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Three quarters of pensioners own their own home.

The same can not be said about working people.

Working people's wages should go to themselves first, before it goes to anyone else.

Working people should not be worse off than those who are not working.

I’m genuinely amazed people who have worked 40 plus years have paid off their mortgage whereas people who have been in the world of work a few years haven’t 😂😂😂😂

Taz, this site is full of greedy entitled arseholes. Instead of going out and working to better tyhemselves they just constantly whine about people who have spent 50 years grafting to get themselves a few bob. It is no wonder the country is so f**ed if this is representative of the public. Want everything for nothing.

The Farage claims of all the teachers are indoctorinating our kids and are activists again seems very MAGA and "Online" where the likes of "Libs of TikTok" social media accounts bang on constantly about it.

I don't have kids, but I don't get that the "reds under the beds" scare is something that is part of the UK political discussion around education. Rather behaviour, slipping standards, kids effected by COVID lockdown still not ready to learn are the things that my friends who do have kids bang on about.

It was the sort of thing the Tories used to go on about in the 1970s IIRC. Always been there bobbing around in the stream of discourse, albeiot sometimes mostly submerged.

Gove (or Cummings/Gove) and the blob ring any bells?

That's not quite the same claim. Their criticism was the "blob" stopped innovation and reform and teacher didn't want to change the way they did things. Farage is claiming something different, something very US centric about the Marxists and the trans teachers are indoctrinating the kids. That is straight Libs of TikTok type stuff.

Michael Gove did try to rewrite the history syllabus out of those concerns.

That is a fair point to an extent, but I don't think he was directly accusing all the teachers of being activists, rather he took umbrage with the way the narrative of history was being set out by those who wrote the curriculum. Bridget Phillipson has muttered about the same from the other end of the telescope, haven't followed if she has pulled the trigger on it.

It seems with Gove, the I know history better and what is being taught is missing a load of important stuff I like.

Gove, like so many of us pontificating on education, was just remembering his own schooldays. He liked history and was no good at sport so was happily selling off playing fields. What I will say for Michael Gove is that he did support a liberal arts education as a good thing in itself.