FORGET about Brexit when voting in the General Election - neither side will change the other’s mind now, so what’s the point?

Instead think about this for a minute: before this election campaign began some schools were beginning to warn that they were going to have to start dropping courses or even running a four-day week due to a lack of funding.

A lack of funding - in the UK.

We’re the sixth-biggest economy in the world. Where has all the money gone?

I have no idea, but the Tories’ claims that Labour ‘can’t be trusted to run a bath’ are laughable - how can one of the richest countries in the world be on the verge of having a part-time state-school system?

The Conservatives, when asked about this, reply that school funding has never been higher.

True, perhaps, but only in absolute terms – it’s a bit like saying that we only spent £1,000 nationwide on education in 1910, so look at us now. Er, yes… but prices have gone up since then, haven’t they?

Do they think people are that stupid?

Anyway, according to the National Audit Office, schools are facing an eight per cent real-terms cut in funding by 2020 compared to what it was in 2015.

I’m no great fan of Jeremy Corbyn, but surely the country couldn’t be run any more incompetently under Labour than it already is?

At least Labour would attempt to keep the schools open, one would imagine.

David Gould Cheshire