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After years and years of the Tories not spending much money on education, violent crime rates rose.
I'm not talking about the present day either. This is history repeating itself.
In 1995 there were nearly 4 million instances of violent crimes, which was about double what it had been in 1983.
Education spending was £45 billion in 1983 and by 1995 it has risen to £57.5 billion. As a percentage of share of national income this was down from 5% to 4.7% where it had been 5.9% in the 1970s and would be 5.9% when Labour left office.
When Labour got into office education spending went up and violent crime went down. Yes, there was a spike which reached its peak in 1995 and got down by to normal levels, but violent crime continued to fall even into the Tories' time in office.
But cuts in education take a long time to have an impact. A child who doesn't get a good education from the age of 6, will probably not be committing too many violent crimes for 8 to 10 years, maybe more. For those older maybe this time will be reduced.
We're 8 years into the Tories' time in office and the cuts have had their impact.
The attacks in London are from teens. A 15 and a 16 year old arrested for an acid attack. These kids would have been 7 and 8 when the Tories took over.
This is not to say this is the only thing to have an impact. Police officer numbers have been dwindling.
The UK is like a married person who has let themselves go. The Tories think they can keep doing these cuts and it's fine, because they ride the effort that was done before, but it always catches it with them.
It happened in the 1990s, it's happening again.
file:///home/tomb/Downloads/SN02615.pdf
Education spending - Institute For Fiscal Studies - IFS
I'm not talking about the present day either. This is history repeating itself.
In 1995 there were nearly 4 million instances of violent crimes, which was about double what it had been in 1983.
Education spending was £45 billion in 1983 and by 1995 it has risen to £57.5 billion. As a percentage of share of national income this was down from 5% to 4.7% where it had been 5.9% in the 1970s and would be 5.9% when Labour left office.
When Labour got into office education spending went up and violent crime went down. Yes, there was a spike which reached its peak in 1995 and got down by to normal levels, but violent crime continued to fall even into the Tories' time in office.
But cuts in education take a long time to have an impact. A child who doesn't get a good education from the age of 6, will probably not be committing too many violent crimes for 8 to 10 years, maybe more. For those older maybe this time will be reduced.
We're 8 years into the Tories' time in office and the cuts have had their impact.
The attacks in London are from teens. A 15 and a 16 year old arrested for an acid attack. These kids would have been 7 and 8 when the Tories took over.
This is not to say this is the only thing to have an impact. Police officer numbers have been dwindling.
The UK is like a married person who has let themselves go. The Tories think they can keep doing these cuts and it's fine, because they ride the effort that was done before, but it always catches it with them.
It happened in the 1990s, it's happening again.
file:///home/tomb/Downloads/SN02615.pdf
Education spending - Institute For Fiscal Studies - IFS
