Ha ha, yes. Good old Toro. I don't know about unicorns, but I think university is different to school spending, because only a minority go and it costs so much. I think there's a case for people who don't go to get some sort of general grant instead. I don't know what it costs to train as a hairdresser, but it can't be anything like what a 3 year degree course costs. You can say that the hairdresser gets their training free, and a university student gets theirs, but is that really fair? How about some money being available for the hairdresser to invest in their career in some way? You could extend that in lots of ways. In terms of getting experience of work (not work experience, I mean work paid properly but which you do as "entry level" for something you're particularly interested in), it makes a lot of difference if you live in London or South Wales. How about the person from South Wales be eligible for a grant to help with London living expenses?
I don't know exactly how this would work- it probably wouldn't, I've just thought of the last bit. But you get the point, that it's possible to see unfairness in a system of free university fees. When you address that, the costs mount, and I think it's harder to afford free fees. Certainly on the sort of tax we're prepared to pay in this country. When people say Corbyn would be completely mainstream in some places, they're right in terms of how much he'd spend. What isn't clear is that he can make it work on the taxes he proposes.
In terms of Labour plans, the extra taxes from anti-avoidance/evasion are already "spent" in the budgets. It's certainly time for more co-ordination internationally. But if we drop out of the EU/EEA mainstream, it'll undermine international efforts.
I don't know exactly how this would work- it probably wouldn't, I've just thought of the last bit. But you get the point, that it's possible to see unfairness in a system of free university fees. When you address that, the costs mount, and I think it's harder to afford free fees. Certainly on the sort of tax we're prepared to pay in this country. When people say Corbyn would be completely mainstream in some places, they're right in terms of how much he'd spend. What isn't clear is that he can make it work on the taxes he proposes.
In terms of Labour plans, the extra taxes from anti-avoidance/evasion are already "spent" in the budgets. It's certainly time for more co-ordination internationally. But if we drop out of the EU/EEA mainstream, it'll undermine international efforts.
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