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!

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

So you’d have just continued or even increased spending, right? Then don’t complain that we’re not in surplus (we are now running a much smaller deficit than under Labour) when your plan would have created a far larger debt.

So you’d have just continued or even increased spending, right? Then don’t complain that we’re not in surplus (we are now running a much smaller deficit than under Labour) when your plan would have created a far larger debt

The economy has shrunk. If you invest - then you grow the overall economy. Look at how the economy grew under New Labour. Which meant more gains for everyone.

The economy has slowed under the Tories.

If you grow the economy then you can increase your investment in the public sector.

My aim would be to grow the economy. Slashing and burning means it needs to be rectified in later years.

Unless of course you think it’s acceptable that people die due to austerity, that education crumbles, that things literally fall apart?

Its no wonder labour had to spend more - if the Tories did more to invest in infrastructure then it wouldn’t become a shit show.

It won't happen. But even if it did, presumably your DD went to a "state" university and if she is in her 30s will have qualified with a reasonably small student debt. Why would she not consider sharing her teaching skills with children educated in the state sector? Or are you worried she might catch common/working class? Newsflash: if she works, she is working class.

Can she not work in a state school for some reason?

You are being incredibly unreasonable and silly to stay awake worrying about something that is unlikely to ever happen. HTH.

Even more unreasonable when you consider the fact that if it did happen she could get a new job easily enough or just stay at the same school which would still exist, just as a state school.

I think JC is very dangerous and will definitely not vote Labour

What are you scared of?

The terrifying prospect of people being able to feed themselves without resorting to foodbanks perhaps? Or maybe state schools improving enough that private education doesn't buy quite so much privilege?