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Pretty much, yes.Is that coz you made it thru hard work and guile without a handout in your life?
Pretty much, yes.Is that coz you made it thru hard work and guile without a handout in your life?
What Worsley and Brewster don't realise and i didn't until I grew up was if everyone had their mindset they would be fucked both socially and economically.Are you a Victorian mill owner lost in time?
Highest ever taxes and highest ever debt under the party you voted for. While at the same time providing the worst public services in living memory. Your party doesn't get rid of handouts, it just shifts them from the needy to the wealthy. At least with Labour, you usually get something for your taxes rather than seeing them syphoned off into the pockets of billionaires and they literally pump our country full of shit.I see everything that points to big lazy state, low growth and more debt. More entitlement and more laziness.
I'm a mere working class plumber with a detached house in suburbia a beemer and an audi for the wife and the foreign holiday this year along with the private school fees almost made us cut back on the Isa's or Chantelle's uni fund/mini Cooper.
Won't someone please think of the working class.
You don't do irony do youI see everything that points to big lazy state, low growth and more debt. More entitlement and more laziness.
Is that coz you made it thru hard work and guile without a handout in your life?
I agree with this:Absolutely, but that's often because of factors beyond the control of the school. The reality is that private school is self-selecting not just for income, but also for parents who really give a shit about their kids education, and are in a stable situation. And I think kids like that would almost certainly thrive in any school you put them in.
Kids in poor areas aren't going to be whisked off to Eton, or even a minor private school.
People in poor areas simply cannot afford such luxuries. So if you're worried about kids in poor areas, you're looking in the wrong book, so to speak. The only way to help those kids is to improve the state system. (Though a major factor in such areas is a lack of educational capital. Homes without a single book and so on. It's not just the school.)
Indeed, school is only part of education. I went to a chaotic grammar school where if you weren't a scientist the Headmaster had no real interest in you. Half the teachers (at least) were downright useless and would not be allowed in the profession now. To a very large extent, I educated myself. Quite literally. My parents were supportive, but we were not exactly rolling in cash and neither had a brilliant education themselves.
I honestly believe the modern state system is far better than it was in the 1960s, if you take it all round. (Which many people don't.) It is, however, grossly underfunded. And I mean grossly. So if you want to help disadvantaged children, you need more funds in there. What Labour is trying to do is give 50p where £5 is needed, but apparently, that's all we can afford, and many seem to resent even that.
Low growth and more debt is what’s been happening for the last 14 years.I see everything that points to big lazy state, low growth and more debt. More entitlement and more laziness.