Teachers are getting a 4% pay rise. We’re seeing green shoots on teacher recruitment and retention, turning the tide on year-on-year decreases. Now, we must go further and faster to deliver excellence, everywhere for every child – together

Bridget, a pay rise means nothing if the system itself is rotten. You can throw cash at teachers all day, but if they’re trapped in a curriculum written by ideologues, shamed into silence and forced to churn out kids with zero discipline, no direction and less pride in their country than their pronouns, you’re not fixing education you’re funding failure. “Excellence for every child”? Teach facts, not feelings. History without hatred. Literature with spine, not sensitivity warnings. Citizenship that actually makes kids feel proud to be British. We don’t need more “inclusive” workshops. We need literacy, discipline, grit, truth and pride. Our schools have become social labs. Children are guinea pigs for every new theory some academic with blue hair cooked up on a diversity panel. Where’s the national pride? Where’s the British canon? Where’s the classroom that says: “You come from warriors, scientists, poets, kings not colonisers and climate criminals”? Pay rises won’t fix the cultural collapse in education. A return to sanity will. If we want excellence, we need to rip out the rot. End the activist nonsense. Ban the ideological brainwashing. Teach kids to read, reason, respect their country and stand up straight in a world that wants them weak. You want excellence, Bridget? Start by firing wokeism, not funding it.

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You forgot to mention schools have to fund 25% of the pay rise from their existing budget, which follows the increase to NI which they also had to fund.

Every time I see you, I feel a wave of physical discomfort. You embody the most troubling aspects of left-wing politics.

You're a disgrace. A pitiful, spiteful, vindictive, treacherous excuse of a woman. You should not be allowed anywhere near or influencing our kids education.

When a labour MP opens their mouth you know things are about to get worse.

You're less popular with teachers than Gove, and he didn't give out pay rises.

Schools will sack teachers because they can't afford the pay rise. Didn't think about that, did you?

£22bn black hole has been sorted then? Can any maths teachers confirm how they did it?

It's not a payrise when it gets immediately cancelled out by inflation you created with overspending, green lunacy and payrises

Will you be sorting out ventilation and air quality in schools to reduce the amount of illness in schools? Illness is main reason for teacher and child absence as you know. Here’s a thread reminding you of your views when in opposition as I’m afraid you may have forgotten them.