General Election 2024....

[matticus]

Nige is right, they're absolutely swamped.

I think they are IN a swamp.

 

[cookiemonster]

Jonathan Pie part 2


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBr2CojKYbg

 

[AndyRM]

I love Jonathan Pie, especially when he goes off on his wonderfully articulate rants.

 

[monkers]

 

[spen666]

View attachment 6096

For balance purposes only


View: https://www.tiktok.com/@reformparty_uk/video/7356555040661736737?_t=8myZSIyNDuL&_r=1

 

[monkers]

For balance purposes only


View: https://www.tiktok.com/@reformparty_uk/video/7356555040661736737?_t=8myZSIyNDuL&_r=1

Something about brushing Mongolian goats. I'm not quite seeing the connection, but I'll take your word for it Spen.

 

[BoldonLad]

Is this what "levelling up" means? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp33j4rn3meo

 

[icowden]

Is this what "levelling up" means? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp33j4rn3meo

It's actually a great illustration that shows why private schools flourish. As soon as a state school wants first rate facilities it's portrayed as being unreasonable or greedy. A private school just pays for it and reaps the benefits. They not only get to use facilities for their students but also to hire them out to make extra cash.

 

[multitool]

Private schools flourish because they are the preserve of the wealthy. There is nothing more to it than that.

 

[Bromptonaut]

State schools raising money via the PTA etc is an idea at least as old as I am. Our local comp was trying for years to raise the money for a swimming pool. It never happened though.

 

[Beebo]

Sunak issues immediate apology for leaving the D Day events early in order to do an ITV interview where he expressed no apology for lying about the £2000 tax claim.

Funny how it’s easy to apologise for one mistake but not the other mistake.

 

[multitool]

He's screwed.

He was interviewed on BBC and looked like a lying rat

 

[AndyRM]

Says a lot that he's issuing an apology for not sticking around at some flag shagging event rather than lying (or at least being misleading) about Labour's tax plans.

Talk about warped priorities.

 

[icowden]

Private schools flourish because they are the preserve of the wealthy. There is nothing more to it than that.

You keep forgetting the non-wealthy that also go there. It's like you refuse to believe they exist.

 

[icowden]

State schools raising money via the PTA etc is an idea at least as old as I am. Our local comp was trying for years to raise the money for a swimming pool. It never happened though.

Of course - and that's the point. There is no real investment in state schools, and if a state school dares to make an investment in a big infrastructure project it's immediately portrayed as frivolous spending.

Our local state secondary school sold off land a few years ago and did a massive rebuild. It should be pretty state of the art right?

It has a sports hall, a tennis court, a football pitch, a dance studio and a drama studio.

If I compare that with my daughters school it has:-

A heated indoor swimming pool, all weather pitch, sprint track, netball courts and two cross country tracks, a 370 seat professional theatre, a dance studio and a music suite, a chapel which doubles as a performance venue, a smaller performance room for lunch time concerts.

This means that students have full access to sport including swimming - which is a weekly activity for some years throughout the year as well as music, drama and dance. Hence children at private schools tend to be much fitter and healthier and all tend to have the opportunity for artistic output with the vast majority learning a musical instrument.

God forbid that children want to excel at sports or the performing arts in the state sector. The sport with the most elite participation from state school educated adults is football - and those kids didn't get there through football at school.

We need state schools to be funded properly in every respect before we can entice people away from private schools.