Comments by "California Dreamin\x27" (@californiadreamin8423) on "Starmer faces down hecklers as he breaks with Corbyn in Labour conference speech" video.

  1. Education Education Education.....my recollection is that it was the war cry of Harold Wilson....and I benefited from that war cry....it wasn’t easy and required hard work. My parents couldn’t afford their parental contribution to my grant, when I was at University and I managed on 2nd hand books and the Library. That helping hand , made me a 40% tax payer for most of my working life. I’m shocked to learn that Public Schools have charitable status. The boating lake at Eton, funded by the National Lottery, can be seen from Space !!! Food Banks.....did the people of this country make the sacrifices they did , for this country to end up like this ??? My parents wouldn’t use the words of Angela Rayner , but they would agree with her. I now know why they hated the Tories and they will be turning in their graves at the state of the country now. £200,000 to tart up the Downing Street doss of King Boris and his brood, is wicked.
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  2.  @oliverdesvaux  No it’s not. If parents want a private education for their children, with smaller class sizes and excellent facilities, they have to be prepared to pay for it......not expect to be subsidised by the general public and/or those who cannot afford private education. Regarding Grammar Schools , pretending they were all centres of excellence, is simply not true. I went to the historic grammar school in my town, to study maths, physics and chemistry, at A level, with the best grades at O level from my Secondary Technical School, and found the standard of tuition in Maths and Physics abysmal, although the young Chemistry teacher was excellent. I didn’t need Chemistry and had to neglect it, although I passed. Only 2 out of about 14 , passed physics, but it taught me how to self study which was very valuable at University. Many friends went to the other Grammar school in town to study A level and they did very well. That is why I say Grammar Schools were very varied......perhaps if they’d received better funding instead of state recourses being creamed off for private education, the standards would have been higher. I haven’t even mentioned primary education, or Secondary Modern Schools, were so many of my friends were “abandoned “. I didn’t even mention the 1944 Education Act . PS. Don’t start getting personal, because your slur about “the politics of envy” , I totally reject. I would also point out that in Sweden , 6.8% of their GDP is spent on education, and in the UK it is 4.1%. This finding speaks volumes.
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