#the torygraph

It's so disgusting that this kid is being framed as an inspiring young patriot and not the victim of right-wing brainwashing that he actually is.

“Sending 70 per cent of young people to university will be the ruin of Britain” - Michael Deacon in The Telegraph.

I personally think people like Mr Deacon, attacking young people seeking an education and creating moral panics with sensationalist rubbish, are more likely to be the ruin of Britain.

I think Mr Deacon should become an electrician, joiner, painter-decorator, or plumber, if he thinks it’s such a problem, instead of telling other people how to live their lives. Maybe he should try to make apprenticeships more attractive to young people, instead of telling them that their degrees are worthless.

Who could could have foreseen cutting off your biggest trading partner is bad for economy!

This is a hilariously bonkers claim.

Even if we take the “UK” part to mean from the act of union, is one really supposed to believe that literacy rates now are lower than in the 1700s? That in the Victorian era when children were sent down the mines or into the factories at the earliest opportunity, people were more literate than they are now?

Do people genuinely believe that children who were previously securely literate (I’m not talking about those who were just learning) have forgotten how to read or write? Indeed, to support this claim, one would assume that adults must have forgotten how to read or write, if the implication is that we are somehow less literate than we were 2-3 years ago?

I know if you’ve forgotten how to read or write, you won’t be able to respond to this post, but if you know anyone who’s forgotten how to read or write, is over the age of 6, and hasn’t suffered like, a stroke or a TBI, I know a research psychologist who would love to hear from you.