'RAAC scandal shows we're a broken Britain after 13 years of Tory rule'
My neighbour’s little lad started school this week and on Monday I drove him and his mum to the shops to buy some shorts.
Long flannel trousers felt too big an ask for a five-year-old in a heatwave. But as we scoured the children’s department, we realised other parents had felt the same because affordable shorts were in pretty short supply. The trip was certainly an education for me, as I haven’t looked at uniforms since shopping for my nephew’s 30 years ago.
I couldn’t get over how expensive everything was or how schools still insist on specific, branded items. But the Children’s Society says uniform costs have shot up 30% in the past three years and parents now have to fork out an average £287 on primary kit and £422 for secondary. It’s yet more stress for hard-up mums and dads weighed down by the cost-of-living crisis.
And now there’s the added fear that school classrooms might come crashing in on kids’ heads. Because our incompetent Government has ignored urgent warnings about crumbling concrete in schools and other public buildings. The RAAC scandal really is the perfect metaphor for broken Britain – evidence of the widespread structural damage wrought by 13 years of Tory rule.
They’ve wrecked the economy, shattered the NHS and failed to control illegal immigration. And now, as the ceiling and walls are falling in, this bunch of hypocritical cowboys are still trying to convince us they’re doing a “f***ing good job”, as Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was caught declaring.
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When we got home with Josh’s new shorts, he went and picked a sticker from his large and random collection to give to me as a thank-you. It’s this red “traffic sign”, and it got me thinking. The message is Do No Harm – the principle underpinning the Hippocratic Oath which doctors have been swearing since the 5th century BCE.
It’s a reminder that before you can help or heal your patient, you must take care not to make their problems WORSE. Like the Tories are doing to Broken Britain at every incompetent turn.
Perhaps it’s time all politicians started swearing a similar oath? Bring them up short and force them to consider the harm their policies may cause. Giving us more Hippocrates and less hypocrisy. I think the idea could stick.
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