Let’s shine the light on the sunny results of Brexit – poverty, austerity, lower GDP, ruined public services – but don’t worry. Lots of their chums made an awful lot of money!! When you made food too expensive, do away with good health care and mess up education kids suffer. It’s shocking. Welcome to Toryland. If you can’t afford basics then go without. Only the rich count.
Under the Tories the rich get richer and the rest of us a lot poorer!!
All very sad but if you vote for Etonians…..
Why do people do that?
Mmm, long or short answer! I really don’t understand too but lies, misinformation and Conservative central ideologies which may be very different to local councillors. They have to cope with really low budgets and delivery of essential services. So we end up thinking our councils are useless. The anti tax and smaller and smaller government has destroyed our public infrastructure and moral. All happening without being ‘seen’ until the sh..* hits the sea or finally the TV with the Post Office. It is hard to know with schools but a teaching friend said ‘our state education system is as broken as the NHS but no one talks about it’.
I stop as you know and knew too well. Another friend said once ‘there’s not much difference’ but for me there is even as Labour goes to central position and the Green Party can hold the moral ground with fairer, greener policies bit not get enough votes for enough MPs to make a challenge.
This prevailing idea that ‘they are all the same’ is utter bollocks. It is simply not true. The differences are stark. As someone who was in education for thirty seven years and a headteacher when Labour lost to the Tories, I saw the differences first hand and had to manage them. Under Labour the school was properly funded. Teachers were paid well. We got quality staff. The curriculum was wide and teaching styles active and creative. We had building programs and great teaching. The minute we went ovr to the Tories we were starved of funds, teachers’ pay was cut. It was really hard filling vacancies. Good, well-qualified people did not go into teaching. Gove narrowed the curriculum forcing out art, music and anything creative. Teaching styles were stifled. The syllabi became 1950’s style knowledge regurgitation with kids in rows writing down information to memorise for exams. Turgid, boring and useless. We had teaching by numbers, crowded classrooms, poor pay, deteriorating buildings and threw creativity and exploration out the window. It could not be more stark.
The same is true for all public services. The Tories use private health, education and security. They see public services as parasitic and really don’t care about the plebs.
I get so mad.
Georgina, I might put this answer up as a post
Do Opher and I can concur with my experiences and I left just before the Gove stranglehold. The perfectly good enough and very caring primary school my grandaughter goes to is having its third Ofsted as an LA school in three years and was last ‘good with outstanding features’. The local primary academy has not been Osteded in years. Political or not?
Yes. Ofsted is used as a weapon. Divide and rule. The steel fist. Generate fear and force the plebs to work harder for less.
They use those stupid international PISA education tabled to justify they draconian straitjackets. These are memory tests that the Japanese and Koreans cram for. They are not about education at all. It’s 1950’s all over again. Not for the 21st century.
Indeed. Do write your piece. Green Party policy liked by Unions because it predates all this madness and just says no to academisation. Problem is now for the policy group is how to ‘correct’ the mistakes made. Children, parents, teachers all under stress with current system and not as you say fit for 21st Century.
I expanded on my reply and explained my own experience.
Great, will look out for it.
It’s there.
So sad! Can’t believe this is the world we live in.
It’s insane, isn’t it?
Truly is.
How to make it stop??
Just try our hardest I guess.
that’s right.