Maybe they should ask their customers to eat less avocado toast? Pull themselves up by their bootstraps?
Or maybe they shouldn’t use words like “discriminatory” when access to private education, dictated by wealth, is an inherently discriminatory practice, and keep themselves hidden from what they probably see as something akin to the eye of Sauron.
I think many of us who went to “free” schools would want to do away with all this private school toffery anyway. Put that money into the state school system and try and elevate it for *every* child, and not just those of the wealthy.
World’s smallest violin
Good. It’s just a “look we’re hurting the wealthy” for you peasants trick.
It raises fuck all.
Well all Labour has to do is charge VAT to parents when they pay for their kids to go to State schools. Boom. No discrimination.
Who’s Sue?
Oh look we are losing money and can’t survive with loss of VAT exemption, while spending money on lawyers to sue the government?
Poor wee souls!
They’re suing based on discrimination against disabilities. Lots of disabled kids and SEN kids go to private schools.
If a child has an EHC care plan, then this VAT change doesn’t apply.
The treasury spotted this one coming, and carved out an exemption.
This is a bad and spiteful policy which (once you include the cost of more places being required in state schools) doesn’t even raise any money.
But I am not a fan of trying to change laws through the courts. Labour have a democratic mandate for their bad and spiteful law, so the courts should have no right to reverse it.
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Maybe they should ask their customers to eat less avocado toast? Pull themselves up by their bootstraps?
Or maybe they shouldn’t use words like “discriminatory” when access to private education, dictated by wealth, is an inherently discriminatory practice, and keep themselves hidden from what they probably see as something akin to the eye of Sauron.
I think many of us who went to “free” schools would want to do away with all this private school toffery anyway. Put that money into the state school system and try and elevate it for *every* child, and not just those of the wealthy.
World’s smallest violin
Good. It’s just a “look we’re hurting the wealthy” for you peasants trick.
It raises fuck all.
Well all Labour has to do is charge VAT to parents when they pay for their kids to go to State schools. Boom. No discrimination.
Who’s Sue?
Oh look we are losing money and can’t survive with loss of VAT exemption, while spending money on lawyers to sue the government?
Poor wee souls!
They’re suing based on discrimination against disabilities. Lots of disabled kids and SEN kids go to private schools.
If a child has an EHC care plan, then this VAT change doesn’t apply.
The treasury spotted this one coming, and carved out an exemption.
This is a bad and spiteful policy which (once you include the cost of more places being required in state schools) doesn’t even raise any money.
But I am not a fan of trying to change laws through the courts. Labour have a democratic mandate for their bad and spiteful law, so the courts should have no right to reverse it.
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