Lowest common denominator

I see that the Labour party is demeaning itself again by drinking from the well of the politics of envy, their recent party conference voted to abolish private schools if voted into power. Much like Brexit this is a move that's tantamount to shooting oneself in both feet and seems entirely driven by identity politics. There are currently around 610,000 children in the private system, even if it were physically possible (which it isn't) how would adding over half a million students to an already financially stressed public system help anyone? Would we see a situation where all the private land, buildings and property currently funded and owned by private organisations forcibly confiscated by the Government and handed over to the state, apparently that's their goal (good luck with that in the courts). In my view this is no different from the theft of billions from the public by greedy and reckless bankers and should be seen in the same light. Interestingly among Labour MP's nearly 20% attended private school, Diane Abbot even sent her own children to a private school, this party are a bunch of hypocrites, then again I guess under their form of socialism, some are more equal than others etc..

Removing charitable status from these organisations (i.e. treating them like businesses) would add around £700 million (Labour claim this is more) to the public purse but integrating these schools into the state system wipes this out. Adding 600,000 children into the state education system would cost around £4 billion extra and the Government would lose £5 billion in taxes paid by private schools and around 300,000 jobs. So remind me again how state school kids are going to benefit from this?

This is old Labour up to it's old 1970's tricks again, bashing millions of people who (according to their arbitrary measure) have the identity label of "the privileged class", what a complete joke. This kind of Socialism/Marxism has been tried, many times before, and has failed many times before, it leads to misery of the worst kind for millions of people. Any system that promotes "quota" over "ability" or prioritizes an arbitrary identity over the individual will fail, always has, always will. Human beings simply don't respond well to having freedoms forcibly removed, freedoms to choose how they use the assets they have to best leverage private (legal) services they believe to offer the best opportunity for themselves and their children.