General British politics discussion thread

Enzokk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441465#Comment_122441465

Average fees for private day schools is £18K, average UK salary before tax is £35K. Do you really think 2 people with 2 children earning the average wage can send their kids to private school? If you are sending your child to a boarding school the average cost is £42k per year. That is more than the average wage before tax. Private schools are the playground for the rich and only the well off will want to keep it that way.

No amount of trying to gaslight people that they can also afford it if they just didn't spend so much on "luxuries" will make that reality go away. Your post itself hints at that point - "are they, or do they just have different priorities to some people?".

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441278#Comment_122441278

I don't know how he has so many followers when he has shown again and again that he is nothing short of a bully and a coward. But grifters will grift and if his followers are stupid enough to let him keep his lifestyle while they are miserable then there is nothing you can really do to help them.

I see the financial picture for the UK is about as bad as you can get. I don't know how the Tories are going to be a viable opposition. They have been so reckless with the economy it is almost criminal. How could Sunak and Hunt and the party stand there and tell people they were going to cut taxes? If they still have a reputation for anything other than ruining the economy for the next 10 years then the UK is truly lost. This is not the GFC, this was self inflicted harm and I hope it is called out again and again whenever a Conservative MP makes any noise about anything.

Randycove

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441767#Comment_122441767

obviously fees in Ireland are a lot lower because they are subsidised, but we made sacrifices so our daughter could go to a private school and there is nothing to suggest that people in the uk don’t do the same. There are also the scholarships and bursaries that this would be the death of as well.

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441775#Comment_122441775

There are also the scholarships and bursaries that this would be the death of as well.

This has been mentioned multiple times with zero evidence. The schools are not losing their "not for profit" status and there is no reason to think the bursaries won't continue to exist.

No one below about the 95th percentile of income in the UK can even afford to send their kid to private school. The idea that it is working class people scrimping and saving to do so is farcical.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441775#Comment_122441775

No wonder your a Tory if you believe in all that "sacrifices" bullsht.