Another embarrassing U-turn by a man and a party with zero principles. At this point it’s probably more intelligent to assume the only policies Labour will enact next year are the ones they *haven’t* promised in the last two years.
There is no downside to ending these schools’ charitable status. They do not need the money, they charge obscene amounts to parents for their time already. This would be practically free money for the government but because a select few right-wing editorials were written about Starmer, he’s backtracked. Absolutely pathetic.
Good.
The wealthy elites wouldn’t have been impacted. The rich wouldn’t have cared either. The only impact would be lower middle class people who’ve socially risen to the point of affording private schooling for their kids, and it would have pushed them back into state schools.
It would have made social mobility even harder, which is the exact opposite of what Labour should be doing.
Just another “don’t upset the Daily Heil” Labour policy to add to the pile.
Make sure you don’t make any changes at all to the status quo, nothing whatsoever, and then you get to wear the big boy pants for a bit.
Genuinely, what’s the point? So you can pause the rot for 4 years and then have it all start all over again?
Labour’s idea of a vision of hope is “we won’t enact legislation that makes it legal to hunt the homeless for sport”.
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Another embarrassing U-turn by a man and a party with zero principles. At this point it’s probably more intelligent to assume the only policies Labour will enact next year are the ones they *haven’t* promised in the last two years.
There is no downside to ending these schools’ charitable status. They do not need the money, they charge obscene amounts to parents for their time already. This would be practically free money for the government but because a select few right-wing editorials were written about Starmer, he’s backtracked. Absolutely pathetic.
Good.
The wealthy elites wouldn’t have been impacted. The rich wouldn’t have cared either. The only impact would be lower middle class people who’ve socially risen to the point of affording private schooling for their kids, and it would have pushed them back into state schools.
It would have made social mobility even harder, which is the exact opposite of what Labour should be doing.
Just another “don’t upset the Daily Heil” Labour policy to add to the pile.
Make sure you don’t make any changes at all to the status quo, nothing whatsoever, and then you get to wear the big boy pants for a bit.
Genuinely, what’s the point? So you can pause the rot for 4 years and then have it all start all over again?
Labour’s idea of a vision of hope is “we won’t enact legislation that makes it legal to hunt the homeless for sport”.