Disagree, but I would say that, wouldn't I? State schools generally do pretty well on somewhere between a third and a half of the rations that the private sector takes. If you want to look for flabby… (View Post)
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)