Can Sir Keir Starmer revive the Labour Party? (Vol. 2)

Well for me 20% is 8k which means earning another 16k sucks but is what is is. What it won't do is improve outcomes for kids in underperforming schools. Parents should be angry they pay tax (as does every working person) and standards are poor. Example wait to see education psychologists state sector 4 years. Independent schools 1 week. Those kids who never get help still won't but now they will have to share the fewer school places with more kids.

This in essence the state and parents with kids in state school win as less a burden and everyone still pays tax. Course you could argue we could just have less kids then even lower burden etc. Truth is its an Envy tax but so be it if people vote for it.

Was waiting for BS to highlight this but he must have missed it.

https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/politics/cal...

Outed by hope not hate apparently.












Only joking.

Agree.

I'm not sure what point you are making here? Labour have pulled suport from a candidate they believe may be unsuitable? Surely that's a good thing, isn't it?

See also Angela Rayner

(they're all as bad as one another)

FWIW, my wife is left of centre politics wise and also an education consultant. She doesn't believe there's any upside to this policy and that when you look at the data, you are doing others a favour.

The VAT on Indie schools thing is either a bit of a strange play by SKS or it’s a bit of hardball professional politics.
It’s a crap policy in economic, social or long term electoral reality, but it’s a great red meat policy. It’s a hammer the middle classes policy, it’s simply yet another one to extract £000s from them. Middle to longer term it alienates the mob who put you in power.
But, I wonder if frankly he has no intention of doing this. It’s red meat he can offer up to all the left wing ppl and they all cheer. It’s a nice bit of making his ppl feel good, united, happy and smiling together as they go into the GE. This is good party management, it’s good in house politics. I wonder if, once in power, it doesn’t happen. Or it gets “trialled”, or put out for consultation, or something to fudge it. Because why ps off all those middle class voters when you don’t have to? Yes, it pisses off all your ppl in your tent, but frankly they are irrelevant for the next 4yrs and you just kicked the Tories out, so you can afford to irritate them.
I wonder sometimes if we do SKS a disservice and he is a bit more than he gets credit for.

That is very kind of you to say. I'm not on as much these days, but had a lazy Sunday yesterday, killing time! Take care and have a wonderful week, peace and love, gbn x

I don’t normally agree with this muppet, but he is correct here. SKS has those votes locked in for this GE, England’s middle classes are not voting Tory this time around. It would appear that Scotlands middle classes are also moving away from the SNP which means Labour will pick up those votes. (That’s a very generic position I know, I try and stay away from the rabid cesspit Scottish politics)
The middle classes have had some serious tax rises heaped on them over the last decade, squeezing them more will do no govt much good in the foreseeable future.