My other half is a deputy head teacher at a primary school. She starts work around 7.00 most days, she has to deal with teacher and TA absences, Monday night she had to attend a governor meeting, last night was school disco. Both nights she didnβt leave till after 9pm. She
usually doesnβt get time for lunch as she has to deal with naughty boys tearing chunks out of each other.
Sheβs also the SENDco, dealing with a LEA that has no money and no staff.
Sheβs had enough, canβt say I blame her.
But itβs not just teaching that is putting so much
pressure on its quality staff, itβs health, itβs policing, itβs all public sector jobs, why? Simple answer: 14 years of Tory austerity and mismanagement of the UK economy.
Cameronβs big society, Brexit, and the Tories failure to see that instead of cuts cuts cuts, they should
have invested in public services. The country would be in a much better place now. But instead we have the biggest NHS waiting lists ever, the biggest prison population ever, more food banks than ever, and the lowest staff moral ever in the public sector.
The Tories have really
fucked this country and continue to do so. Itβs always party first country last. So @RishiSunak do us all a favour and call a general election.
oh and they're expecting an ofsted anytime, just to make things easier!
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1/ Whatβs happened to the civil service, you know the guys and gals that used to work at the DVLA, at HMRC, at the local authority planning offices, at the Local Education Authority?
2/ Context on how the shortage of people doing these jobs and how that directly affects peopleβs quality of life.
DVLA & driving text examiners, waiting times to get a driving test are ridiculous, and if you fail, back to the end of the queue.
3/HMRC, Iβve been waiting for a tax refund for a couple of months now, was due to be paid mid Feb, nothing.
A1 Certificates, a certificate you have to obtain from HMRC to say that you pay NI in the UK, itβs given to the promoters of European tours so that they can show the
1/ Today I turned 58years old. 36 of those years have been under the Tory government. 62% of the time Iβve been on the planet, the UK has been being slowly dismantled by fucking idiots. Thatcher destroyed the miners, the print, and set us on the road to privatisation of the very
2/ Utilities that we already publicly owned. BT was once a leader in telecoms, renowned worldwide for innovation, now look at it, every interaction I or friends have with them is a disaster. Railways, you cannot rely on a train to actually get you somewhere on a deadline.
3/ Water, well shit in the rivers, leaks all over, floods, total lack of investment in infrastructure, Gas, blatently ripping us off, gas costs 2.7p but we pay 7.5p. Kerching! Electricity, buzzing along making huge profits for shareholders.
Education, schools falling down, no
1/ 3 years ago today, a friend sent me a link to a petition heβd seen, saying βhave you seen this?β, it was a link to a parliamentary petition I wrote about the devastating affect Brexit was going to have on music touring. At the time of my friendβs email, the petition stood at
2/ a little over 5000 signatures. Over the following few days it went viral, reaching over 286,000 signatures within about 10days. Of course the govt responded, as they have to, with what would turn out to be the broken record response that weβve had ever
3/ since. I was contacted by Gill Morris of @DevoInflect and after a long chat we setup the Carry On Touring campaign. Ian Smith @Frusion joined us shortly afterwards, and I was invited to give evidence to the parliamentary debate of the petition. Over the next 3 years we have
1/.Tory Austerity - A social engineering project the purpose of which was to take a once great country and turn it into the sick man of Europe.
Depriving local authorities of cash to point that they go bankrupt, shutting down social schemes like SureStart, a scheme aimed at
2/ helping young families get going in the right direction.
My partner is a deputy head teacher in a deprived area, a rural village with no reliable bus service. 30% of the families whose children attend the school have had cause to use social services, either drug or alcohol
3/ abuse, domestic violence, or where one or both parents are or have been in prison.
Iβm not saying that the SureStart scheme could have prevented any of that, but having support at those early years does make a difference to the wellbeing of young families.
1/ The Tory govt has lost all control of the country & are no longer fit to govern.
We see striking NHS staff, because they have been put under so much pressure by lack of funding and complete mismanagement under the Tories.
Schools have just been told that someone made a mistake
2 in the budgetary sums, so essentially the schools budgets will be cut by the cost of a teacher. These schools are massively underfunded, but not only that, the services they rely on like SEN service at the local authorities are practically non existent, community paediatricians
3/ have at least a 2 yr waiting list for initial consultation, why? Because there are only very few of them, why? Because the Tory government have failed to recruit more and there stupid Brexit forced many to leave.
The transport network, smart motorways planned so badly to save
1 / 25 As the Tories are about to start their conference, I thought Iβd give a little account from the coalface of whatβs happening in music touring since Brexit.
Read this thread or you can read it here: on our blog.bit.ly/CoT-RedTape
2/25 I recently did an EU tour with a band as an LED tech building the big screen backdrop, and the two side screens for camera relay.
The tour played 5 EU cities in arenas, and used 7 Articulated trucks full of lighting, sound and video equipment. All the equipment was rented in
3/25 from a UK equipment suppliers & staffed by mainly freelance technicians from the UK. A number of factors come into play when considering a tour like this. Even though it was fairly short, all the techs had to apply for A1 certification, which is done through HMRC, the