Chomper Higgot

Somebody with so little understanding of the part the public sector play in the functioning of the economy thinks he has a fix for what he believes is wrong with it. “Public Sector Services in the UK are a disaster area. I wont go into the reasons now.” Well I’m sure you won’t like to hear many of the reasons.

There’s a difference between ‘can’ and ‘must’.

You’ve posted this photo a number of times Jonny. Is it your gaff?

The Labour Government have a 156 seat majority, they will serve a full term +/- the time the Labour PM decides when is most advantageous to Labour to call an election. The Government are currently front loading the difficult/unpopular policies while at the same time making the investments in the NHS, education, public services and infrastructure that cost big but deliver the improvements the electorate demand. Enacting these policies earlier give time for them to bear fruit before the next general election. No amount of petitions, or online ranting is going to budge a Government with a 156 majority. Out of curiosity, where are these thousands of skilled professionals / tradesmen going?

Farage and Badenoch deserve each other: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/27/farage-threatens-action-over-badenoch-fake-reform-membership-data-claim

In the absence of you having an arguments, I agree.

Ah yet more personal attacks.

3,008,881 people, someone might actually be British citizens with a right to vote in UK elections, don’t understand the decision to call an election is the sole prerogative of the Prime Minister.

You obviously still don’t understand governments are voted in on the basis of their manifesto, so long as Starmer delivers on his manifesto ‘Job’s a good-un’.

They’ve not yet been in power six months and you’ve got the forum’s crystal ball out already.

He didn’t increase the tax burden on working people, which was the manifesto promise.

Thank you for your excellent demonstration of the reactive use of whataboutary.

Opinions differ.

Your linked article is behind a paywall. The heading suggests an opinion on what the writer thinks state schools should do, it doesn’t appear to provide evidence of private schools benefiting state schools. The concept of state schools terrorizing private schools is bizarre.

Nor, in my opinion, are the majority of Tory voters. Those that do exist are being corralled by Farage.

You’re about to be presented with an object lesson in the consequences of applying simplistic solutions to complex problems. Observe the outcome before deciding to import the practice.

You obviously missed the years of austerity visited upon the poor while handing out tax cuts for the rich, neo-liberalism, anti-union legislation and pro-capital legislation.

“I'm not saying all State schools are bad, but there is a reason why politicians such as Tony Blair, Harriet Harman, and Nick Clegg all send their children to London Oratory. A State school I doubt many other parents would get their children into” Thank you for providing an example of precisely why it’s important for the children of the active middle class to be in state schools. These parents take part investing the standards are raised for all pupils in the school.

You might recall Jonny, that during the many BREXIT discussions we both enjoyed I frequently made the observation that the whole point of BREXIT was to prevent the Tory Party splitting. Well here we are. But don’t get your hopes up if the Tories folding, they’ll stick around. And it’s Reform, not the Tories splitting the right wing vote.

Actually the evidence I produced was from an IFS report published in July 2023 at the time of a Tory Government. The IFS is regarded as independent, though in part Government funded and with a Neo-Liberal bias. ‘Vitriolic’ you say.

A lot of ‘could’ and mights’ in that. Yes the IFS is partly defunded by Government, though considered independent it is also accused of having a ‘neo-liberal’ bias. The report I linked and you responded to was published in July 2023, the then Government was Tory. Addressing your points: 1. Yes those are a number of the different offerings’ of private schools, they do relate to funding and hence the necessity for the increase of £2.3Billion into state schools - More is needed but it’s a start. 2. The report recognizes the established economic principle of ‘an inflexible demand curve’. The critique missing is of the ‘mass exodous’ the doom scenarios play on. I don’t see the assumption of ‘demographic concentration’. 3. The report addressed these issues. 4. It might, but your argument is, in summary, the report might be wrong. 5. There is no new tax collecting administration, VAT tax collecting is well established and operates on billions of transactions annually. Schools might want to attempt avoiding paying VAT, it’s not a good idea, very easily traced and prosecuted. Your repeat of the anti Labour political polemic was also addressed earlier. 6. There’s uncertainty in everything, except it would seem the predicted doom. Thank you for taking time to address the report and my earlier post.

This is a discussion on schools Jonny, it’s not the junior school playground.

An interesting analysis, not the doom we are being told to expect: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/tax-private-school-fees-and-state-school-spending

“Again, short sighted, those parents with higher standard of education very likely received it in a Private School or Grammar school system, or from a school in a very good area.” Precisely my point, thank you. The £2.3Billion is an already announced education budget increase, I did provide a link. The Government have not sold out any of your off topic needy.

The claim that private schools ultimately benefit state schools needs something to back it up.