To really dislike Bridget Phillipson?

[Sensiblyplease]

I just absolutely can’t stand the woman.

The lady seems to be making decisions based on personal prejudices and causing intentional division in our education system.
She’s not listening to anyone, and the consequences her decisions are having is far too impactful to ignore. As someone in her power she should model balanced politics, based on evidence, instead of in-sighting hate and division.

My children are in state school- we’ve had 3
more children come into their year group with SEN but no EHCPs as their previous independent schools could cope without one. The parents inform me it’ll take a few years and that’s if they get one- and then they can either go back to their previous independent school (as apparently they won’t have to pay VAT with an ECHP?) or have the help they need according to the results of the ECHP.

Im just so angry. I have nothing against these children and can understand they can’t afford the VAT increase and needed to move back into state schools, but it’s now really disrupted the class. The TA is apparently out the class all the time now and the class teacher has 32 children on her own. It appears that Bridget’s insistence and personal hate against the private sector is damaging to state school children. It’s really pissing me off - our children’s education is important and not to be messed around with.

I feel like the woman likes a good headline but is prepared to throw our children’s education away in order to meet her personal objectives / vendettas.

What is she actually doing for state schools? Her headline grabbing titles is deflecting from her actually trying to improve state education in any meaningful and impactful way. 6500 teachers - so my kids get 1/3 of a teacher for their school? That’s shocking. More children entering the state system now puts pressure on their school, and their teachers. What is she actually doing to address this. Where is she magic-ing these trained and qualified teachers from? What is she doing to retain teachers and help with their current work load?

I’m fed up with her agenda effecting normal people. We need someone with a level head to sort schools out. End of rant!

And you have just shown that you have zero understanding of this issue and have fallen for Labour rhetoric hook, line and sinker. I have saved the taxpayer approx £100k so far by using independent schools. Please explain how I am being subsidised. It’s the other way round.

That’s a strawman, but perhaps you know that.

How are Labour planning to improve that? By borrowing even more.

amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/wednesday-briefing-inside-labours-plan-to-move-the-fiscal-goalposts-and-tackle-debt

Nope. You can’t complain about Labour leaving a big debt when the Tories doubled it.

States are not households. Borrowing to invest is basic Keynesian economics. It’s a good idea, unless you are so naive you think austerity works.

Oh yes that’s true since the world Covid crisis and the war with Russian and Ukraine 👍

Cod economics in support of a fanatical aversion to private schooling.

Do share with us - what happened to you, for you to feel this so keenly?

You were criticising the Conservatives for the increase in national debt. My comment was in response to that. So, the Conservatives increasing national debt is a bad thing, but the Labour Party increasing it further is a good thing?

I was not. I was calling OP a hypocrite. She criticised Labour for “having no money left.”

As with all government debt, it depends how you use it. Borrowing to invest in theinfrastructure is the right choice, because you end up with an asset.

Give me strength.

Your party, and a cabinet which was 60% public school alumni, absolutely fucked the country over 14 years and left us the laughing stock of Europe and most of the rest of world.

Somehow, the Tories managed to increase overall taxes to their highest level since the war, not invest in infrastructure and induce a huge increase in interest rates while stoking pointless culture wars.

The Labour manifesto said that they were going to reduce debt, suggesting they think that’s a positive thing to do.

“Our fiscal rules are non-negotiable and will apply to every decision taken by a Labour government. This means that the current budget must move into balance, so that day-to-day costs are met by revenues and debt must be falling as a share of the economy by the fifth year of the forecast.”

You see where they say “day to day”? That’s different to borrowing to invest. If we grow the economy, the deficit decreases.

Learning basic economics would be more useful.

Where did Liz Truss go to school?

All over the place. But they clearly didn’t have much to work with.

Ah ha, there we are.

Lets focus on your fiscal element. In just over 100
days in power, the spread between UK and German 10 year yields has reached its highest in over 12 months.

Why? On concerns that Reeves will have to increase debt because she can’t find the tax revenue. Investment and capital rightly took flight premised on rhetoric and union pay settlements. Good luck with your infrastructure.

Tell me your vocation and background
and I will tell you mine.

The answer is of course that she went to a state comp. She also went to Oxford just like Starmer, Reeves and Philipson. In fact, Oxford is the common denominator amongst Cabinet ministers and PMs across the Tory and Labour parties so why aren’t you blaming them instead of focusing on private schools?

And is there a point for you where debt is too high?

Eg do you look at France and Italy and think that’s good

What a hyperbolic, ridiculous rant! I've seen some of your posts on other threads complaining about how unfair everyone was about the Tories and the lockdown parties so it is clear that you have no moral compass.

You sound like parody from the 1970s with their loony lefties rhetoric.

Non-conservative voters have had to put up with the former Tory Governments' incompetence, lying, Tory austerity and lack of any empathy for 14 years.

You can't manage 3 months of a government you didn't vote for.

Here’s one for you @DadJoke

You will like this.

Current UK/German 10 year spread is 195 bps -
up 30 bps since coming to power.

During the Truss budget? 222 bps.

Well, well, well.

I wasn't suggesting I was CURRENTLY subsiding - it was a response to 'ooh big bad Labour will make you pay more tax' - which is fine by me, because we all need to. And people who claim to be 'saving' 'taxpayer money ... CLEARLY don't understand how the tax system works... if that is the case somehow, then I have saved the taxpayer tons from being healthy and barely bothering the NHS, never needing any kind of benefit not even child benefit, and rarely bothering the state for owt. Well, o far anyway.
But that isn't how it works, is it??

Yes, there is a point at which debt is too high. But PSNI can increase supply-side benefits, which combined with taxation can bring down the deficit and hence the debt.

When 60% of the cabinet attended the same handful of schools, there is clearly a problem. Can’t you see that?