In a wide-ranging interview with the Times, Labour’s deputy leader opened up about caring for her mother, who has bipolar disorder, from the age of 10, getting pregnant at 15 and leaving school with no qualifications at 16.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP also revealed how she never received love and affection as a child and was once given dog food to eat because her mum couldn’t read the label on the tin.
She was also given ‘jelly and shaving foam’ because her mother ‘used to look on the pictures’ on products.
If she wants to be a leader she should stop banging on about it it’s getting boring .
Entire boatloads of Vietnamese came out of horrible camps and still did well at schools in countries and languages they didn’t speak
Yes, but don’t underestimate the power of peer pressure. When I started school it was in an awful area and being “clever” was no way to gain friends. Living where we did was on the border between real slum and not quite slum and my mum used to give some tuition and somehow I didn’t fall into the “be bad to be good” demograph but I saw it at work time and time again. I avoided it.
I did go to school Omah / AT
Peer pressure worked the other way too.
I was in a class of clever kids and expected to do well .
But reading and writing were not an issue with anyone everyone entered secondary education knowing how to read and write ,
I was very clever as an 11-year-old - I was one of only 20, from the thousands who took the 11-Plus the same year, to be awarded a scholarship to the local grammar (public) school …
However, some children struggled in “lower” streams and, some years earlier, would have been sent to the “Secondary Modern School” to learn a “craft”. Luckily, some “Comprehensive Schools” had been introduced, which gave “late bloomers” a second chance.
She (AR ) would look good in this outfit and put that hair behind her too .
Although those old reprobates in the HOC would probaby have heart attacks .