On Private schools:
So my take on this is that there should be one universal standard of education. That is to say that private education should be abolished, if we look at the elite of Britain, those who rule Britain, we find they're all privately education individuals.
Britain is a nation where the "small elites" educated at independent schools and Oxbridge are dramatically overrepresented across public life, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
The government backed organisation, which monitors whether the UK is becoming a fairer place or not, examined the backgrounds of more than 4,000 business, political, media and public sector leaders.
The research revealed that more than seven in ten (71%) of senior judges, 62% of senior armed forces officers and more than half (53%) of senior diplomats attended private schools.
The study also found that cabinet members are five times as likely to have attended private education
The research said shadow cabinet is three times as likely. Almost two in three Lords (61%) come from just 24 universities.
The report also said that large numbers of CEOs of the FTSE 350 (47%) and those in the Sunday Times Rich List (26%) were educated abroad.
Excluding these, 41% of British-educated FTSE350 CEOs and well over half of those in the Sunday Times Rich List (60%) were educated privately. Over a quarter of the Rich List (29%) did not attend University.
Even Olympic winners tend to be privately educated. It's becoming clear that private education offers more opportunities and the vast majority of people can't afford to attend these schools, so if we wish to destroy class distinctions in education and overall inequality we need to abolish private education.
We need all schools to be free and everybody to have equal opportunity.
To what extent should we privatise the NHS?
This angers me a lot because all main party's argued in favour of Some degree of privatisation.
They only wanted "Limited" amounts of privatisation pertaining to waiting lists. But anybody with a brain cell knows that it will expand, more and more will be sold off and privatised. Like the 1bn contracts on sale now, Lockheed Martin owns 70%!
Since reports have emerged showing that some people have died or gone blind from not receiving vital operations earlier, they propose that we should have private healthcare to offer these to people who wish to have a sort of "Fast track."
There's only 1 issue... A very serious issue everybody needs to take into mind... Not everybody can afford Private healthcare. A simple cut on ones thumb can cost upwards of 1 million dollars in places with privatised health systems, the U.S. Is where I'm deriving my example. The main purpose of the NHS is that it's free at the point of use and It's available to everybody who needs it regardless of class background.
So what we will find is the rich getting better treatment than the poor. The poor will not be able to afford the private healthcare, only the rich will be able so this very proposition is founded off only benefiting the rich. And this was coming from a Labour politician Recently! UKIP I didn't expect anything more from but to be blatantly anti-working class really demonstrates new labours real interests... Serving the 1%!
If we look at George Osbourne, He kept 30 billion back from public spending. By 2020 the NHS faces a £30billion gap in its funding! In last Years National Insurance £106 billion was spent. The benefits system got £85 billion, the NHS got £21 billion.
But the government has held back 30 billion last year. What is Osbourne doing with it?
National ÂInsurance money can only be used for the NHS or welfare. So since he can’t spend it on anything else and chooses not to fund Âhospitals, the Chancellor lets it sit there.
We need a lasting solution to fund a service we all depend on. So let’s fill the black hole and fund a new National Health and Care Service with our own little pot of NHS gold.
The Tories utopia is that of the 1930's, enormous cuts and privatised healthcare.
(UKIP are no better, they're exactly the same wanting to follow the U.S. Example with an insurance that doesn't work and is set out only to con people.) That £30 billion needs to be used! People are getting older and demand is rising! Also- I agree with Labours proposal on the 'Mansion Tax.' But most importantly, cut MP's wages! Care workers got barely a 1% rise whilst MP's got an 11% rise!
In this we can only revert to what Lenin said in his April Thesis: the salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker.