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Westminster Politics 2024-2029
- Thread starter Pexbo
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I wondered if you'd taken even 5 mins to actually look at why this might be, rather than post a link for hollow laughs. Because there's actually a brewing crisis here which this is a symptom of.
There are 576,000 kids with EHCPs. Each child can get up to £6,000 in additional funding with an EHCP (you need an EHCP to get SEND funding, which Councils are legally obligated to pay for - the govt doesn't pay for it). These are expensive to fund, it goes on stuff like specialist staff, paying for extra teaching assistants etc - you can do the maths - and councils don't have enough money. Every year, more and more EHCPs have been applied for - in 2022, the number of EHCPs issued rose by 26% on the prior year. The result of this is councils now have SEND related debts of £4billion, not enough funding and rising demand.
So it's a crisis. And in that crisis councils have been trying to manage EHCPs given the demand. Which means they are trying to challenge EHCP certification, as anyone with friends with SEND-possible kids will know. That is why this money has been spent to try to manage demand. It's not right, but it's a symptom of much bigger problem that needs solving. But "warms the cockles, yeah"
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They aren't though, they are rebadged UKIP. They were polling at about 15% in 2014. I think they peaked at 27.5% in the Euro elections in 2014.
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I'm having an argument "Dumbo", well done for noticing. (And I do actually have a vested interest in this particular subject). You are however the exact person I was talking about when it came to performative caring, so I can see I got my aim right.
Just pointing out how your constant attempts to sanctimoniously chastise others for mild flippancy is hollow and performative, and seeks to disingenuously obfuscate their criticism. It's weak boy shit.
I used vote labour until 2008/7 ish - Gordon Brown was the last straw.
This is very useful context for your posts in this thread.
I was at the anti war protests is 2002/3 and I was never going to vote for them "Tories" but then the war and recession got me to thinking - there must be better and I almost forgot how bad labour are, these guys are not even in the same ball park as Blair (and I hated him).
Brown was the last straw but the last 14 years of Tory rule haven't been enough for you? What is better in this country today than it was in 2010, before they took over? Literally everything is worse.
The current version of Labour is woeful but anyone still voting Tory clearly hates Britain and wants to see it destroyed further.
Do you not remember the reason for it?
The bold part is absolute rubbish, it's like me saying because you voted Labour you hate farmers, old people, small to medium size business and Waspi women. I'm not a fan of black or white ideology, it's all grey to me.
Even the idea of identity based off any view seems weird to me, we are humans.