How #austerity (and #ideology) broke #Britain
This endless week of #CrumblingSchools, #PrisonCuts and collapsing #CouncilFinances has been 13 years in the making – and even loyal #Tories now know the game is up
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/10/how-austerity-and-ideology-broke-britain
#ToryPoliciesInAction
#torypoliciesinaction #tories #councilfinances #prisoncuts #crumblingschools #britain #ideology #austerity
"No, we don't have Active Shooter Drills in England, we have Active Ceiling Collapse drills."
"Oh? How does that go?"
"Just the same, all the children get under their desks."
"And that's enough to save their lives?"
"Well no, but something must be done, and this is something."
#Sunak refused to fully fund repairs of #England’s #CrumblingSchools, says ex-official
#PM shown evidence of ‘#CriticalRiskToLife’ when chancellor, says former top civil servant at Department for #Education
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/04/england-crumbling-schools-rishi-sunak-repairs-civil-servant
#ToryPoliciesInAction #MoneyBeforeSafety #MoneyBeforePeople #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #GTTO #RAAC #ConcreteCrisis
#concretecrisis #raac #gtto #toryinhumanity #ToryFailure #moneybeforepeople #moneybeforesafety #torypoliciesinaction #education #criticalrisktolife #pm #crumblingschools #england #Sunak
What Tory ministers think of your children’s safety.
A senior civil servant has said that Tory ministers and their political advisers were “dangerously complacent” about crumbling school buildings constructed with aerated concrete, and that they were more concerned with saving money than improving safety.