“The Conservatives inherited just under £10bn a year in education capital sending in 2010, and have spent £5-6bn a year since then, in real terms. Part of those savings came from scrapping the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in 2010, which aimed to rebuild and refurbish every secondary school in England.”

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    Kind of, but it’s more of a symptom, not the problem.

    The problem is the boomer “me first, me last”, selfish and greedy mind set.

    People in this country used to take pride in building infrastructure that would last well beyond their lifetimes.

    Now the mentality is “what’s the cheapest we can do this? I’m retiring in 30 years, so we’ll build it to last 30 years, lol at the pricks who are going to have to build this properly the second time round, as long as I’m under budget and getting my end of year bonus!”.

    It’d be cheaper to build it properly once, than to have to relocate all the school kids and build it again every 30 years, but that’d take some real investment and a project leader with a consideration greater than “what do ‘I’ need?”.

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      Raac building started in the 50s. So the silent generation. Boomers were children then. The broblems were not known till the 80s. So lack of boomer funding to maintain or replace it yes. But let’s be honest gen-x on (me) were really at least equally to blame.