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[Charlie Sweet]

... that are being taken by the multimillionaire son of the editor of the Daily Mail.

You're saying he's getting a scholarship set up for modern day poor kids? Really?

 

[tsubaki]

??? I'm saying how I believe it will be perceived and how it will lose labour votes

Yes, and why? You probably didn't go to private school and you know that between 93% and 95% of kids don't go there either. Why do you think that a proposal that will only affect the wealthy is going to be a vote loser?

 

[peteblue]

It's absolutely perfect narrative that Labour are an extremist socialist party and hypocritical (abbot sending her son to a private school)

Tory hq will be delighted

This really.....

 

[neil999]

Yes, and why? You probably didn't go to private school and you know that between 93% and 95% of kids don't go there either. Why do you think that a proposal that will only affect the wealthy is going to be a vote loser?

I've already explained it a few times

 

[tsubaki]

You're saying he's getting a scholarship set up for modern day poor kids? Really?

No, I am saying he is getting a scholarship set up for poor kids. Why did Paul Dacres' son merit a reduction in his fees?

 

[neil999]

'well I can't afford private school, but if I could then I don't see why I shouldn't have the choice'

 

[peteblue]

Yes, and why? You probably didn't go to private school and you know that between 93% and 95% of kids don't go there either. Why do you think that a proposal that will only affect the wealthy is going to be a vote loser?

Because even those that didn’t go there understand that driving down standards doesn’t help. It also doesn’t help when half the Labour leadership took full advantage of public schooling......

 

[zzr45]

Uh oh. Meltdowns are coming. Extreme mental gymnastics to defend bad policy getting harder.

 

[dannyboy]

Uh oh. Meltdowns are coming. Extreme mental gymnastics to defend bad policy getting harder.

lol

Meltdowns from people who are raging about a policy that doesn´t affect them and won´t decide the next election. It´ll be a footnote in the manifesto.

 

[tsubaki]

I've already explained it a few times

I know, and it makes absolutely no sense. Why do you think more than nine-tenths of the population are going to give two figs for the richest tenth?

 

[Charlie Sweet]

No, I am saying he is getting a scholarship set up for poor kids. Why did Paul Dacres' son merit a reduction in his fees?

When was the scholarship established though? All I'm saying is most of the historic ones have long since beem changed

 

[dannyboy]

'well I can't afford private school, but if I could then I don't see why I shouldn't have the choice'

Yeah, that´s what will be in people´s minds when they enter the voting booth. Not Brexit, not the NHS, just people thinking should they win the lottery they´ll be really peeved about not being able to send their kids to a private school.

 

[tsubaki]

Because even those that didn’t go there understand that driving down standards doesn’t help. It also doesn’t help when half the Labour leadership took full advantage of public schooling......

Who talked about driving down standards? In fact if you take that motion at its most extreme socialist form, it will actually pump billions into the state education system as all the lands, endowments and upper sixth are sold off.

 

[neil999]

I know, and it makes absolutely no sense. Why do you think more than nine-tenths of the population are going to give two figs for the richest tenth?

Why do people think higher rate taxes are unfair when they won't be affected?

Aspiration and perceived fairness

 

[Boss_Blue]

Come on, surely you know their position, it hasn’t changed in god knows how many years.

There's a difference between ideology and policy, Pete - also I'm not expressing surprise, rather, I'm stating the fact that I hadn't realised it had become official policy.

For what it's worth, I don't agree that it's the answer and find it to be a touch hypocritical.