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@KevinMerce71290

Believe in the power of education and scientific endeavour. Left leaning and back social justice. Business owner. Disability advocate. Everton STH.

Beigetreten Ağustos 2023
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@diana_kane84719 @jowilliams293 I think you've just described the trading conditions of every other business. This is my point, they are businesses. Also my kids have passed/passing through 3 privates schools in our area, from pre prep to year 11, and none are close to closing. 🤷‍♀️
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Diana Kane@diana_kane84719·
@KevinMerce71290 @jowilliams293 Teachers salaries, NICs increase, minimum wage, charitable status gone, business rates, energy bills, food inflation. A whole raft of problems only the well endowed schools can survive.
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Joanna Williams@jowilliams293·
Adding VAT onto private school fees looks to be one of the worst education policy decisions of recent decades. Forced closure of good schools, disrupted children's education, and likely to cost taxpayers more than will ever be recuperated. Terrible.
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@AdamJ10812 @alexhrbfc @jowilliams293 My point is the schools cried "think of the parents and we might go bust over VAT". They sent us all pre written letters to send to our MP. Yet said nothing as they raised our fees in the years before. 🤷‍♀️
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@Sum1st @jowilliams293 Nope, and I never said in one go, I said over the preceding 3 years. Also no idea what your last sentence is about???
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Sum1st@Sum1st·
@KevinMerce71290 @jowilliams293 Made up. No private school has put up fees by 20% in one go. Costs rose post pandemic due to energy costs, wage bills etc and because parents fund it the fees had to go up. 20% on top of the already high fees was to push the middle class out into a more controlled state Ed
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@NormanLeedsFRSA @Katie_Lam_MP I don't agree with your thesis but it you accept it, you could argue that we had a government for 15 years with an entire rationale to loot every service and create savings to dole out in tax breaks to client groups - wealthy people, in order to win votes. 🤷‍♀️
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Norman Leeds@NormanLeedsFRSA·
@Katie_Lam_MP The current government's entire rationale is to loot the nation and to loot every citizen who has an income or savings, in order to dole out the money to its client groups - welfare claimants, migrants both legal and illegal - and to foreigners. It thinks it can win votes.
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@donnylives @jowilliams293 Well I guess we differ in our views. Good is subjective in the private sector. Would you call a business or community enterprise that went bankrupt good and well run? Because ultimately that is what private schools are.
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Nigel Calvert.@donnylives·
@KevinMerce71290 @jowilliams293 I think that's a different point to what the lady was saying, she just mentions good schools closing, not swathes of schools, and doesn't mention schools that had imposed their own fee rises. You've gone off on a tangent.
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@donnylives @jowilliams293 I think I've addressed the fact that schools are not closing in swathes because of VAT as they have been happy to impose similar rises on parents themselves and still remain open. The year on year figures also don't show any significant changes.
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@Bajones06427851 @jowilliams293 Well I didn't see it like that. I saw no change in the services my child got. In fact the biggest change was charging us individually for each GCSE entry, another hidden cost....and also changes come hard and fast as they rose in big chunks over a couple of summers.
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nanny mary@Bajones06427851·
@KevinMerce71290 @jowilliams293 20% over 3 years when the money benefits the school and your children is different to 20% over night that goes straight to the government.
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@kitkilgour @jowilliams293 They are on paper but they not ran for the good of anyone except their paying customers just like any business. So do we/did we value their service? Yes. But we payed for that. They shouldn't be exempt from VAT on the charity card.
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@danielmgmoylan Of course it is! The queues are for non EU citizens. We left, just like you wanted.
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@RobKenyonReform And Labour runs the country. So change Labour, change the country for all of us. All you will do is end SEND provision and close care homes in the Northwest.
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@TiceRichard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@Nigel_Farage Imagine the self importance. Sounds like the orange blob!
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Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage·
Abolish the BBC licence fee.
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@ammejo1 @SophieP25397 I don't like hate of any group, and I don't blame others for my own situation. So I'll step out of this one thanks, and if that appears closed minded I'll take it.
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SophieSpring97@SophieP25397·
He's been charged with murder and GBH with intent Tell me again that the flags are just about patriotism
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@ammejo1 @SophieP25397 I've read things from the account before where she advocates arming yourself. No thanks.
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@ammejo1 @SophieP25397 I've blocked this account so I can't read it. It's from a white Nationalists account, and those extremes are just as dangerous as others.
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@ammejo1 @SophieP25397 Hateful misguided people. Exactly like other misguided people on fringes of the political spectrum. Radical Islamists are dangerous. Zionists willing to support Israel no matter what it does are dangerous. White nationalists who want to take us back of the 1930s are dangerous.
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Ammejo 🇬🇧@ammejo1·
@KevinMerce71290 @SophieP25397 Do remind me why is a teacher in hiding? Why did a kids mother have to beg for forgiveness to the muslim council for a damaged quran? Who beheaded ppl in France due to an image of Muhammad. Do remind me of all the terroist attacks by islamists Do remind me of who attacks jews
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