Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

Runnning a county or a company require first and formost strategic vision, leadership, people and communication skills. All successful business leaders have at least one of these...the current Government front bench have none of them.

they could have absorbed the cost for those approaching GCSE - introduced a longer payment plan, reduced fees for a period?

Where do you think the money would come from for that? The magic Labour money tree? The schools most affected by this aren’t the schools with money to spare for flash facilities; they’re the schools working with extremely tight margins. They don’t have the funds to say to parents “oh here’s a fee reduction” or “don’t worry about paying this term’s fees. Pay it when you’re ready”. It’s not just VAT either. The hikes in NIC, business rates and the living wage have added to the problem. It also comes on top of a cost of living crisis.

You can hide a post if you choose to. You're the only one getting upset by it

Benefits spending amounts to around 23% of government spending. By definition it could be argued that any changes to benefit spending will impact the most vulnerable whether it be pensioners, disabled people, low waged workers, single parents. But significant increases in people reliant on the state for whatever reason means the welfare bill will become unsustainable, if we’re not there already.

We need a stable government after years of Tory utter shitshow. They’re not perfect but they are better than the alternative. People should get behind them and engage in proper debate with them not gun for sacking them at every opportunity. People are never bloody happy. Things are a mess. We need to navigate that and try to improve it but there aren't any magic solutions. If there is a war I’d rather have Starmer in charge than Badenoch or Jeremy Corbyn for that matter.

It a result of having no choices

Sounds like those schools were already struggling then.

The whole of the labour Party have NO experience in running a business, they won not because they were offering a new way but becuse the Tories messed up

Well quite - Labour got less votes in 2024 than they did at the previous election where the Tories got a significant majority.

There is always a choice!

Neither did the last one to be fair.

Which tells me the population aren't impressed by any of them so why vote.

Most private schools are. Don’t tell me; you still think most are like Eton or Harrow?

What specific negative impact?

I agree on the food chain, no "powers that be" should be allowed to monopolise anything, I am not sure that is just a Labour problem though.

The geoengineering is largely speculative currently, but agree it is something I am also concerned about. However, there is no policy or moves to do with it in this government as of yet.

No. Lots of people have expressed disgust at what has been said on this thread.

I completely opposed the Welfare Bill. That doesn't mean I want to pile on a woman who was clearly having some sort of break down in public today. She needs support right now and I hope she is getting it.

Men would do well to get their own house in order first

Well, she is acting even more like a Tory Chancellor then a typical Tory Chancellor!

I know that.

Hence Reform doing so well.

But that poor management then? Running one week to the next with no safety net?

parents could have moved their kids? Before it came into effect? No child should be without education so the LA is required to place them and put temporary provision in place until it does.

its not like anyone woke up one day and surprisingly had to pay vat is it - everyone knew it was coming

I agree with this.

So disabled people are probably the smallest percentage. The problem is disabled people and pensioners are the only ones who have no choice. Single parents and low wage earners can change their lives if they chose to do so pensioners and disabled people who is who the government came for are the most vulnerable as they cant.

Maybe we could start by not committing £18.3 billion to Ukraine when we can’t balance our own books? It’s a colossal sum of money that we don’t have and there’s billions more pouring in from other countries on top of our contribution.

I remember Mrs Thatcher welling up in an interview. She had been asked about the damage to working class communities inflicted by her policies. Can't remember if it was Brian Walden. Anyway everyone still thinks she is great. Except the people she fucked over. So who cares.

Tens of thousands.

At ISC schools alone (which represents the majority of, but not all independent schools)

”103, 000 pupils at our schools have special educational needs.
55, 000 pupils are identified as having Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) and 7,000 pupils have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans.”

There are many more who have educational needs or mental health issues without having a diagnosed SEN.