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!

which combined with taxation can bring down the deficit and hence the debt.

The reason they’re looking at increasing debt is precisely because she’s realised she’s not going to raise as much as she thought from tax revenues.

Do you think Reeves will increase borrowing / debt?

You studiously avoid answering questions which are clearly beyond the scope of your knowledge.

Noted.

In the longer term, no.

That was the answer. See if you can figure out how it addressed the question. It’s really not that complicated. If you really can’t figure it out, I’ll help you out.

So in the short term yes debt will go up.

Debt servicing will go up.

I thought she had fiscal rules around borrowing not for investment. It looks like she’s softening on that one

Pure guesswork.

The markets disagree with you.

Oh and here’s another one you will like.
These brainiacs schedule a FID meeting before the budget, and guess what - a number of high profiles have declined.

Well she went to Oxford, so she probably can read a bit. I bet you miss Gavin Williamson as Secretary of State for Education. He was an incompetent bully which sounds right up your street.

Williamson was/is a tool - no debate there.

I don't care if she went to Oxford or Gas Street Comp-she doesn't realise that only men have a penis.
It's written down in lots of places, so she is either wilfully ignorant or illiterate.
Any woman who thinks women have a penis is stupid. There is the cap, Biddy, put it on-the big white one with Dunce written on it.

How will you be subsidising private school parents by paying more tax? You are talking nonsense.

I understand how the tax system works perfectly well thank you. It’s you who seem to be confused about subsidies.

I don’t care where they went to school as long as they do a decent job. It’s you who have a problem with where people went to school. The worst prime minister that we’ve had in recent years went to a Yorkshire comp but I don’t hold that against everyone who went to a Yorkshire comp.

DJ has some unresolved issues with anything PS related.

FYI.

Oh look, what’s this?

Bridget Phillipson accused of hypocrisy after playing hockey on private school pitch.

Education Secretary claimed students don’t ‘need’ astroturf…

Why are you obsessed with penises? It's not healthy.

Not obsessed with penises. but quite interested in biological reality and the fucking numpties who deny it for their own political advantage. To the detriment if the truly vulnerable. Because the only people who do so are self serving liars who cannot be trusted. At All.

I’m not sure he could read, actually… WC kids who get into Oxbridge… still pretty hard now, 20 odd years ago even harder.

Fucking hell
Some MN posters really can drag ‘trans’ into anything. Even a debate on whether or not businesses should pay proper tax. It’s a skill,
a niche one, but a skill all the same…

lLt me correct that for you. I'm not obsessed with penises but I'm pretty concerned that we have a Minister who believes some women have a penis.
That means that she believes that men (for that is what transwomen are) should be allowed into women's spaces, sports and take women's awards.
She firmly believes this

I infer from your silly sneering tone that you are either a transwoman (man) or a woman who has-like the Minister has-not got the brains to think it through.

All women should be concerned about this and when any poster comes onto a board to sneer at women for being concerned that magical thinking will filter even more quickly into society, needs to take themselves away by the hand-or the prick as they probably have one.

That is why I dislike Bridget Phillipson and why I believe she is a danger to the young.

End of.

Great post.

Meanwhile, this living nightmare of Labour continues.

‘Rachel Reeves must raise taxes by as much as £25bn in order to ensure Britain does not return to austerity, the IFS has warned’.

It’ll be interesting where she will get it from because she’s ruled out income tax/NIC/VAT rises. Unless of course she breaks this pre election pledge.

We had 14 years of your “living nightmare”, it’s your turn now.

I just heard employer NIC floated on R4

And this is Labour's fault how, exactly?

We've just had 14 years of Conservative government, and sorry to be blunt but they have done a shit job of boosting growth and productivity.

The UK is also grappling with the issues facing all developed countries worldwide - aging populations, the aftermath of covid, the need to fund decarbonization and the end of the "peace dividend" as more and more money has to be spent on security. Those things aren't the fault of Labour either.