Those dirty commies want to steal my school.

Over my dead body. Friends! To the barricades!

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Over my dead body. Friends! To the barricades!

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We will confiscate private businesses and decide where and how you can spend your hard earned cash.

Seems fair :rolleyes:

The lefty bedwetters are also looking to blame Brexit on Thomas Cook collapse, rather than the fact they entirely outdated business model and have been run appallingly for the past 10 years

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Originally Posted by IUFG

We will confiscate private businesses and decide where and how you can spend your hard earned cash.

Seems fair :rolleyes:

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What I'd really like to see is Jeremy and The Boy Owen telling the First XV that their school now belongs toi the state. :hehe:

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The lefty bedwetters are also looking to blame Brexit on Thomas Cook collapse, rather than the fact they entirely outdated business model and have been run appallingly for the past 10 years

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10 years, you say?

Thomas Cook's incompetence led to them giving me around £7,000 once. As a sort of gift. :hehe: wd tc.

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They never explain how destroying excellent schools will make all the other schools better, do they? They just persist in this mad idea that levelling everything downwards will somehow improve what's left because it just will. They never acknowledge that the removal of privileged access to quality does not mean that that quality is spread more widely. It never has in history because that's not how the supply of goods and services works.

It's purely envy, spite and magical thinking - the equivalent of thinking that closing down Michelin-starred restaurants will somehow make Gregg's food better.

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They never explain how destroying excellent schools will make all the other schools better, do they? They just persist in this mad idea that levelling everything downwards will somehow improve what's left because it just will. They never acknowledge that the removal of privileged access to quality does not mean that that quality is spread more widely. It never has in history because that's not how the supply of goods and services works.

It's purely envy, spite and magical thinking - the equivalent of thinking that closing down Michelin-starred restaurants will somehow make Gregg's food better.

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Dunno what the research says, but it seems logical to assume that chucking a load of kids into a state school who would otherwise have gone to private school will raise the standards of the state school :shrug:

I'd definitely be chuffed to bits if my kids' school suddenly had an influx of the type of kids who get sent to private school.

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Dunno what the research says, but it seems local to assume that chucking a load of kids into a state school who would otherwise have gone to private school will raise the standards of the state school :shrug:

I'd definitely be chuffed to bits if my kids' school suddenly had an influx of the type of kids who get sent to private school.

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Surely there will just be a massive rise in home education via private tutors?

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They never explain how destroying excellent schools will make all the other schools better, do they? They just persist in this mad idea that levelling everything downwards will somehow improve what's left because it just will. They never acknowledge that the removal of privileged access to quality does not mean that that quality is spread more widely. It never has in history because that's not how the supply of goods and services works.

It's purely envy, spite and magical thinking - the equivalent of thinking that closing down Michelin-starred restaurants will somehow make Gregg's food better.

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I think it was John McDonnell on the radio this morning who would not answer the question about the knock on effect of house prices (and other economic impacts) if this educational utopia was realised. All he would say was "isn't it better if all schools are excellent"

Quite clearly it is targetting Eton (#AbolishEton) because of Tory prime ministers and other aristocrati types whilst not considering the thousands of other private schools where parents scrimp and save to give their kids a better education than the local comp.

Still, at least we can look forward to more public sector strikes...

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Dunno what the research says, but it seems logical to assume that chucking a load of kids into a state school who would otherwise have gone to private school will raise the standards of the state school :shrug:

I'd definitely be chuffed to bits if my kids' school suddenly had an influx of the type of kids who get sent to private school.

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Well, no, since the comprehensive experiment has shown that, without strict segregation and streaming (which Labour also opposes), everyone goes at the speed of the slowest, with the best dragged down by the worst.

Besides which, do you imagine the wealthiest people in the country wouldn't immediately game the system to ensure their kids retained an advantage? All this would mean is that areas near good schools would see massive demand for property (imagine now, but 100 times worse) that forced even the relatively comfortable middle classes out of the area. Those middle classes would then sell their houses and move to other areas, forcing out those below them on the socio-economic ladder. You would end up with a tiered system by default and those at the bottom would be worse off than ever.

At the end of the day, you can't buck the market. Where there is demand, there will be supply - by whatever means. This is something socialists have never, ever learned because they don't want to.