Jeremy Corbyn and DD

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I am so worried about what will happen if Labour get in and implement their stated policy on closing down independent schools. It is literally keeping me awake at night worrying about what might happen to DD.

DD is in her 30s, just split from her OH and works as a teacher and housemistress at an independent school. If it is taken over by the state, she stands to lose her home (she lives in the boarding house) and possibly her job. Her school has tiny classes and a state school would need far fewer teachers for the bigger class sizes.

Of course she could come and live in our spare room if necessary, but hardly desirable for someone who has lived away from home for years.

Please tell me I am silly to be so worried!

Everythingnotsavedwillbelost i agree the OP is way OTT, but worrying about one thing that might affect you doesn't preclude worrying about anything else. Private schools aren't responsible for the deaths of poor children.

It's very odd that people can't imagine how losing your livelihood might be a concern.

If you don’t want a Labour government, don’t vote Labour. That’s about all you can do really. It’s possible that any elected party’s education strategy will disadvantage someone somewhere, and I suggest that the state sector is still more vulnerable than the private, whoever gets in. However if your daughter is really worried about the long term security of her job, she could pick up the reins herself and explore other career options.

It's very odd that people can't imagine how losing your livelihood might be a concern.

But this thread, if true, is about a mother worrying about her adult daughter losing her livelihood, under a wildly unlikely scenario.

But this thread, if true, is about a mother worrying about her adult daughter losing her livelihood, under a wildly unlikely scenario.

Exactly. And the OP is envisaging that once this daughter has once lost her teaching job, that instead of a solution of...oh you know, getting another teaching job maybe, she someone has to instead move back home to live with her mum?!

I think there are huge anxiety issues at play here.

It's extreme because it's made up. It's a very common tactic to provoke political arguments on here. Some people actually seem to think they can scare people off voting for parties they don't like by creating fantastical scare stories about what might happen if they win power.

How would shutting down private schools help the state sector improve? All the private kids would have to go state. But state schools would have the same funding as now as private school parents pay for both state and private schools via taxes and school fees.

And how would it be implemented? Kids in private schools education would be disrupted and they would suddenly essentially be in a different school.

It's an absolutely ridiculous proposal just like the 4 day week. Blatantly trying to attract the populist vote but with zero chance of being implemented.

JC seems determined to not be elected which is bizarre.

OP I don't think you need to worry. Labour will never get into power at this rate. Polls show that JC is the most unpopular party leader EVER.

I've never voted tory but equally at the moment I could never vote labour. Luckily I'm in a safe lib dem area so i don't have to think too much about who to vote for as I'd vote LD anyway.

And another caricature joins the thread- welcome @LeLavande!

This has to be a joke thread? Many many people have lost homes, jobs, family members and lives because of this shitty government’s constant cuts and faux-sterity measures. Try considering compassion and also consider that your daughter is bright enough to have a contingency plan should her job become at risk.
Seriously, get a grip.

our actual unelected PM

You mean like the unelected Gordon Brown?

You mean like the unelected Gordon Brown

He isn’t the PM anymore

prime ministers aren’t elected into that specific position anyway.

Corbyn won't get in - and there is no way they will ever be able to abolish public/private schools. Eton and Harrow have been going much longer than Jeremy Corbyn, Esq.! Don't worry.

Corbyn won't get in

If that’s the case, then why the negative stream of noise against him?

Someone is worried.

I do know that Iggly so there's no need for the sarcasm. I also know that the PM isn't technically elected although I'm sure a lot of people don't realise.

However, as people are calling Boris an unelected PM I think it's only fair to point out that Labour also have history of doing this.

Hopefully the policies that Labour are talking about are so ridiculous that there's no chance of Corbyn and his incompetent, terrorist supporting cronies getting anywhere near Downing Street.

Hopefully the policies that Labour are talking about are so ridiculous that there's no chance of Corbyn and his incompetent, terrorist supporting cronies getting anywhere near Downing Street

This Tory government continues to sell weapons to the likes of Saudi Arabia - who have links to the 9/11 attackers, they’re highly incompetent (look how fucked we are after 10 years with increased government debt despite austerity) - not sure why you think they're any better to be honest?

Is it the posh accents and sharp suits?

I wouldn't be so certain that labour won't get in, if the under 25s turn out to vote there's a very strong chance they will.

As far as ridiculous reasons for not voting labour goes two of my family definitely won't be voting for JC because someone on Facebook told them that labour would make them have a stranger live in their spare bedroom!🤯

look how fucked we are after 10 years with increased government debt despite austerity

Ah, then you’d have favoured harsher austerity measures so that we could have gotten to an annual surplus. So would I, but I didn’t think you’d agree!

Ah, then you’d have favoured harsher austerity measures so that we could have gotten to an annual surplus. So would I, but I didn’t think you’d agree

Unlike many narrow minded Tories, I believe that austerity was the wrong option 🤷🏻‍♀️

Fabulous, we should have killed off a few more disabled people with harsher austerity, plunged tens of thousands more children into poverty but hey ho as long as a few private's kids can go to an exclusive school that's ok, disgusting.

Unlike many narrow minded Tories, I believe that austerity was the wrong option

Please show me the magic option that would have worked after borrowing under Gordon Brown topped out at around £150 billion per year?

Let me guess ... more spending? Otherwise known as Labour’s answer to everything.

At what point did I say I thought the Tories were any better Iggly? Please don't make up comments for the sake of it.

I have no idea who I'll be voting for, probably an independent only so I have voted. Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems don't represent my views so that doesn't leave many other choices.

Please show me the magic option that would have worked after borrowing under Gordon Brown topped out at around £150 billion per year

Well, given that a big proportion of that was a) mainly due to us bailing out banks, while enabling them to carry on paying shit loads of bonuses
b) having to mop up the under funding of the state by the previous Tory government

I think claiming it was just over spending was the issue, then I think you’re wrong.

Look at how other countries have managed their economies and which ones have done better in the last ten years despite the global economic crisis.

The Tories cut public spending and hey presto we end up with a cut in our credit rating as they tank the economy.

Cutting public spending massively harms the engine room of our country. Profiting banks and other financial institutions without appropriately taxing them has ruined the economy.

So I’d have put stronger conditions on the banks in the wake of the financial crises and made them pay for their crimes.

However, as people are calling Boris an unelected PM I think it's only fair to point out that Labour also have history of doing this

^ that’s why @PinkSparklyPussyCat