One day strike yesterday by teachers demanding more funding (and a bit of corkage for themselves, natch).
Usually on UKC we get a few people complaining about strikers ruining the economy and stuff but it all seems very quiet.
Where I live it seems to be particularly bad, a woman moved here in May and has a place for her year 1 but her year 3 hasn't been able to find a place and she's applied to 10 schools (we're on the city/county boundary so lots of 'choice'). So she decided not keep applying, keep him at home and wait til September in the hope of getting either the same school as her yr1 or something at least close enough to easily manage both (otherwise you end up paying for school club, driving across the city at rush hour etc). She's not going to look for work until the situation is sorted out in September.
Our parliamentary constituency is a multi-kulti paradise, 25% not born in the UK (then add in the children who are born in the UK), the schools' EAL are mostly in a range of 30-60%, the highest, my daughter's old school is over 90% EAL.
It's also been a solidly Labour area for as long as anyone can remember and yet voted overwhelmingly for a Brexit and there's no doubt that immigration weighed heavily in the debate.
Some of the polling suggested that Remainers had an awareness of the issue but it doesn't seem to translate to anything that demonstrates an improvement in quality of life for those individuals and communities facing the most pressure. There's been a casual suggestion that we 'throw money at it', but even that is fairly uninformed. Primary schools are 210 or 420 schools, depending on the number of year classes and limited to 30 pupils a class, so if you expand a school you need to add 7 year groups, if not immediately then finally. It's just not like making more widgets.
There has been a growth in so-called Titan schools, primaries with over 800 pupils but these have a much larger catchment, so the idea of small community primary schools you can walk to gets forgotten about. Pupils tend to feel lost in large schools and it damages the community ethos. So again the QoL diminishes.
We've had over 10 years to try to sort something out, Labour and Tory administrations and yet nothing has happened. Worse still some Remainers have invoked Won't Someone Think of the Children when it's clear that no-one is thinking about these children, and when people do think of their parents, they're dismissed as bigots and their concerns dismissed as racism.
So there's no apparent appetite on UKC for support of the strike, no support for the teachers, the communities, the parents, the children but people still want to puzzle why they lost the referendum.
If you’ve got money, you vote in,” she said, with a bracing certainty. “If you haven’t got money, you vote out.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/divided-brita... 
