Sarita's Story

In this episode of Blocked Britain, we meet Sarita, a 24-year-old graduate from Vauxhall and Camberwell Green who wanted to become a teacher in London's schools. Despite critical teacher shortages across the capital, the Department for Education reduced training bursaries for her subject area. Treasury spending rules forced education departments to compete for fixed pots of funding, as though the government that creates the pound must first find it somewhere else. The classrooms were there, qualified graduates like Sarita were ready to teach, but Westminster chose not to connect them. A story of political choices presented as economic necessity. Disclosure: Blocked Britain operates under Modern Monetary Theory principles, which hold that currency-issuing governments face resource constraints, not financial ones.