That Starmer fella...

Anyway, looks like the schools have told parents to pay next years' fees in advance to avoid any tax changes.

Bet they're silently glad of the news as they get to sit on a load of cash paid in advance...

I'd guess that staff is probably a bigger issue than classrooms and there may well be some staff available (although private schools employing unqualified teachers could be an issue there).

Of course there are plenty of other schemes to minimise the tax on private school fees. Paying through a trust is a favourite one.

Anyway, looks like the schools have told parents to pay next years' fees in advance to avoid any tax changes.

So parents that can't afford an extra 20% can just pony up a whole hundred percent lump sum?

I know right. Thoughts and prayers.

It's so unfair. The ones that can afford to pay in advance will save more money than those who don't have as much spare cash.

In academies you only need English, Maths and Science at GCSE level to teach.

The Tories want all schools to be academies by the end of the decade.

That’s recruitment numbers if not quality addressed.

(Also noting that the general sufficiency crisis, mainstream and special, has strong roots in the 2010 Academies Bill. Strangely, despite LAs being unable to expand place numbers or open new schools (belatedly they can ‘sponsor’ a free school, thanks for that), the sufficiency crisis is down to the” LEA”, most likely because they are militant and/or woke. Wait until the frothing SEND and AP Implementation Plan shows in all its detail…..)

dibs

On here?

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1708386631068090716

Dibs is sh~@t

Starmer needs to set out his position on dibs rather that sitting on the fence

Late night for Keith tonight. Interesting watching the colonial overlords on Newsnight fundamentally misunderstand the political landscape in Northern Britain. Linden allowed to read his Spad cliff notes whilst the arse grease collects about his own seat. The ingrained sleaziness of Lanarkshire politics certainly not mentioned.

blah blah Keith blah colonial overlords blah blah

I mean, you may well have an interesting point to make somewhere under all the undergrad SWP rhetoric, but fucked if I can tell what it is.

Massive 20pt swing from SNP to Labour in yesterdays by election.

No wonder though, the SNP are in real turmoil and the candidate they had was a complete idiot who was barely allowed to speak herself so its not surprising that the labour candidate won.

I have a dislike of statist centrist social democrats. The bloc vote in Central Scotland is an enabler of this and has clearly shifted back to Labour to be patronised and taken for granted yet again.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness

The events following the demise of St John of Monklands East being a perfect example of the rottenness at the heart of the transaction based clientilism underneath Lanarkshire politics.

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Bro, it reads like you were drunk last night and have just woken up and cracked on again.

Is everything OK?

Bro

This kind of rotten language is typical of the transaction based clientilism so prevalent on this board, a forum whose greasy members congeal in the centrist statist rump like rendering fat. All we are, is buttock butter in the wind, dude.

Keith.

https://youtu.be/6_4mmevSlyg?feature=shared

Ok. I mean, it’s entirely valid to highlight the flaws and corruption in our current democratic process. But I fell out with anarchism a very long time ago because it doesn’t really offer any way forward - there’s no guarantee that if we scrapped everything and allowed people to self-organise a replacement way of running society, we wouldn’t end up with the same thing or worse. Plus there’s all the bloodshed involved in scrapping the thing, of course.

TL:DR I’ll probably end up voting for ‘Keith’, my teenage self would have hated me for it and grumbled impotently about the inherent injustice of the world.

Not sure if those two are in any position to be talking smack about other people shitting their pants in public
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For me, nothing is more important than getting the Tories out and I'll vote for anyone who is most likely to do that.

This is the most lying, cheating, corrupt and nasty iteration of Government that I have had any experience of (as an adult). They have completely driven the country into the ground. The only actions they have taken for months, if not years are ones that they know will just drive further division. They are not doing anything with the aim of actual improvements, they're just desperately trying to cling on to power or more likely just limit their losses, because they know cannot win.

They have destroyed everything they have touched, there is absolutely nothing that is working better than it was before the Tories came into power.

Oh I 100% agree with you. Last thing I want is to contribute to making our current reality worse by failing to use the limited levers I have to try to make things better, just because the options on the table don’t match up to my hopes and dreams.

+1

I've never been a Labour Party member, and as someone who self-identifies as a Centerist Dad, it's not my natural home. I have never participated in politics. However, since a bit before Truss came in I've been planning to volunteer come the next election.

I can't put into words the visceral hatred I have towards these people and what they've done to our country over the last 13yrs.

I fell out with anarchism a very long time ago because doesn’t really offer any way forward

I mean it's basically only fit for Jonestown and those weird fringe communities in Salt Lake City isn't it?

Even if you just go through the news cycle and pick eg what would the water companies do without a State?

Always been interested in politics and government, but never been a member of a party. I've voted Labour, Lib Dem and Greens over the years in parliamentary and local elections depending on who the candidate was, what the local issues were or who was most likely to beat the Tories (albeit in a safe Tory seat and one were the current Tory mayor of the borough lives about 6 doors down the road - he is a nice guy to be fair).

I've thought about getting involved, but I don't think i could be part of a party machine and bite the bullet to toe a party line on something I just don't agree with.

These Tories have been dismantling democracy before our eyes:
Deliberately lying to parliament, lying to the Queen to prorogue parliament, diluting the power of the courts to oversee government, restricting the right to protest (even making protest a thought crime in some cases) and disenfranchising voters (in an attempt to gerrymander an election). Its a slippery slope.