RAAC

Laughing said:
Most tory voters dont send their kids to private school.
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Tte vast majority of MPs would have sent their kids to private school and/or had been their themselves. Conservative voters earning over £80k/year will also often send their kids there too.

The tax that the private schools avoid would have helped upgrade state schools with infrastructure problems, in the last 13 years. People with children/granchildren in state schools/colleges have suffered 13 years of cuts in real expenditure. The Government in general sees spending on state education as a expense, while they will spend £20k/year plus to send their own child to a private school that they call an investment in their future.
 
Redwurzel said:
Tte vast majority of MPs would have sent their kids to private school and/or had been their themselves. Conservative voters earning over £80k/year will also often send their kids there too.

The tax that the private schools avoid would have helped upgrade state schools with infrastructure problems, in the last 13 years. People with children/granchildren in state schools/colleges have suffered 13 years of cuts in real expenditure. The Government in general sees spending on state education as a expense, while they will spend £20k/year plus to send their own child to a private school that they call an investment in their future.
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I am not arguing that private schools get obscene treatment.

Only 5% of the uk earn more than 80k so no most tory voters don't send their kids to private schools.

This will effect the polls, which was my point, counteracted by tory voters send their kids to private schools. Most don't.
 
Now being reported there has been a rather large "kick it down the road and let the next government deal with it" cover up instigated, going back years not months.

Still, hope Keegan's (not Kev btw) £34m office refurb was worth it. And the IT contract given to a company her husband is connected to......

FFS 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
 
I think the raac problem will far bigger than first reported you just have to look at schools round the area most were built on the 50s and 60s.
 
Glover_elbow said:
I think the raac problem will far bigger than first reported you just have to look at schools round the area most were built on the 50s and 60s.
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I worked on school refurbishments from 2008-2017 for a Local Authority, and while the schools were generally in very poor condition they were structurally safe. Thankfully never worked on RAAC - assume it was a building system favoured by individual LAs / organisations?

This RAAC is not a new thing. Structural engineers have known about it for years. The DfE certainly have. It's gross incompetence for a government to stand by and allow the possibility of a roof collapsing on a school with 1200 pupils....in fact it surely borders on criminal/unlawful.

Clients / consultants / contractors have to conform fully with all H&S legislation - CDM Regs etc - why do the government get a seemingly free pass to just ignore all of this and pass the problem down the line, at present to the LAs and headteachers?

This is certainly not going away, and looking like it's becoming one of the major f*ckups of the Tories 13 year reign. Wonder who the fall guy will be?
 
It is absolute peanuts, current cost £150m and the absolute max is £1.25bn.
"The cost of fixing the school buildings crisis in England is approaching £150m and could rise much further ... Even if only a fifth of the schools so far identified as having been built with Raac were demolished and replaced, it could cost nearly £250m, construction sources indicated."
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National Highways are spending c.£150m on two A19 junctions. TfL are spending £1.2bn building a tunnel under the Thames.

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www.theguardian.com

Price of fixing school concrete crisis in England ‘approaching £150m’

Exclusive: analysis suggests bill could rise much further, with major rebuilding programme possible instead of temporary fixes
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Starmer tore Sunak apart at PMQ's today on it.

Open goal maybe, but he didn't miss.
 
h_m_boro said:
Dunno.......the regurgitated "Captain Hindsight" quip must have really stung.........😴😴😴😴
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That surely was peak cringe? If you want to use a childish epithet try to use one of your own creation rather than regurgitate the pitiful utterings of the previous discredited buffoon.
 
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