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“Just normal middle class families…”

If a school needs state support then it can open itself to everyone and invite state oversight.

Yeah, though my boss who sent his kid private was endlessly moaning about them. My issue is that even my mate who is on benefits’ kid should have that opportunity. Ultimately I wouldn’t ban them but I would aim to make them redundant by sorting out education. Especially on issues like you...

There’s two issues with private education. One is the elite schools where kids are very much inoculated from the real world and the school serves as a conveyor belt into powerful jobs. A certain rather sociopathic ideology is infused along the way. The other is good quality kids airlifted out...

The other option of course is you make it easier to exclude the twats and have a proper system to managing them and their often multiple issues rather than bouncing them around the worst schools in the council for 10 years.

Notbing used to piss me off more as a teacher than when I had to break from helping a student move up to an A or A* (as it was then) to tell some twat to stop being a twat.

You’ve got to remember the pitch will be to first Tory MPs who care about tax cuts the most then to the members who care about social conservatism the most, I wouldn’t expect much on climate, levelling up, etc.

Id argue it’s a sliding scale depending on socioeconomic issues. Just an extension of what a lot of school do now with setting where they have 30 in top set and 10 in bottom set.

Completely agree. A focus on class sizes of 15-20 max would be the best education policy you could propose but my god the headline figures would be eye watering.

“better state schools” means more well off parents and not much else. It’s not something funding will fix really, it’s more about housing policy. Any school that gets a rep will be swarmed by the middle classes until the poorer families are pushed out. This is the elephant in the room of...

Im really on the fence about grammars. I think a lot of good kids get ruined by state education in poor areas, but equally I’m not sure about pushing the already poorer areas even further behind (which is unquestionably what selective schools do to those around them). Sticking with my policy of...

I don’t thunk you’ll find many Labour supporters who are against increased education funding. If you’re serious about offering what private students have to all student (or anything close to it) you’re looking at doubling the state education budget though. Personally I’m all for that, I don’t...

Well have bled Adi’s Chelsea youth team dry soon surely?

He’s barely got in their side since signing and now they’re a division higher.

I’m guessing Panzo at LCB just because of our history there. LWB from a top team hopefully.

It is. Not least because there’s no sane way to argue against it. It’ll bring out all the Rees-Mogg types to get all flustered about why no one will think of the Etonians.

I’m sure Grendel will be all over this what with his concern for inflation.

Now waiting for Javid to promise no taxes whatsoever.

Talking about charging VAT as well.

Well Zahawi has confirmed he’s not a serious contender. Wants to lop £40bn off the NHS…