Abi Wilkinson 🎈Verified account

Coming from a more class privileged background does bring all kind of advantages. But taxing people according to income still most makes :/

cope with the 9% repayments, financially speaking, unless their parents are rich enough to help out. Maybe not true if parents teachers etc

Widening participation is really important. Also importance to recognise someone from a MC background isn't necessarily any more able to

Graduates don't start repaying debt unless earn over £17,775k (or I think £21k if they graduated in past few yrs)

Tuition fees included in that £57k debt, which is a figure for students from lowest income backgrounds whose parents aren't expected to help

Reason it's possible to make this mistake b/c we mix up low income graduates & students from low income backgroundshttps://twitter.com/simonjhix/status/882477785079586816 …

If only there were some proxy for income other than ages...like maybe income?https://twitter.com/johnrentoul/status/882173188351729665 …

also FT responses from @MichaelOrton9 @janemansour @Deven_Ghelani Join us all to talk about how we build #goodsociety & address #ukpoverty

I really love this tweethttps://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/882263380278616064 …

UBER driver aggressive with my 16 yr old daughter. Uber's response? She shouldn't have travelled alone. So young women - don't use UBER.

what if everyone in the workforce has to complete an obstacle course and then tax brackets are allocated based on your finish time?

What's so hard about just taxing people based on their ability to pay – so earnings and wealth? We really don't need to overcomplicate this

So it's vaguely like it, but actually not really like it at all

(This is vaguely like argument I've been trying to make on tuition fees except I'm advocating equalising not randomly penalising over 30s)

So putting it up just when many people are likely to be thinking about starting a family, grand.https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/882173188351729665 …

I'm probably going to keep tweeting these same facts on a weekly basis forever, sorry.

NRS social grades really are also inadequate. Call centre worker on £9/hour is C1 so MC, but a self-employed plumber on £40k is C2 so WC

Labour overwhelmingly won with younger C2DE people, particularly DE. Two main weaknesses: - older people - 34-54 C2s (skilled manual)