How long do you give Andy Burnham as PM?

[AndyBurnham2L]

Build ‘em up.
Knock ‘em down.

Short honeymoon and then the grumbling will start. It will all be over for him by Christmas.

So, who’s next?

Is that to balance the left wing think thank bias?

Correct. An ageing population, 1 million NEET, and 10 million working age economically inactive. The number of net economic contributors is shrinking, the number of UK millionaires is falling, yet all labour wants to do is tax the productive even more, so as to hand it over in even more welfare benefits. Fuck off with that!

Maybe stop reading certain headlines.

A few days away from the Mail and Telegraph would do some people the world of good.

If you don’t care about the feckless parents have you no concern for the children. If you want to stop the cycle you have to invest. Or does having poor people you can look down upon and despise make you feel warm on cold winter nights?

Hmmm. I doubt there would be as much good done to the nation’s understanding of the world by that as by the left shunning the Guardian and the HuffPost for a day.

At least there wouldn’t be a portion of the population in a lather based on pure speculation presented as fact.

The financial times is my newspaper. It would be helpful if others here read it too.

I have the same level of compassion shown to me from the concerns for children with the introduction of private school VAT.

Wow - you have to pay a bit more to send your kids to private school and you want compassion. You are comparing how you feel as a parent, an adult, to the feelings of a child of ‘feckless’ parents. A child who may need support learning to read so they can escape poverty.

You are confirming every prejudice I have about the type of person who sends their kids to private schools and why I didn’t want my children to mix with them. I hope this is a wind up.

The FT says Burnham is willing to raise taxes for social care funding, not quite as dramatic as you are making out.

Yes. Will no one show more compassion to the rich?!

Labour has literally introduced a direct tax on disabled SEN kids in private schools (taxing their additional learning support). Zero fucking compassion there. Zero. Even the High Court finds the policy to disproportionately prejudice against SEN kids.

Compassion only poor kids but not for rich kids?

Read the subscriber comments!

Your mother obviously did a wonderful job raising her child.

I am concerned that someone who used to teach doesn’t understand capital letters.

Yeah to be honest I’m struggling to find an iota of compassion for you. Your child possibly. You? No.

Compassion that their parents have to pay value added tax on something they’re purchasing of, er, value? No, I don’t think that is something that requires compassion.

Off you pop? How rude!

Really, is one of them yours?

Are they as batshit as the Telegraph's?

Of course!

Don't private schools charge for their extra support anyway?

LEAs can claim the back the vat for EHCP places

Sums up the bitterness in the UK towards any success and the rat pit wanting to pull you down. We’re fucked.