Don't have those figures, but I can tell you: In the top ten percent of families by income, about half of children go to private schools. (That's a family income of about 200k gross.) That falls to a… (View Post)
Not what happened in '97. Conservatives down 4.5 million votes Labour up 2 million votes Lib Dems down 3/4 million votes The big change was Conservative voters deciding to stay at home. There was an … (View Post)
Social care. Really. Councils have the last-resort responsibility for it, and providing care for a small number of individuals is hideously expensive. (View Post)
If the alternative is not having enough train drivers, isn't that just things costing what they cost? There's a famous Conservative Prime Minister who had something to say about trying to buck the ma… (View Post)
And that's symptomatic of a wider issue. We've gone well past the point of unions holding the public sector to ransom. It's that individual workers are voting with their feet and deciding that they w… (View Post)