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A piece on British politics and touching on public sector fiscal policy


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Sorry, guy, from someone who is on the Outside of the UK looking in.

I'd say your top schools are one of the best things you have working for you.

I wouldn't want to see that abolished, or I wouldn't want to see that disappear.

 

However, if you were a true abolitionist of unequal opportunity, then money would not be the deciding factor as to whether or not one gets into a school. However, that's not how it works. On your taxes you are given the choice as to whether or not you fund one system over the other, correct?

So the private schools are based on cash money only, regardless of taxes paid?

 

I don't know how I feel about that. It sort of makes sense, however, if the system leads to superior student product, then I'd have to argue that kids in the other system be given opportunities to receive grants on a level of achievement scale, or a level of recognition scale.

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A piece on British politics and touching on public sector fiscal policy

No. We don't get to decide where our tax money goes, these schools don't have any tax funding but they can receive tax money through a few twist and turns a subsidy here and there and wahla.

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A piece on British politics and touching on public sector fiscal policy

 

by MrDelta

So the rich, even if they enroll their children into private school, they have to pay for taxes for public school anyways?

I'd say that's a good deal.

 

I honestly cannot imagine the private schools are that much better, except perhaps in the way they treat students. I'd imagine the protocols or etiquette or professionalism of private school might be the deciding difference between the education. Knowledge, skill, and practical skills sort of being irrelevant.

 

The gamma deta beta phis or whatever, they are slobs. I think the public schools have the clear advantage if we are looking to give students the opportunity to learn.

 

I don't believe any learning happens at the private school level.

 

I am basing my experiences through a few high schools. Public, and Catholic, which is not funded privately, but it uniformed and the closest thing I can think of in terms of private school.

 

 

To put things this way, I think private style schools are a jail sentence. It feels like being a senior high school student being trapped in kindergarden. Public schools by comparison was like being in a candy store.

 

I believe similar, but not exactly the same things could be said about the higher education systems as well. Only guessing.

 

Well that certainly Would be a good reform to make the rich pay higher taxes, I'm not talking about small scale changes... I'm talking revolution. A revolution is what changes systems. But I do think that the rich should pay higher taxes.
Private schools do treat students better, but they also gave them more qualifications... The very fact you have been at a private school makes you more employable than anybody else from a public school. You ware guaranteed as good job, they're academic in nature and assure some level of intelligence though no virtue. It's literally a big fuck you to the commoners. We need to abolish private education and have a universal standard, where no matter what background you come from you are guaranteed the same opportunity as everybody else. I'm trying to eliminate inequality. I was educated in a catholic primary that was awful, they treated pupils terribly and were intellectual restrictive. I got kicked a few times, I was a very disruptive person with a terrible behaviour. I dropped out of High school, they treated me terribly and were also intellectual restrictive and was overall terrible... The people went there now work very low paying and terrible jobs, my last job was a lawyers assistant where I learned a little about practical law. Now I just sit at home, read and write extensively and smoke green.

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A piece on British politics and touching on public sector fiscal policy

On the topic of FTSE, If the national wage had kept up with FTSE100 CEO salaries since 1999, it would now stand at £18.89 per hour, instead of £6.50 per hour. not even that, some families are forced to work over 4 jobs, have welfare cut because of that, charged twice as much on tax and are left having to choose between feeding their children or feeding themselves. That is below 6.50. 

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A piece on British politics and touching on public sector fiscal policy

So the rich, even if they enroll their children into private school, they have to pay for taxes for public school anyways?

I'd say that's a good deal.

 

I honestly cannot imagine the private schools are that much better, except perhaps in the way they treat students. I'd imagine the protocols or etiquette or professionalism of private school might be the deciding difference between the education. Knowledge, skill, and practical skills sort of being irrelevant.

 

The gamma deta beta phis or whatever, they are slobs. I think the public schools have the clear advantage if we are looking to give students the opportunity to learn.

 

I don't believe any learning happens at the private school level.

 

I am basing my experiences through a few high schools. Public, and Catholic, which is not funded privately, but it uniformed and the closest thing I can think of in terms of private school.

 

 

To put things this way, I think private style schools are a jail sentence. It feels like being a senior high school student being trapped in kindergarden. Public schools by comparison was like being in a candy store.

 

I believe similar, but not exactly the same things could be said about the higher education systems as well. Only guessing.

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A piece on British politics and touching on public sector fiscal policy

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 ­Insurance 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 ­hospitals, 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.

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