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Reply | Why can't the UK
at 22:47 21 Mar 2025
That’s so true.
So many parents with young kids are reliant on grandparents. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 21:04 21 Mar 2025
It’s bordering on criminal. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 21:04 21 Mar 2025
Off the top of my head, stopped a number of strikes, reduced hospital waiting lists, banned no fault evictions, raised the minimum wage, reform of workers rights, overseen interest rate cuts, deportation thousands of illegal immigrants, launched planning reform to get us building, increased defence spending and started to repair relations with our European neighbours.
As I said, I’m dissatisfied in many ways with their start but there have been some good points IMO. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 19:53 21 Mar 2025
These are massive things that need looking at.
Those and the ‘shadow’ public sector - Capita, G4S etc. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 18:16 21 Mar 2025
Add the £25k transport doesn’t help either! |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 18:08 21 Mar 2025
Those figures are prior to the increase.
Even if it was, it would still be 3 times more expensive that the maintained school. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:50 21 Mar 2025
There’s a bigger issue here for me.
A place at my nearest LA special school comes in at about £22k. The nearest private one comes in at £85k
This has to be stopped. Massive companies and hedge funds are ripping the public purse off the way they run these schools.
I’ve no issue at all with general private schools - good luck to them, but private, profit making specials should not be allowed. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:35 21 Mar 2025
The amount of work and money wasted is unreal 😩 |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:28 21 Mar 2025
Spot on.
I’ve spent today at an education conference looking at the changes Labour will make.
I’ll probably be doing the same thing for a different government in 4 years time. |
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Reply | Iorwerth
at 17:20 21 Mar 2025
I get the frustration with Labour, I just think it makes sense to push Reform for their plans.
Voters shouldn’t have to go into these things blind. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:11 21 Mar 2025
I’m certainly not thrilled with Labour’s start, but some of the very good things they’ve achieved done seem to get through the media. |
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Reply | Iorwerth
at 17:06 21 Mar 2025
And the irony of those talking about sheep who vote Labour no matter what simultaneously saying they’ll vote for Reform no matter what.
Surely the right thing to do is to say to Reform that you’d like to vote for them, but could you have something to vote for? |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:03 21 Mar 2025
It’s an old video of Starmer saying he would freeze council tax for the year in question.
Shared by the Conservative Facebook page and symptomatic of the issue they’re faced with - any time they ask Labour ‘why haven’t you done this or that?’, the answer is always, ‘you had 14 years, why didn’t you do it?. [Post edited 21 Mar 17:09]
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Thread | Adolescents
at 20:35 19 Mar 2025
On Netflix.
A must watch for anyone with teenage kids in the family. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 18:06 19 Mar 2025
I don’t think British Gas is a success for anyone apart from those who purchased shares at the time.
They’ve just given their boss a £245k bonus so I suppose he’s happy too.
Has the customer experience from BT improved since privatisation?
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 13:06 19 Mar 2025
Yep.
Pretty rare but those Academy schools nomally with have CEOs and central teams on top. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 12:36 19 Mar 2025
Possibly.
And if it did a lot of it would be down to the private sector sucking money out of the public sector.
As for success, I'd hold up schools where ours (in England) are some of the highes performing in the world.
Edit: I should include that the Academy system in England has seen the privatisation of around 50% of schools at a vast cost. There has been no demonstable impact apart from the fact that there are now hundreds of trust CEOs earning over £150k with the best paid earning half a million quid. [Post edited 19 Mar 12:43]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 12:14 19 Mar 2025
...on providing services.
The other option is just privatise everything but I'm strggling to name many successes. |
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