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Ladies and gentleman….goodnight

@MAGACharlie2024 Cue a host of British passengers passing out in the Spanish heat after 18 airport pints because they can’t afford to take their jacket off. 😂

Did you catch that? The American startup Voyage Coat has unveiled a real game-changer for travelers—a jacket designed to hold your belongings so you don’t have to pay extra for checked luggage. It features more than 16 waterproof pockets of various shapes and sizes, and once you’ve landed, the jacket can be converted into a bag.

@michael_merrick Called this a few weeks back, they’ll start hitting families with higher than average incomes at state schools for fee money. It’s about to shock a lot of people what this cabal believe is “working class”

Incoming punishment tax on state schools in wealthy areas?

@paulous1975 @MrsBr0wn_82 Yea, no worries Paul. We’ll just start shipping kids all over the country. Not sure why anyone else didn’t come up with that one.

@MrsBr0wn_82 There are nearly one million unfilled school places in the UK. 65000 is manageable

🚨 Labour’s private school VAT raid is pushing over 65,000 children out of independent education 1 in 10 pupils. The Adam Smith Institute says this is 3x worse than the government predicted, with 115 schools already closed. These kids aren’t disappearing they’re flooding into already oversubscribed state schools. Bigger classes, longer waiting lists, overstretched teachers, and crumbling buildings. Standards will fall for every child. Taxpayers face an extra £500m+ bill a year, while the policy likely loses money overall. Ideological vandalism that punishes aspiration. Britain’s children deserve better. #EducationFail #StateSchoolCrisis #LabourFail #VATRaid

@elonmusk - incredible stuff 🤨

Loving SuperGrok (in the main) but please fix the issues with basic arithmetic and inability to create app notifications @elonmusk

@munirawilson No need to worry Munira, I’m sure it’s a mistake and @bphillipsonMP simply forgot the VAT money she’s got coming her way from taxing independent schools. It’s hard for the secretary to remember everything when she gets so much pleasure from private school closures.

The Government is telling schools to plug a £4.4bn hole in teacher pay with so called “efficiency savings.” That’s just cuts by another name. If ministers genuinely value teachers, they should fund pay rises properly.

Agenda driven politics that will hurt the economy long term, disrupt families of children who seek stability, inflate local schools beyond their capacity and have zero impact on HNWI, brought to you by……

Having argued with people about private schools for days now. It basically comes down to the fact that some people think it is fundamentally wrong that some people have more money, than other people.

@RixGlen83488 @casalarocaluz @cookhuntersol lol - less than 1% of the education budget each year. Just as well that wont get eaten up many times over by inflation and dwindling independent school families sending their kids to state school.

@casalarocaluz @cookhuntersol It is seemingly debatable. I suppose our personal views, in the absence of evidence, are subject to confirmation bias and the echo chamber. 🤔 x.com/i/grok/share/e…

Fact Check: A Lie. This school has been in deep financial trouble for the last 9 years. The foreign investment company who owns it decided to pull the plug, and chose to blame VAT, because it was convenient, instead of the falling standards and falling pupil numbers.

@DrNickA The current Labour zeitgeist timelines out to funded state school places being offered to the “working class” and parents with very middle incomes will need to pay to attend a failing super school. I’d wager most of the negative reply guys aren’t working class in Labours eyes.

The idea that private schools are a detriment to society seems to be the prevailing thought. But this is not true. They offer an (expensive) out to parents who only have access to bad schools. A school is where your child spends most of their waking lives until they're and adult. The state school system is failing many pupils, that's a fact and it can create a damaging environment for young children to grow up in. Parents who prioritise education should have access to a competitive market of schools as a viable alternative. Now is it fair that some people can pay for it and others cannot? It depends. Some people have put decades into building a career that pays them well. Should they not be paid for their hard work? Some are born into it sure. Is that fair? Well what's the point of working if you can't build a better life for your children. Surely, most good parents are doing that? Should children be punished for their parents success? Additionally, private schools by way of having independent autonomy over their curriculum have the potential to innovate in ways that the state schools cannot. And, we are about to enter into a world where AI is going to completely restructure the economy and our relationship with knowledge. We actually need a pedagogical revolution. We should welcome private schools, have more of them at different price points and build deeper ties with the independent schools network for practice sharing and even resource sharing. Centralising the education system creates system fragility. A concept seemingly none of the policy makers, or their supporters seem to understand.

@DavidHeadViews @MikeHanlon99 @BellaWallerstei I’m not sure you intended this, but, you’re making a very good argument for more children achieve an independent education, not less. Let’s deal with your question at the end as I’m no fan of BoJo: The VAT situation would have been a non-starter if we were still part of the EU.

@MikeHanlon99 @BellaWallerstei A very narrow interpretation. A tiny minority of pupils attend UK private schools. But they go on to occupy a very large percentage of top jobs, which might help explain why the country isn't working as well as it should. How much do you think Boris Johnson alone has cost us?

In Germany, if you send your children to private school, you can claim 30% of the tuition fees, capped at €5,000 per annum, per child as a tax deduction. Meanwhile Britain has become a country which punishes people for going private

@DrNickA Also, it wasn’t until I hit on the historical/future VAT reclaims + their funding models that I understood why so many influential independent schools weren’t doing more. They’ve got a lot to answer for here too IMO.

@DrNickA A drive to level up society by making everyone poorer.

I wrote a whole piece about the VAT schools thing and it ended with me saying some pretty mean things about Starmer. Well, him and the rest of the people responsible for it. Once again, I have written a few thousands words that I’m too scared to post.

@DrNickA (“It” being the policy, not the ASI report in their manifesto, sorry, been a long day!

@DrNickA 2) I brought the ASI report issued to HoL/HoC to my MP and she admitted she hadn’t read it but ultimately it didn’t matter because it was in the manifesto 😳

@Alan851603 @DrNickA @joemichalczuk I have to say, the ability to have a poor grasp on this situation is unfortunately common (probably an education issue). However you my friend have maybe, just maybe, the most idiotic viewpoint I’ve ever read on this topic, and I’ve heard/read a lot. Congratulations.

@DrNickA @joemichalczuk That assumes its the schools who fuck up kids and not useless overwhelmed or pushy or overambitious parents. You missed the point - I'm arguing for MORE inequality - for EVERY child to have a full range of opportunity.

Out of all the decisions this government has made, this is one of the very worst (and it’s a long list) - simply because it was made without proper due diligence and driven by the politics of envy, chasing a cheap headline. It is a bitter, spiteful policy that shows no regard for the children immediately affected - not to mention the local economies that rely on these schools: teachers, caterers, sports clubs, cleaners, maintenance - the list goes on. As predicted, schools are closing, and more pupils are being pushed into the state sector, adding pressure and cost where the system is already stretched. Private education is one of Britain’s success stories. Countries around the world try to emulate these schools or send their children to them. So of course it makes sense that this government - which seems to resent British success - would want to undermine them with the stroke of a pen. Not only that - it has made private schooling MORE elitist. Eton, Harrow, the very top end - were always going to be fine, as were the families who can afford those fees. It is the mid-tier schools - and the aspirational families who stretch to afford them - who are taking the hit. The local tradesman, the local GP - the families for whom this was a genuine choice for their children. For them, that choice is now gone. Children have been pulled out of their schools. People have lost their jobs - all for nothing. This is a government that seems to hate Britain, its culture and traditions - and is determined to crush hope and aspiration within it.

@garethj57708138 @joemichalczuk State school families don’t subsidise private schools, pre or post VAT. Ironically, it’s the other way around, so we can ease your worries there. It’s not and has never happened. Unless of course you mean private schools can now claim back £m’s of VAT from the government?

@joemichalczuk Why should ordinary working people who can’t afford to send their kids to private schools subsidise wealthy families who can’t afford????????

@GuyEmma68700 @AndyMDon @mask1 @joemichalczuk Ironically, Labour gov has used the same organisation for different types of research data. Independent reports detailing the same forecast and outcome were made available to HoL & HoC prior to implementation. All ignored.

@AndyMDon @mask1 @joemichalczuk Where are Labour's completely unbiased figures? Oh yeh there aren't any cos they refuse to monitor the impact

@BrokenSkiesPG @joemichalczuk You didn’t and don’t subsidise it. In supporting you make independent schools more exclusive. You make capital projects 20% cheaper for exclusive schools. Extra pressure on already stressed state schools, and crucially, a tax that is a net negative to you and I, the taxpayer.

@joemichalczuk One of the best things they've done. Parents can choose whatever luxury services they think, for themselves and their children. As a taxpayer though, I don't want to subsidise that decision. Like anyone else, if they can't afford that luxury, then don't pay for it