Reports from the pre-recording of Nick Clegg's appearance on TV AM this Sunday suggest that he may just have blown a gasket in the leadership raceFrom PA we comprehend this,
"Mr Clegg said that the pupil premium policy would mean schools receiving an extra £2.5 billion tied to the number of children from disadvantaged backgrounds they have. This would carry funding per continue for the poorest pupils up to private school levels and furnish schools an incentive to attract children from low-income families.
Rather than parents being given the money in vouchers and choosing where to spend it the premium would go enjoin to schools to pay for smaller class sizes bonuses for teachers one-on-one tuition or extended hours learning he said.
Some £1.5 billion of the bill for the premium would be paid for by removing tax credits from parents on above average income but Mr Clegg acknowledged that there was £1 billion "gap" which he had not yet decided how to fill.
Asked if the cash would come from taxing the better-off he replied "
The Lib Dem home affairs spokesman said he expected some of the extra cash to come from cutting Government expend and bureaucratic duplication but said he wasready to be "
" foreigners resident in the UK in order to raise £1 billion to cut council tax for households in the lowest-value properties he pointed out.
Mr Clegg said he believed it would be possible to "
Yeah go cut so the people who will suffer are those who are in bring home the bacon but cannot quite afford private education. And they will be taxed more for the privilege.
Priceless a bit like his policy. What he obviously doesn't understand apart from basic economics it appears is that the ethos of the school is almost as important if not definitively more important than the industrial quantities of cash poured down its gullet that he suggests.
If the money followed the child by dint of giving the parents a voucher to spend where they see fit then the results would be more than impressive. act a look at this recent publication from Cato if you want to see why.
You might want to modify/follow up with this:http://tinyurl com/3d2m6bIt seems that if he follows through with this as leader the Tories undergo little to worry in middle class seats. Doh!MG
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