'You're FUMING this morning' - Emma Woolf RAILS against the NHS and Labour's private school tax raid

The NHS mental health director needs therapy asap

LABOUR IS WORSE THAN THE TORIES AND THEY WAS BAD ENOUGH 👎

I went to private school because i was orphaned and an NGO funded it. When i left school at 15 years i was in a competition with state school pupils for an important job. I was way ahead of them in education. Served me well all my life.

I know a lad who moved from private to state at 11.Three + years ahead of local kids, did not one bit of work for three years, 9A* at GCSE and 3A* at A level. All the credit to the prep school. (And before anyone says anything, the prep school had decrepid buildings and did not waste money on silly ideas and excess letters to parents about sun-cream, blah, blah)

Despite successive governments singing the praises of the NHS as being world beating I actually think it's pretty poor. I hope if I have to go into hospital with a life or death illness I don't get some third world doctor with poor training looking after me.

If you can't afford to have more than 2 children. No one should expect the rest of us to pay for them. This tory policy was bang on. You don't punish the kids. You discourage the parents from doing it. The last labour government, which was 14 years ago, was paying some people £40k plus on benefits to look after their 10 kids. With no parent working. Who in their right minds think that was right, and what would that figure be in the present day.

If ever there was a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face it has to be slamming a 20% tax on private schools. By choosing private education parents are saving the state (us taxpayers) the cost of educating their children. A 20% tax will, exactly as Labour intends, cause many parents to abandon private schools, so overall the cost of educating kids in state schools will rise. Many private schools will even have to close, putting all their staff out of work. And don't be naive enough to believe that most of the unemployed teachers will end up in hell-hole state schools. Many won't want to, and often the schools won't want those who aren't used to the zoo-keeping needed in so many state schools.

the war on energy drinks is as daft as it gets, ive seen no energy products advertised for weight loss and yet drinks like Diet Coke get a free pass dispite having a greater negative impact through artificial sweeteners that have nasty side effects in some people

STARMERGEDDON IN ACTION!

Not everyone that goes to private school has wealthy parents .Also private schools have 20% on bursary’s. State schools are not coping now so what the heck are they going to do with all the extra pupils and will they be able to integrate those children into not primarily by age but ability.

there should not be any child benefit, you have children by choice so why should I pay extra taxes because people have children?

Put 40 kids in a room with a "teacher" some of whom are barely out of training, who gets paid by the state regardless of results and what do you get? State education, with a side salad of LGBTQ+ indoctrination. Now put 25 kids in a room with a time served Teacher often with masters degrees who GETS PAID BY THE PARENTS WHO EXPECT RESULTS FOR THIER MONEY and what do you get? Better educated kids. It's that simple.

How about they dont send money to Ukraine.

This will backfire when you get the less wealthy private schools turning back into state schools. Its a rarity but you have examples like Kings in Tynemouth where this has already happened. The local authority then has to find a load more money to pay for the school. It also fails to recognise that many people who send their kids to private schools are not super wealthy but rather choose to spend their money education rather than for example holidays.

Bye bye private school bursary places.

Good to see the labour party waking up the sleeping public already 😊👍

This will put a strain on normal schools, bigger classes etc etc

Everything in the Labour manifesto was "fully costed", as we were repeatedly told before the election....haven't heard the words "fully costed" since from Labour.

This isnt going to go how labour thinks its going to go.

Class numbers are already too high to meet the needs of every child ,children are individuals you can't group them all into the same level at the same age there already failing in the the children in the state education system the only way the states can afford to run the academy's is to employ inexperienced teachers or supply teachers. Someone taking their exams doesn't need an English teacher taking them for A level science that what's happening just like the NHS where 1 qualified nurse and several care givers can be classed as a fully staffed ward on paper ".labours own words our school leavers haven't got the skills our country needs" says it all about how state education is failing adding further numbers to already large classes isn't helping the children .it won't push the privately schooled children further it will hold them back.