This is nothing more than yet another Culture War front.

They know this plays well to older voters. There's a poll by YG tonight saying over 65s support this policy by 82-5.

That's why they are doing it. They know they have zero chance of implementing it, but it's yet another attempt to feed ignorant prejudice and try to stop old voters going to Reform.

That's all you'll get from the Tories for the rest of this campaign. They aren't fighting to win votes off Labour or to tempt young voters, or even to propose anything remotely sensible for the good of the country. They are just desperately trying to fight off Farage.

f**king reprehensible from a party that, whether you agreed with it or not, used to have a philosophy about what sort of policies were best for the country.

The 77 are all tory nr

How many Labour MPs have been stood down by the Labour central office, and even against the local party members wishes? And what is the connection between them?

And that development of critical analysis capability is not required in the low life proles by our rulers. Give them training, not education. Cogs in the machine.

RD

The key thing though is the higher education route develops analytical skills and on. It' develops an individual more than An apprenticeship which simply trains you to do a job.

This, 100%. That's what a university degree does. It expands your intellectual capability and extends your ability to think. It does so in a way that is structured and often so effective that many of those who experience it think it has been just a natural process that they could have acquired anyway.

Even courses that don't equip graduates with hard marketable skills develop in them the ability to consider arguments, marshall facts, and form rational conclusions. We'll need far more people with those abilities as this century rolls on.

Was that the gay bar in Bowers Fold?

BobG