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!

Boo fucking hoo, plenty of people have lost their jobs because of the Tories. Can't she get a job in a state school?

Is it beneath your DD to transfer her skills to work with the children of plebs then in normal, non toff schools? Is she scared she'll catch chavitis?*

YABVVVU

And a snob

(*Sarcasm by the way)

I really think you should be seeking treatment for your anxiety, OP.

Maybe some journaling might help? Or even some creative writing?

If labour gets in it will be terrible for so many people. My parents won’t be able to afford food and bills. They rely on the income from a bungalow that they rent out. But if labour get in then apparently they’ll be forced to sell. Labour has some terrible policies at the moment which penalise hard working people.

@boujie well that and well paid work with ok taxes (which will cease to exist under Corbyn). Why would anybody choose to stay? There is literally nothing to keep people here asides from good schools and wealth. If you loose that you loose most of your net contributors.

@Wiltshirelass2019 what on earth are you on about? When have Labour said they won't be able to rent out their bungalow and will be forced to sell up?
All they have said is that they will bring in fair rent caps which is desperately needed. It's a return to the rent officer who would stop private landlords taking the utter piss out of tenants.
Sorry but if they don't appreciate that they are exactly the type of landlord I'm hoping as a renter does get forced out of business.
Tenant's deserve rights. We're not there to pay for a nice retirement whilst we'd have to choose between eating and putting our heating on.

And what policies are damaging to hard workers? The Tories have been appalling to everyone bar the 1%. I suggest you put down the Sun and Mail and actually read their policies properly.

I doubt there's even a DD. The whole OP sounds like a "best in class" effort from a school of paid political agitators whose current commission is "rubbish Jeremy Corbyn". Craftily posted in the highest traffic part of MN, rather that the most appropriate, so that the power of Google will make it look like all the UK hates Corbyn, and somewhere a company gets it's bonus for so-many-thousand clicks.

A real person, posting in the real UK, with real concerns would much more likely be worried about the NHS and state of social care in the UK. The problem with that worry is that we all know how bad it would be under the Tories. So better hide it with a pile of bullshit so fresh it's still steaming.

If MNetters want a new game, it can be "let's guess the next bullshit Corbyn smear" ? We could use this thread to hide it in too .

The very essence of the selfish attitude that has allowed 10 years of Austerity which has literally decimated the lives of thousands and thousands of people. As a previous poster said, its a about private schools losing their charitable status, not closing them down. Look online and you will be able to see Labour’s plans for education.

BiBiBirdie how predictable, please don’t just assume I’m a Tory just because I’m not a labour voter! I’ve never voted for them in my life. And I don’t read tabloids. My parents are fantastic, conscientious landlords. Worked very hard all there lives, payed all their taxes. they were fucked over on their pensions so don’t have much, so they really do rely on the income, which is now under threat from labour. Myself and my husband will be taxed more, which is shit, but we’ll cope! I just feel like labour are there to punish hard workers. The rich will get away with it all as usual and us the middle will suffer.

well that and well paid work with ok taxes (which will cease to exist under Corbyn). Why would anybody choose to stay? There is literally nothing to keep people here asides from good schools and wealth. If you loose that you loose most of your net contributors.

I question the value of the schooling you received if you can't tell the difference between 'lose' and 'loose'.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-right-buy-scheme-houses-landlords-tenants-john-mcdonnell-corbyn-a9088211.html%3famp

how would boris affect us though? He’s not trying to tell us how to live. He’s also not going to confiscate our livelihood (DH has his own business). Nor will boris cause an economic crisis.

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. The man is hell-bent on a no-deal Brexit. The reality of our so-called “democracy” is that we have the choice at the impending general election of voting for one of two egotistical, privileged white men who are promising to fuck up our economy, cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their jobs, and perpetuate the nasty social divisions that are poisoning this country. Different ideologies, same fucking shit outcome for us.

Won't that be fantastic if everyone had the opportunity to access gold star education rather than a privileged few?

Do you honestly think that abolishing private schools would magically provide ‘gold star education’ for everyone?

OP you are so concerned that you had to start a thread yet you've not even bothered to join in the discussion. I suggest when you are awake worrying tonight you educate yourself on Labour's actual education policy (not just what was discussed at conference); I'm sure you'd sleep much more soundly.

I read this shit and just think tory party central office think we are mugs who are going to believe this kind of nonsense. Its blatantly made up.

1. not a real threat (JC is never going to get in, even in a best case scenario of never never land where labour did manage to win, it would certainly not be with a majority to implement this policy).

2. not a real problem (see problem of teacher shortages and recruitment crisis in teaching.)

You’ve go no worries. Your beloved Tories will remain in power.
You see for some strange reason despite the suicides sanctions and austerity the British Public seem to adore them, as I’ve alluded to on previous threads and will keep alluding to, until I’m proved wrong and they’re hoofed out.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider I don't disagree with you but you can surely see what a woeful state the opposition party is in.

Labour will never get in

It will not happen, please don’t worry about it. It’s just another far fetched idea they are throwing around with no grounds in real life.
It would only ever happen if the country becomes socialist and monopolies everything and starts nationalising left right and centre, in which case your current fear will be the last of your worries.

Private schools won't be scrapped even if Labour did get in. Yes, the charitable status element might be looked at, which I don't personally have an issue with but at the end of the day, parents who send their children to private schools still have to pay tax so in effect they are saving a place at a state school but still helping to fund them. Apart from there being a lot of other priorities, I don't think that the intention is to remove choice from parents, just ensure that private schools are not unduly benefiting from their status. What I'd like to see is more investment in the state system so that talented children don't lose out just because their parents can't afford to send them to an independent school.

You know the wise MN saying “When someone tells you who they are, believe them”?

Believe Labour. If they ever get into power, the spiteful little authoritarians will most certainly abolish private education, with great speed and gusto. It’s what they’ve been waiting for their whole lives.

Abolition of private schools would probably fall foul of the Human Rights Act

😂😂😂

Just when you think you've heard it all.

It's a pity that people read the spin in the right wing newspapers, which are desperate to avoid Labour ever getting elected. Not a chance that independent schools will ever be scrapped. Just scaremongering.

I'm quite looking forward to demonstrations in the street in support of this newest and most pressing human rights issue. It will be like a real life version of Eton Rifles.

Isitsixoclockalready The policy was literally announced at the Labour conference!