

Removing their charitable status definitely a vote winner, taking their assets definitely not.

The Eton / Private School / Tory thing, I come to conclusion that's not really about "privilege". You can look at the Labour Party too and offer similar criticism regarding their career/education history.

You can work your way up the ranks in either party if you are ideologically inclined. Going to Eton probably makes you that way, but I'm not sure you are barred from entry if you went to state school and have a poster of Thatcher on your bedroom wall.

The reality is that the most frothing at the mouth string them up frighteningly oddball Tory MPs are from relatively "normal" backgrounds.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

education to be based on academic ability,

If it was, [MENTION=14132]Two Professors[/MENTION] would never ever have got through the front door.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I know the answer to this. A complete ****. What do I win?

A Thomas Cook holiday for 2.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

If the commies get into power, we are in deep doodoos.

I think you mean 'incompetanties'.

Sadly it is people like you that make me think 'hang, on, maybe labour are the answer'