To feel so upset about the government censorship?

[Utterlydisillusioned]

This has just appeared in my news feed and I feel so upset and disillusioned. I was a labour voter, thinking we voted the bad guys out but I'm now really scared about what we've let in...what on earth have we done...? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/17/education-secretary-bridget-phillipson-private-school-tax-r/

This. And it isn't just in London.

@Killingoffmyflowersonebyone "Given I work in international policy," Do you?

@AboveBeyond3 "In the interests of balance, try the Guardian -
and their comments section is a sight to behold…."

That's free speech for you...

Thats very true but i really do feel for the children who will be affected so abruptly, to me it feels a bit unnecessary.

So no data showing a link between wfh and economic slow down at all, just a rusty anecdote. Cool

Did the schools not factor this in and make continuity plans?

There's plenty of anti vax stuff online. The misinformation that was allowed to spread during Covid was awful.
Why anyone suppress an alternative way of healing cancer unless it's actually bunkum and probably dangerous.

This. It also annoys me that some schools are passing the entire cost onto parents. Because of the VAT status changes they are also going to save a wodge of money by being able to claim VAT back on some things but that's not getting taken into account or used to mitigate against higher fees.

Excellent point zonder

I would imagine there no need to add to the whole 20%.

But interestingly when a truss crash out economy and private schools raised their fees in line with inflation there wasn't this level of outrage about rising costs.

And the icing on the cake for me is the fact it's only because of Brexit we can charge VAT on private education.

Funny how chickens coming home to roost is what causes dummies to be spat 🤔

I think this is maddest response I've read on here. What on earth are you talking about?!

A lot more children were affected much more deeply and for much longer periods of time by the deliberate cruelty under the guise of “austerity” and “personal responsibility” meted out by the governments of 2010-24. Moving to a different school isn’t that bad compared with being cold, hungry, having to sleep on a mattress on the floor, having to study in cold crumbling classrooms and be taught by TAs and all the other appalling things normalised in recent years.
It does often feel like “personal responsibility” only applies to certain groups and not to those who chose education that they couldn’t really afford.
Nobody need reply to me with accusations about hating SEN parents; I have more experience with disability and SEN than most.

Its all relative.

Many of the comments are beyond the pale, and if a DT reader made them, you would be apoplectic.

To upset working class people by effectively telling them that you get a heavier prison sentence than you do for rape (multiple instances of sentences handed out over the last few weeks being longer than some rape cases, even when there is DNA evidence).

How would we know? The backlog in trying rape cases grew so long under the last government that rape’s essentially been decriminalised. If sentencing guidelines for riot are being adhered to, what’s your problem?

Has anyone mentioned "the violence inherent in the system" yet ?

I think the upper class and the landed gentry have got much shorter sentences for rioting, although I cannot quote any facts but. know this as a fact based on what I know and read. I am not privy to the sentencing guidelines or have deliberated in any way concerning the facts and evidence in the cases. I also don’t know whether Starmer has interrupted his holiday to intervene in every single case and adjusted or implemented legislation after a few weeks in Parliament despite the summer recess. I blame Labour for impinging the right to protest in the Tories’ Police, crime, Police, sentencing and Courts bill, which they didn’t oppose effectively.

I am going to register my outrage at this government and want them to resign.

Yep.

Out local tort MP deleted negative comments all of the time. It's not new.

Absolutely no politician is honest. Surely you must know that. Don't trust any of them. Please don't tell me you actually believed a word of that crap he was spouting before the election.

When have the “landed gentry” rioted? Pretty poor to claim knowledge of “facts” but not evidence when you can’t have one without the other.
The two tier sentencing theory as it relates to the recent race riots is a tacist fallacy. Like most fallacies, it has some origins in fact - historically certain groups of people have been discriminated against in the judiciary/penal system. I don’t include racists in that though.

Landed gentry rioted? When?

When have the “landed gentry” rioted?

Croissants at dawn !

I am going to register my outrage at this government and want them to resign.

Did no one ever teach you that you can't always get what you want ?

On a much more serious note, it seems there is a developing mindset in some that all they need to do is stamp their feet and they will be granted their hearts desire. And if by some chance they aren't, it's not because it's never worked that way. It's because they are being "suppressed".

So your someone thinks:
I am going to register my outrage at this government and want them to resign.

and when that doesn't happen, rather than bother to research parliamentary democracy and how it works, they just wail that "it's a conspiracy" and get together with similarly minded folk as if they have a justification for whatever it is they then plan doing.

All tactics imported directly from the US. Who needs a trade deal.

English Civil War? tho' that's getting to be quite a while ago

LOL!

I think it would be more effective to 'scweam and scweam until you're thick'.