That new runway at Heathrow wont pay for itself.
Good article. I am not aiming this post at you directly, just piggy backing onto it as it is an important topic.
I have only read through it quickly but a concern I had with it, which I think the article alludes to is that this isnāt the 1st time a Government has tried to close the divide and failed. The article references Edward Heath suggesting in 1940 the importance to close the gap and since 1945, when Labour were voted into Government as one of its radical policies we are no further forward as a Country.
My concern - please be assured that this is not a Labour post and that I appreciate that they are very early into their Term - is that the decision to remove the VAT exemption on Private Schools is seen as a bit of a media piece āWe are delivering changeā and āwe are investing in state schoolsā but deflecting from the fact that there is no plan in place.
As I have said I am not being critical of Labour here, the Schools/Education system in the UK is a massive mess through various Governments failures to understand the importance of investing in the future minds, for the benefit of the Countries long terms future.
The monies needed to have an impact are frightening. For example the article states that by removing the 80% Tax exemption, it is expected to raise Ā£1.5bn a year for the exchequer to help invest in Schools.
All well and good but taken from;
āWhat does this money mean for my childās school?
The additional Ā£2 billion will mean that a typical primary school with 200 pupils can expect to receive around an extra Ā£35,000 in funding.
A typical secondary school with 900 pupils would receive an additional Ā£200,000.
Schools can choose how they spend the additional funding, for example, on staffing, classroom materials, or other running costs.ā
I appreciate that the Gov.UK link is not in direct response to the Tax exemption, Iāve used it to put into perspective what Ā£1.5bn will get you.
In my opinion, this is not a Labour/Tory problem it is above that. In order to fix the education system you need a long term PLAN, which is decided by and reviewed regularly by a cross party committee. It becomes a policy which is committed to, irrelevant of Government and with a funding that is to be committed to at a % over inflation.
My bad. I do apologise for not having given my time to read the history of this thread and familiarise myself with the feelings of its patrons, in order have understood the context of your post. Maybe, if you had ā,ā shining in your original post, it would have made your use of sarcasm much clearer and also would have saved you the time and energy to include it in your condescending response.
In order to save myself some time, the above post is me being sarcasticā¦
I find him creepy and devious, he reminds of the character āchild snatcherā in the Chitty Bang Bang film.
The way he back tracked on his views on Trump is so hypocritical and his association with Epstein is rather sinister. I wouldnāt trust him with my budgie, let alone in a political post.
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I was sad to hear this news. This would have been huge boost for jobs in pharmaceutical research in the area.
Cracking stuff from Andrew Rawnsley:
How long before this idiotic plan is put on the back burner, I wonder?
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Absolutely absinine. I donāt get the thinking behind this at all.
EDIT: I still see absolutely no economic case for this at all, and thatās even without weighing it against the environmental impact and the potential costs of that.
And itās things like these that boggle my mind whenever her critics attack her with lies such as that sideshow distraction above about her economic credentials. If you want a reason to distrust her competence with economics, surely this is your attack line?
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I donāt live far from Heathrow and it is detrimental to the environment as well as local people. I am lucky that i donāt live under the flight path. My friend lives in Hounslow which is under the flight path and when you sit in her house, the aircraft noise is so loud and sometimes you feel the vibrations, you canāt hear anything. Her house is triple-glazed.
The roads to heathrow, especially A4 and Bath Road are always congested on a daily basis.
We donāt need a 3rd runway. There are other aiports around the country who would benefit more.
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I sympathise with those in Hounslow but the flight path goes out as far as Reading. The constant buzz of aircraft ran out that far.
I just donāt get this idea. Yes the UK needs growth desperately but I cant help but think theyāre over focussing on it at the detriment of everything else.
I cant shake the feeling we are sleepwalking into real trouble. Perhaps we have been for decades.
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I donāt think thatās out of the ordinary in that going for some unpopular policies at the outset. But theyāre kind doing some good stuff but all too quietly while theres a whole load of wtf things and not really setting any kind of plan either.
Theres very little you can point at and say āyes, thatās a startā
Itās not Labourās decline you should be worried about. Itās Reformās climb.
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Yes absolutely. The tories are dead. Badenoch is hopeless, patheticly poor.
Reform will be awful.
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Iām really not sure Reform is anything more than an emotional spasm.
He is an empty grifter. I just donāt think when push comes to shove the numbers will be there, especially if Trump screws the pooch.
The frog-faced cunt has gone all in on the orange-faced cunt.
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Shades of me reassuring everyone in January 2016 that the Iowa caucuses would demonstrate Trump was nothing more than a distraction
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So City AND Trump are your fault?!?!?!
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State of the cunts we got rid of, the cunts we have now, and the cunts gaining momentum, Iāve come to the conclusion weāre basically fucked
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Time for me to go back to those videos I posted for @Maria
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āTheyāre all the sameā
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Yes. Itās all about damage limitation now. Slowing the decline so our kids can have some quality of life in this fucking backward, failed shithole of a country. Their kids wont be so lucky.
And of course people will still post GIFās like the one above under the delusion one party or another is going to magically turn things around. Fucking laughable.
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