To think the Tories must actually want to loose the next election?

They are completely inept/corrupt.

For the life of me I've never understood why people have been so gullible to keep voting for them. They've destroyed the country but some idiots still defend them. Its as if a posh accent and inherited wealth is a get out of jail free card.

Yanbu. The only thing that would make me vote Labour at this point is to get this shower of corrupt incompetents out. Perhaps the Tories just don’t want to deal with the socioeconomic fallout that decades of neoliberalism has caused. Labour are backtracking heavily on all their founding principles already: I’ve seen them as betrayers since Blair’s time and that is what we’ll get again with Starmer. What a choice. It’s easy to ask ‘how has it come to this’ but most of us know exactly how.

https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1698595798445932834?s=20

A former top civil servant accuses Rishi Sunak of failing to fully fund a critical schools rebuilding scheme when he was Chancellor.

Jonathan Slater tells @BBCNickRobinson 300-400 schools a year needed to be rebuilt but there was only funding for 100, which was further cut to 50

Absolutely. Look at the consultant and junior doctors strikes and their stonewalling - they now have a ready made excuse for anything that goes wrong in the NHS.

No such thing as a Tory safe seat any more according to the polls. I live in what used to be the safest one in the country and it’s predicted to turn red when they eventually stop clinging to power and put us out of our misery.

BTW are we officially spelling lose “loose” now - it’s so confusing.

Ha talk is cheap Gove.

The Tories know they have lost this round. They will wait for all of the shit to really hit the fan when Labour start, blame them. Our country predominantly has right wing press so of course they will back the Tories. People are sadly gullible and will vote them back in either 4 or 8 years time. The Tories again will set the system up to benefit the wealthy (themselves) and it will start again. I am not a huge fan of Labour, particularly their stance on womens spaces BUT nothing is as bad as this current lot of Tories. Inequality in this country is just going to go up and up. Our children in particular will suffer.

Even Gove regrets cancelling the build schools for the future plan.
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/gove-i-regret-scrapping-building-schools-for-the-future

The issue with concrete has been known for more than 5 years but I imagine it was isolated instances until the surveys started rolling in, and more faults were found.

I think something happened over the summer that forced them to address the issue immediately. At least they are addressing it, not hoping they can scrape through until a general election.

Our primary school was built in 1870. It's still perfectly sound and functional. It's had a new roof & new windows but otherwise an annual tidy-up of gutters and interior keeps it going.

I wish govts of all colours would stop trying to build schools on the cheap. We've got glass schools that are unbearably hot in summer, cold in winter and leak like sieves. Now we have cheap concrete schools that can't stand up to a bit of damp (in the British climate !).

When will they learn that a decent quality build (and not the latest fad) is far better value in the long run.

I hope so. Dont make us wait too long.

I've usually voted for them, now feeling politically homeless, not sure I'll bother voting, not that it matters as I'm in a very safe seat which isn't changing hands anyway.