to get hacked off at journalists moaning about how oh so hard it is to afford school fees

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like in the Daily Telegraph for example today

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AFH51SI3AUOK5QFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/education/ 2008/01/30/faclass130.xml&page=2

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at cocaine habit

(d'ya see what I did there?)

Oh good god - poor Mrs Skelton had to work as a barmaid and on a checkout to pay her fees. Oh the shame.

It is such a awful article I thought it had to be an April Fool mocked up by The Guardian.
There has been a lot of bleating in the press about how tough the middle classes have it-Rachel blardy Johnson's columns in The Sunday Times are usually just rants that she can't afford a yacht.

Chequers - that sentence is just appalling. The state education system is there for the common good. All taxpayers should fund it, whether or not they can afford the luxury of opting out of it or not.

If so called self-styled middle-class people think in such an uneducated way (and obviously have no grip whatsoever of politics or economics), it is not surprising that they feel they are slipping socially.

Don't they take rent or mortgage into account too? Why not get him to sell his heavily mortgaged house in Hampstead and buy a mortgageless house in Hendon?

""People think that because we live in a big farmhouse we must be loaded, but we struggle to get by."

btu they coudl still afford to buy it and maintain it surely?
so thats bollocks?
you dont get Sharon and Wayne saying that in inner city brum do you?

Ditto chequers! Most of the parents I know at school who are medics, lawyers, MDs of their own companies etc also went to state school (oh and send their children to state school as well).

Honestly, I'm aghast at that article. Is anyone really supposed to feel sorry for those people?? Really?

i haev a penhouse apartment in kensingotn so peoepl think i am wealthy

er yes.

xenia will
giver her a minute to reprogramme herself.

chequers what amused me was that it wasn't worth working because of her petrol bill. What's the betting she wasn't driving a Matiz or a Ka or something.....

cod, I got the taking into account school fees (and agreed with you), it was the 9.29 post after that I couldn't fathom:

By CaptainCod on Thu 31-Jan-08 09:29:49
if THEY snet TEHIR kids to state schools then htese everyhting woud even out imo.

???

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your council tax is high because you have moved from Surrey to a low population rural area thinking it will be cheap because it is northern you feckwits

but actually you live in the middle of the end of nowhere and the bin men have to take extra provisions for their journey to the end of your farm track

oh sorry
if state schools had eveyone in them and all these ras being governors etc then thre wouldnt be this tow tier systme

although am i right in thinking only 7% of the pop go to private schools?

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yes it is dreadful that they had to have lodgers

good job they had the space

Chequers - not sure I agree with that. I think Margaret Thatcher managed to educate huge swathes of the population in very basic economic principles that they were lacking. Living in France has helped me understand this quite clearly (the French are appallingly unknowledgeable about economics).

Obviously not this particular woman, who doesn't seem to understand anything.

ok have got my stat book out.here

in 2004 586, 000 attended private schools ( nto may is it compared to column inches about them)

AVerage state school classes are 22 only 8% haev over 31

Imagine being that twonk-faced man's lodger?

the same number of kids have special needs as those who attend private schools

only 4.6% are grammr schools

Yes, Chequers, but you don't work at the Telegraph. I did and I went to a state school and was considered almost absurdly working class - I think they half expected me to have swept chimneys for a living or something. When you are surrounded by people at the top all moaning about how they are going to afford next term's fees plus a ski-ing holiday for little Randolph and Clarissa at half term, your values do get a bit skewed.

do they all have "land"

I wouldn't lodge there Swedes - he doesn't have Sky

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