education cuts

"THE Tory axe on school building projects will fall overwhelmingly in ­Labour seats, a Sunday Mirror probe reveals. So far, 406 of the 736 schools facing Michael Gove’s savage cuts are in Labour areas. Children in more than half of Labour’s 191 English constituencies will suffer, while just a quarter of their 297 Tory counterparts will be hit. Our review shows nearly six in 10 of schools earmarked for cuts are in Labour ­constituencies, 39 per cent are in Tory areas and 6 per cent in Lib Dem seats"

So, Sunday Mirror, this cut in spending on schools has nothing to do with the outgoing Labour government throwing cash around in Labour seats in an attempt to buy votes does it? I mean, it's not as if Gordon Brown and his cabinet spent recklessly to try to halt their rapidly evaporating popularity was it? It's interesting that you've chosen to look at the number of English constituencies affected when comparing the disparity rather than the whole area controlled by parliament as it highlights the fact that England categorically rejected the Labour party at the election. Aren't you supposed to be a left wing paper?

Looking at the figures 55%, a little over half, of the building projects that are set to be cut are in English Labour seats and 45%, a little under half, are in English coalition seats. Projects that there was no money to fund but were given the go-ahead anyway have been cut. This is a good thing not a bad thing.