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Threat to our schools
• THESE days Islington politics is increasingly a fight between the Labour and Conservative parties, and so I think residents have a right to know what the Tories are planning for our schools.
A few months ago, the Tories pledged to ditch the Building Schools for the Future scheme, where the Labour government has given more than £100million to rebuild Islington’s secondary schools.
Now the Tories have admitted they are going to slash the education budget by 10 per cent. Perhaps local Tories could tell us how many Islington teachers they will cut to pay for this?
My mother taught in a big secondary school under the last Tory government and vividly remembers leaking classrooms, out-of-date equipment and a ban on buying new books for the library – all problems solved by this Labour government. If the Tories win the next election, I fear we will be heading back to bigger classes being taught in worse buildings with worse equipment.
CLLR RICHARD WATTS
Islington Labour spokesman for children
• I WAS shocked to see that the Conservatives had selected a parliamentary candidate who lives in leafy Kensington to represent us in Islington.
Now, to top it all, they are so desperate for candidates they have had to resort to putting adverts in local papers. The fact that they came fourth in the last set of elections has clearly hit home.
They know they have so little chance of getting votes they can’t even find a local resident to represent them.
HELEN WALSH
Caledonian Road, N1
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