How exactly can Labour introduce a 32 hour working week, especially when productivity needs increasing?

Do we support private fire brigades or private armies? We do have private security - people should and do take control of their own affairs when the state offering is doesn't cover what is required & they can afford it.

This essentially comes down to what we think is best served via communal effort and what we understand is best served via private ownership.

Private schools are elitist.....I see the benefit of them but it's essentially a benefit for a few. I think this is a rather short sighted approach, lead by politics of envy.

Having an elite education system does give an unfair advantage to the children who get it over the children that don't, but everyone should have the right to invest in their children's future. It also arguably produces better a better educated population than the state system can afford, which does benefit the entire population.

I see some weaknesses within my own position as well.....I mean if we ban private schools we surrender a plank of meritocracy where the supposed best minds are housed and educated together (when in reality it's more often the richest)....the idea being that we have the best in the most important positions.

Private schools aren't tied to the national curriculum and are fiercely competitive in every way which helps drive up the standards of education, reducing bureaucracy and looking for better ways of doing things. State schools are essentially exam factories measure on simplistic metrics. Worryingly Labour also want to get rid of Ofsted too, thus removing competition and evaluation from the school system.
But...errrr.

Look at what the products from these schools and later universities have been doing to this country over the last fifty years.

So f**k them.

In some cases. Not all, look at all proportion of Olympic medal winners produced by private schools, the same success is reflected in other industries, you just never hear people say - Richard Branson, Private School Boy and entrepreneur, because it isn't a popular narrative unless they fail

Come swim in the pool you created.

On the subject of pools, most of these schools rent their facilities out to the public when ever they can to generate extra income, normally at a lower rate than private gyms etc could charge, thus providing facilities to the general public which wouldn't otherwise be their.

Edited by Stirlingsays (23 Sep 2019 9.58am/)

Wouldn't be against shorter working hours or 4 more bank holidays. The UK works far too hard compared to Europe, the 3 day week showed this wouldn't necessarily impact productivity. More free time could increase spending in the economy. Increased time to train and study, potentially lower unemployment, potential health benefits to the workforce.

Do we support private fire brigades or private armies?

This essentially comes down to what we think is best served via communal effort and what we understand is best served via private ownership.

Private schools are elitist.....I see the benefit of them but it's essentially a benefit for a few.

I see some weaknesses within my own position as well.....I mean if we ban private schools we surrender a plank of meritocracy where the supposed best minds are housed and educated together (when in reality it's more often the richest)....the idea being that we have the best in the most important positions.

But...errrr.

Look at what the products from these schools and later universities have been doing to this country over the last fifty years.

So f**k them.

Come swim in the pool you created.

Edited by Stirlingsays (23 Sep 2019 9.58am)