Government want to look at disability bank accounts to see what we are spending on: this is not good for us autistic.

I read that the government won't be changing the mental health act r.e sectioning autistic people... Clearly they are too busy doing sh*t like checking people's bank accounts.

We need a new government this one is useless. Feels like they are always against people who are different.

taxing non doms more would be good, it hits the globalist middle class i was on about lol no more just running off to the eu for them and ignoring their countries troubles while still negatively voting here, yeah they can be taxed 100% for all i care. 

id say landlords too but the tories have actually set out alot of things that is going to harm landlords so there is a decent push against landlords even in under the tories. but yeah there perhaps should be a residential only rule where you can only own 1 property and prove you live in it. id ban land lording myself personally.

the thing is though you use the last labour government as a example of labour... thats a very bad example as the last labour government is still accused of being a red tory party.... even kier starmer people are already calling a red tory too. this is perhaps what im on about, no matter if you get labour when you get them they will be so much alike as the tories anyway that you will all just call them red tories. but yet despite that no one votes for lib dems lol

no but it makes me more socialist than any of your remainers claimed to be and sets the class divide and the context lol

also i think theres a wage requirement for middle class, like i dunno 40k upwards?

BeckyThump said:

The general consensus is that you need to be a university educated professional who owns their own home.

I don't agree with regard to the university education.

A teacher by definition is middle class because it's a professional role. The general consensus is that you need to be a university educated professional who owns their own home.

Brexit is a big, stinking mess that I'm not going to touch with a barge pole because we definitely don't agree on it, but calling for the eradication of an entire section of society doesn't put you in the moral high ground, just to be clear.

the elites, businessmen, bankers and so on all want to force us back into the eu so they can trot around the eu making it vague as to who they owe tax to so they can essentially evade tax by the eus free movement, and also get in cheap slave labour by the eus movement and undermine working conditions and wages to make more profit.

i dunno it maybe the london middle class or something, or the higher middle class.

but yeah you see them claim to be working class themselves for political points and claim to stand with the poor to look good... but then when it comes to something like... brexit? .... oh, now were all uneducated ignorant racists who are too thick to be allowed a vote and note educated in their fancy schools? lol yeah after brexit i think the middle class should be abolished, i will never forgive them for the things they said and did and spoke down to us like all while claiming to be the good moral kind caring side.

but yeah, i know working class people who get teaching jobs. just because your a teacher doesnt make you middle class anyway so chances are you could actually still be working class... but i do understand how there is even big wealth divides in each class anyway, as i own my own flat now and just in property ownership it kinda makes me feel higher than working class because working class often cant afford to own a home and end up in rental poverty. but despite me thinking my home ownership makes me feel more middle class im still working class and it would likely require quite a bit more to be classed as middle class.... how much more i dont know... but yeah i spoke to a AI chat bot about this one time and that said yeah im just working class still but have attained decent social mobility.... it said i need a better job though and perhaps some stock investments to then be middle class lol 

ha those are identity check things.... damn, youd have thought theyd have done that when you first opened your claim, they hadnt done them so are only doing them now? this tells me that anyone could have claimed with false id or without citisenship.... thats a massive screw up admission from the system if thats what it means

Thanks BeckyThump - I pushed myself too far last time, so hopefully I won't do that again- I will walk away if I have to

Make sure you look after yourself, keep an eye on that energy and if it gets to the point where you don't have enough to live your life outside of school, then it should be school that gives way, not your life. I learnt that the hard way.

Yeah, I get it. I'm probably going to reach the same point, sooner or later, I'll just keep going until I run out of energy!

I've just left the education sector again as it just wore me down so much. Too many demands, not enough time or money.

Well, schools of course get no government funding for TAs these days, do they? Salaries are low and the demands of the job are growing. 

I've just started working in a school again after a break of 6 years, it's even worse than it was then! Teaching and support staff are constantly trying to plug holes in an increasingly leaky system. 

Now the government plans to make it illegal for teachers to strike, in effect. 

Yeah. I hope things get better! 

BeckyThump said:

There is a difference between the parties, and as a disabled bisexual woman with a mental health condition, a disabled son, a husband with mental health conditions, and friends and family who are also not generally liked by the Tories, I resent being told that they're all the same because with regards to me and mine, they absolutely aren't.

I'll drink to that.

Well said 

Amerantin (former member) said:

people who build an identity around a political party

Yes, I've voted for a range of parties over the years.

I've just started getting PIP and ESA and it's basically the same amount I was being paid as a special needs TA which is ridiculous. The teachers aren't earning anywhere near enough for what they're being asked to do, that hasn't changed since I stopped teaching 15 years ago. There's no money for schools let alone staff.

As someone who was brought up in a working class family, in a working class area, taught in deprived working class areas, but is now what would be middle class, you're way off base with my experience.

No one I know who is middle class has homes abroad, no one I know puts down the working class, and very few are doing more than the odd holiday abroad because we just can't afford it. We're not poor as the government would view it but we don't have the money for luxuries like homes abroad or globetrotting.

No one is better than anyone else, everyone has different experiences and knowledge, and brings different qualities to the table.

You appear to be conflating the middle class with the upper class, and there's a vast difference there.

I rely on universal credit because I keep getting sacked. Yesterday I received these messages in my journal.

They're not the same, just looking at the last 12 years of Tory leadership against the previous Labour governments shows that. Whilst there might not be too much difference in their agendas on paper, in practice they're very different, even with Starmer having to become more centrist.

A Labour government would spend a bit more on the NHS and schools, paid for by taxing non-doms and private schools a bit more. They would extend help with gas and electricity bills, paid for by raising a bit more from the windfall tax on oil and gas companies. They would aim to replace the House of Lords.

A Labour government would devote more of the proceeds of growth to spending on public services, whereas a Conservative government would devote more to tax cuts, and has in fact done so.

Take one less-obvious example: rough sleeping. It can never be eliminated completely, but under the last Labour government it was reduced to a minimum. Since then it has gone back up, except for two weeks in March 2020 when the pandemic prompted the authorities to clear the streets. It doesn’t take much public spending to solve rough sleeping, but it does take some, and it takes political will, which was fitful under the Tories and focused under Labour. Suella Braverman is a prime example of the Tory stance on this.

Essentially, the main differences between the Tories and Labour are how (or if for the Tories) they tackling poverty and inequality. They take very different stands on taxation and the extent to which state should intervene in the economy of the country.

They're not the same.

BeckyThump said:

Holiday homes abroad doesn't come into that, at least not for any of the many teachers, lecturers and professionals I know

Yeah, they're not the people with 2nd homes, not on their salaries! 

There's no money in Education, unless you're at the head of a Trust, or a PVC, which isn't most people.