“That’s why on 2nd EU referendum (which I favoured) only one argument from the other side worried me.
It was that many of those voting for Brexit had seen the Leave vote as a rare victory. And if people like me took it away, it would be yet another sign that they didn’t matter.
It was that many of those voting for Brexit had seen the Leave vote as a rare victory. And if people like me took it away, it would be yet another sign that they didn’t matter.
“Now, in wake of #COVID and with Brexit looming, we may be about to prove again that they really don’t count. If you look at education in lockdown, you won’t be surprised by whose kids have fallen even further behind. Same for predicting whose jobs are going to go first.”
A germ of possibility lies in national tutoring programme announced last week to provide disadvantaged pupils with 1:1 tutoring to help them catch up.
👏 Why not make this £350M one-off perm and try to break the cycle of disadvantage and negative attitude to education?
👏 Why not make this £350M one-off perm and try to break the cycle of disadvantage and negative attitude to education?
👏 On apprenticeships, why not subsidise the pay for apprentices from poorer backgrounds?
👏 At a local level why not provide significant financial help for councils attempting to build the social capital — bolster the dignity, if you like — of the left behind.
👏 At a local level why not provide significant financial help for councils attempting to build the social capital — bolster the dignity, if you like — of the left behind.
“It will cost us.
✅ But as a society we need to demand for our less well-off members what middle-class voters are adept at demanding for themselves. Black Lives Matter indeed. And Poor Lives Matter too. In Burnley and everywhere else.”
✅ But as a society we need to demand for our less well-off members what middle-class voters are adept at demanding for themselves. Black Lives Matter indeed. And Poor Lives Matter too. In Burnley and everywhere else.”
