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30% of British parents going without food or heating to afford their childrens' school uniforms. (www.msn.com)

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[–] Global_Liberty@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Classist schools are forcing families to go hungry for uniforms while billionaires get tax breaks.

Why do the poor keep falling for culture war/anti-immigrant bullshit and not vote in their self-interest against the wealthy establishment? Brexit alone has dropped the UK to below Italy levels of GDP per capita (ppp adj.) with the only benefits accruing to financiers.

Yet I know the poor will vote Reform instead, enjoy the brutalization of Brown people who are in the same economic boat they are, cut taxes for the rich, and let their hatred keep them warm as they starve in the cold as food and heating prices soar.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why do the poor keep falling for culture war/anti-immigrant bullshit and not vote in their self-interest against the wealthy establishment?

A large group don't vote at all (turnout in 2024 was 59.7%) because they're disillusioned with the system and think that there's no point in engaging electorally. Looking at their choices then (Kid Starver vs Tory Ghoul) it's not hard to imagine why. Actually popular candidates with grassroots support either aren't in the two-party duopoly and so are largely irrelevant due to how FPTP works, or are, like Corbyn, sidelined and purged. This is because the primary goal of the bourgeois parties is to funnel money and power to the bourgeoisie, and they'd much rather lose than accidentally do good things due to someone engaging in successful entryism.

The reactionaries are the way they are because essentially all media is constantly telling them to be more racist/transphobic etc. The left can't beat the right's multibillion pound propaganda network.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yep. My landlady is struggling but says she's voting reform.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anything a school requires pupils to have, including both supplies and uniforms, the school should be required to provide. While there may need to be systems in place to discourage waste and abuse of supplies, as long as the students are treating their equipment with due respect and care, it should be provided by the institution, not the families.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Totally agree. Or the government should have to give each family remuneration for it.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Indeed. This is a very simple system and a good use of state power. The state pays the families of schoolchildren back for the cost of school supplies and uniforms, and the state and the schools work out who actually pays for what on the back end and the kids and their parents don't have to deal with it. I like it.

[–] SnuggleButt@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Damn Linda got one helluva photoshoot