Cooking The Education Books

It is really quite shocking that in boasting about the level of spending on  education in England, the government used figures which included private school fees paid by parents, out of their own pockets, to independent schools, as well as tuition fees paid by students to universities. When it did so it was rebutting claims by Head Teachers of state funded schools that they were bending under the weight of austerity and cuts.  Clearly it deliberately used a figure which did not relate to the issue, which is funding cuts to state schools and rising student numbers.

In most walks of life connected to business and the professions, lying to achieve advantage through false claims is a criminal offence. It is time the sanction is extended to politics. Lying governments are an unsavory deviation from democratic standards which this country, above almost all others, claims to uphold.