Keir Starmer sets out changes to education, health and courts in king’s speech

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Starmer “I know how to prevent Reform taking power. I’ll swing to the right!”

  Ratchet affect in real time.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and give NHS patient access PALANTIR apparently.

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• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The changes to Education are also worth watching. They are designed to remove what meagre SEN support children already get and shut down specialist provisions in favour of “mainstreaming”. They are also shutting the door on future SEN children by stopping EHCPs while promising that those currently with them will be protected. The funding for this: a one-off sum of £4 billion spread over 3 years and then… mainstream schools will have to pay for SEN out of their existing budgets.

  Let’s be honest. This is something even the Tories would have hesitated about and another example of why Labour - like all political parties in Westminster - are NOT on our side.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    SEN

    Special Educational Needs

    EHCP

    Educational Health and Care Plan

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• hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The full media briefing document has released earlier

  …gov.uk/…/The_King_s_Speech_2026_-_background_bri…

  My thoughts as follows:

  • the steel nationalisation bill could be interesting - the public interest test doesn’t seem to be limited to just steel, could be a good mechanism to forcibly nationalising water companies in the future (which can’t come soon enough)
  • it astounds me that bringing back legal aid close to what it was before the ConDem coalition gutted it is going to cost less than 200m in todays money. Fuck Osborne.
  • the energy section directly calling out how literally half of all recessions the UK has faced since 1970 have been caused by oil price shocks is great, I love Milibae so much.
  • while there is no mention of it here, i really hope the votes at 16 bill ends up including PR for English council and Westminster elections. Labour cannot let Reform take advantage of the FPTP spoiler effect at the next GE.
  • I really really hate the immigration and asylum changes, I expect these to be softened through backbench pressure

  Overall, on the surface this is still all very incremental. Now, that could well be because this would have been finalised weeks ago, and wording agreed with Brian for his little speech. Or, it could well be because that’s all we’re gonna get regardless of what Starmer says to keep his job.

  I really hope it’s the former.

  While the last session did have a variety of gaffs, mistakes, and certified fuck ups, a lot of very good shit did also get done. It’s taken 800 years to remove the aristocracy from our parliament. Workers rights have been significantly improved. As have renters. Pretty much everything Miliband has done. We are getting closer to the EU and are no longer questioning whether essential allies are friend or foe. The two child limit has been removed.

  I won’t pretend its everything I wanted, it barely scratches the surface, but its a fuck load more than I got in the preceeding 14 years, and that is worth something.

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• brewery@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Does anybody else read this as “we will continue to aim to do the things we said we’ll do, and probably should’ve done with our massive parliamentary majority, but forgot because of trying to copy reform, so let’s five the same kind of agenda where we tweak some stuff but don’t really change anything… But don’t worry, when the next speech is happening, we’ll only mention 95% of the same thjngs again…”

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• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Charlie 3 reading out Keir Starmer’s speech.

  This are so many levels of depressing undead bullshit going on here.

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