It’s the worst kind of spiteful, faux class war politics that’ll raise a rounding error at best (likely cost. We are already a long way from best) and damage the education of 10000s kids. I guess they are the wrong kind of kids.
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"class war politics" what the fuck do you think the left is lmao
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 9 0 • view
I’m not sure they know tbh. Can’t agree on much between them. It’s pointless spite.
aug 30, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t particularly matter what it raises, taxation can be and is used to express public policy separately from revenue generation. Private education is a social ill. Labour used to advocate for its abolition altogether (including noted radical… Roy Hattersley) www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...
aug 30, 2025, 4:27 pm • 3 0 • view
The manifesto and all comms from the government t since are very clear their justification for it is revenue generation. It is also the reason the high court accepted as justification for it when the government were challenged. It is not a social ill. Grow up.
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I can’t emphasise enough how little I care about Kier Starmer’s manifesto and government, I am only telling you why VAT on private school fees is a good thing. Of course private schools are a social ill, especially in the UK. Why on earth should rich kids, through absolutely no merit of their own,
aug 31, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
be guaranteed a higher standard of education than normal children, whilst reproducing and entrenching the same rotten, corrupt, and nepotistic elite that dominates British society?
aug 31, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
Sounds terrible, were it true.
aug 31, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
Education is a benefit to society, which benefits from a more educated workforce. A sector that does this well for 600k kids at no cost to the state is a huge plus.
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 am • 0 0 • view
Call me a pie-in-the-sky dreamer, but I think the sector should be performing well for all kids, not just the 600k with the most affluent parents. Private education has an immense cost to the state: it siphons off teachers, resources, and parental energy that could strengthen the state system. And
aug 31, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
most importantly, as I said, it entrenches the character of existing elite institutions and provides a barrier to social mobility. The idea that a less fair, less cohesive society where privilege buys advantages that should be based on merit is a good trade off for some “savings” on fees is mad.
aug 31, 2025, 9:11 am • 1 0 • view
‘Elite Institutions’!? You confuse the whole sector of 2600 diverse, mostly small local day schools with a tiny number of elite public boarding schools and hate them because of it. The dictionary definition of bigotry.
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Read again… I’m not referring to the schools themselves as uniformly elite, I’m talking about institutions of society (parliament, business, the judiciary, etc) which at the elite level are composed wildly disproportionately of people from a privately educated background.
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Still wrong. At best based the education landscape in the 70/80s not now and even then still from a limited number of elite boarding schools. There are some incredible state schools around which are only accessible through exams and buying an expensive house. They actually cost the state money.
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, what are you suggesting is “still wrong”? It’s an objective, empirical fact that Britain’s elite draws disproportionately from the privately educated. Data from 2019 (which a few years ago obviously but not quite the 70s or 80s): www.theguardian.com/society/2019...
aug 31, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh no, the poor private school kids, they might have to go to state school like the rest of us :( :( :(
aug 30, 2025, 2:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Hang on, I've just looked through your posts and this is literally ALL you post about. Oh no, does the poor rich person not want to pay tax?
aug 30, 2025, 2:55 pm • 4 0 • view
It's clearly the most pressing political issue of the time lol
aug 30, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
12.5% of PS families are on median income and below. 1/3 on basic rate tax incomes. Vast majority of the rich use state schools. Why not raise some real money by charging them more?
aug 30, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a strange way to phrase "87.5% of private school families earn above median income", which isn't really a statistic I would rely on to argue that private school is some kind of egalitarian enterprise.
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 4 0 • view
When did I argue that? Above median does not mean rich. The vast majority of the really rich use state schools and get you to pay for their kids’ 1st class education they access through house price. PS parent is a shit proxy for rich.
aug 30, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn't use the word "rich" at all. I earn considerably over median income and I am not rich. I could not send my son Tuggy to private school even if his useless vile self deserved it. The second half of your comment appears to be talking about some other irrelevant shit that I don't care about.
aug 30, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Not interested in reasoning. Understood. Struggling to understand what your point actually was then.
aug 30, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
What reasoning? You're just making some weird argument that an unnecessary luxury shouldn't be subject to VAT because most super rich people don't use it (no citation). I bought some cheap beer today that most super rich people probably don't buy. Should that also have been VAT-exempt?
aug 30, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Data from UCL study on PS family incomes. Education is a merit good like food (zero rated), medicine, dentistry, books. More of it benefits society. It’s daft to tax it and it still is exempt unless you are 5-18.
aug 30, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't care. Private schools entrench privilege and need taxed to the hilt, preferably abolished entirely
aug 30, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Where are you finding the £16.5bn a year that will cost mate?
aug 30, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Through further taxation, you utter pub bore. Stop shagging private schools. That's all you'll get from me tonight!
aug 30, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
You’ll be paying it then. You aren’t finding £16.5bn without everyone chipping in. Not enough of other people’s money.
aug 30, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Calm down Thatcher, thought you were meant to be deid
aug 30, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m perfectly calm thanks. You are the one resorting to insult over argument. What are you taxing to fund abolition and how does it help? Stop being childish.
aug 30, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
and why don't *you* use State Schools, pray tell?
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I looked at all schools in the area, state and private. We wanted a well-rounded education for our girls with a sensible emphasis on arts and sports.
aug 30, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
And if they all did, that’s a real £16.5bn a year black hole in the economy.
aug 30, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Class war should be the primary goal of any left wing political movement, otherwise there's no point
aug 30, 2025, 4:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Stupidly adversarial approach to government if you ask me. Grow up.
aug 30, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
That's probably because you're a facile conservative or "centrist"
aug 30, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you engage with arguments, or just insult people. I did not vote conservative, or go to private school. Out of all the major parties, only Labour support it. Greens want to abolish tbf, but are economic lunatics.
aug 30, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn't say you voted Conservative, I said you are a conservative. But you're clearly so supportive of privilege that there is no point arguing with you
aug 30, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I am supportive of measures which make a positive difference. VAT ain’t that. No one is arguing state school funding shouldn’t be improved. VAT does do that (either at all or to any appreciable degree) What argument have you actually made?
aug 30, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
At this point, my argument is that you're a patronising right-wing bore and you're going on mute. Bye!
aug 30, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
That isn’t an argument it’s an insult. Please grow up.
aug 30, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view