We could play "Spot the culture war"

Elegran

varian

Apparently Sunak, when proposing to restrict the number of students, was heard to say "universities are full of people who don't vote for us anyway"

Does that count as culture wars - or maybe, war on culture?

Had it occurred to him that most students (and would-be students, if he goes ahead) have parents, who then won't vote for his party either? That'll be three votes lost, two of whom may have been Tory voters until he put the kibosh on their child's tertiary education.

Short-termism again.

It's the same old same old. Don't want any state education, attack universities and use one of the ill-thought-through rants of those with little or no knowledge in this area. It could have been a positive message, but that doesn't garner votes.

Under this government, the promise was to ramp up the inspection of University courses in 2021. Just like so much promised by them, money will have been spent, but nothing has ever happened.

So how about the "positives" for in-work training. Why isn't it working as well as we would want? Here we find another deliberate underfunding as we now have in health, dentistry, care, education, etc., etc. Anything we once believed helped everyone in the long run is now discarded with attacks on those who would have made use of them.

Heaven help young people.

The right-wing media, when they can no longer defend the indefensible, resort to pointing the finger of blame at others, and when that no longer works encourage their readers to believe that "they're all just as bad as each other"

In the last eight years we have seen the damage that has been done by an unrestrained right wing government - a circus of chaos, gross incompetence mired in corruption.

No-one should cynically accept that any other party could be anything like as bad.

It does seem as if he is preparing another Hate Fest. It also appears, sadly, that this is the only thing the far-right extremists are good at and, of course, it attracts both right and left political authoritarians.

If you are trying to attract votes it has to be the easiest way. No need to recognise political plurality, the coexistence of different interests or the actual diversity within our nation. These people just don't do "difficult". When they see it they just charge at it with the "we are right, therefore you are wrong" mantra and so many are prepared to close down logic and join them.

varian

Apparently Sunak, when proposing to restrict the number of students, was heard to say "universities are full of people who don't vote for us anyway"

Does that count as culture wars - or maybe, war on culture?

Had it occurred to him that most students (and would-be students, if he goes ahead) have parents, who then won't vote for his party either? That'll be three votes lost, two of whom may have been Tory voters until he put the kibosh on their child's tertiary education.

Short-termism again.

Apparently Sunak, when proposing to restrict the number of students, was heard to say "universities are full of people who don't vote for us anyway"

Does that count as culture wars - or maybe, war on culture?

Yesterdays Times headlines “Sunak’s plan to divide and rule”

This from a prime Minister who is supposed to govern for the good of ALL the country.