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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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0:00.0 | Um, um, um, um. |
0:01.8 | I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. |
0:08.4 | Oh, dear. |
0:09.3 | And also, look, least surprising story of the day, right? |
0:11.8 | State schools haven't got any room for private pupils. |
0:14.2 | Do you remember the private pupils that we said would be leaving private schools because the prices were going up? |
0:18.6 | Thanks to old Rachel Thieves, Rachel from accounts, |
0:21.7 | putting up VAT for the first time on private schools. So all of those private school |
0:26.3 | pupils who can't afford to stay in private school have come into the state school system, |
0:31.0 | which we said they would. And when we said that they would overrun it and overpower it, |
0:35.0 | that's exactly what has happened, according to a front page story in The Times. It says here, state schools have got no spare spaces in some year |
0:42.7 | groups across dozens of councils, prompting fears they will struggle to cope with increased |
0:46.7 | demand due to Labor's tax rate. Well, now, Rach. Absolutely brilliant. Let's talk to Joanna Bell, |
0:52.6 | political journalist, and get her view of this rather strange world on Monday. The, what is it, the 10th of February. It's only the 10th. It's only 20 days for Donald Trump. You know, we've had nearly seven months of labor, Joanna. I mean, can't get any worse, can it? I say that every week. Oh, my God. It's absolutely horrendous. I I mean some of these text messages would make |
1:11.4 | Kanye West blush I mean really it's crazy I mean and I'm not just about you |
1:17.1 | know the contents of the text messages but how utterly stupid they are to put them |
1:22.1 | in a group chat yes but this is the thing that people I think find the most |
1:27.0 | surprising about these supposedly intelligent individuals who write things down, which, you know, we used to call it the private eye test. You know, if it's not going to look very good in private eye, don't write it down, don't send it to somebody and certainly don't put it into a general group of people where loads of people can see it. |
1:43.1 | Yeah, and people are calling for them to be prosecuted. |
1:46.0 | And Kirstarmer was the one that wanted to, or that did prosecute people for putting, you know, |
1:51.5 | things on Twitter and Facebook. |
1:53.9 | But, you know, the contents of these WhatsApp messages are, are worse than what people |
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