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@Tee_capm IMPACT player. Open the ears

Someone just said Pollock is the best player in the world 🤣 England fans are so nauseating #ENGvNZL

@pajuiken 🤡

England fans being 'Whinging South Africans' Not so nice when the shoe is on the other foot ey? 🤭 #ENGvNZL

@AndyMcDusty @WheresTommyV Laws. Not rules. 😂

@WheresTommyV To everyone who commented & genuinely tried to be informative around the rules. Thank you 🙏🏾. This is how we grow love for this great game. To all the salty England supportors not used to winning, it ain't my fault you only see the sun once a year blokes. Go eat your mushy peas.

Generational. 😇

@schneiderhome Patients are given the choice to have a surgery in a private facility or an NHS one. The cost to NHS is identical for both. Except the NHS doesn’t bear the capital costs of buying the machines and real estate to deliver an increased number of procedures and cut waiting times ✅

HOW PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SUCKS MONEY OUT OF THE NHS CASE STUDY Five private companies were paid £536m by the NHS for outsourced eye care in 23/24. Of the £536m, £68m went to private equity debts & a whopping £169m in profits. That’s 44% going to capitalists not frontline care.

@schneiderhome The rates paid to private companies for cataract surgeries are the same as those internally paid to NHS hospitals for the same treatments. Private companies build the facilities to deliver those surgeries and take the risk that there aren’t enough patients to make a return.

@Edwards72Sue @OllyMetcalfe Are you ok paying VAT on your child’s nursery fees then? And their sports clubs? University fees? VAT is not a universal tax - there have always been totally rational exemptions, including the education of our children.

@OllyMetcalfe How about you just do what you like with your money but if it is a service then you pay VAT on it?

This is total common sense. People should be incentivised to use private services in both education and health, not penalised. It is time our government rewarded self-sufficiency rather than seeking to sustain the culture of dependence in our society.

@will____iam____ @OllyMetcalfe How is not charging a tax on something unfair? Unless another group of people pay that tax for the same service. Which they didn’t.

@OllyMetcalfe They don't punish anybody they simply removed the unfair VAT exemption which was in any event irrelevant to 97% of pupils.

@A1Mhigh @OllyMetcalfe What was the tax advantage of going to private school? What tax didn’t private school parents pay which state school parents paid?

@OllyMetcalfe Technically you are not penalised for going private. A tax advantage has now been removed from going to private schools. Maybe there should be public debate no where tax advantages should apply?

@SurreyCricBlog @craigmrosie Guess you just missed the point. By your logic, you asked the government to fund the summer holiday you used to happily pay for. Get it yet?

The block hammer is out today! So many idiots! Stop drinking Latte and going on holiday in order to pay the VAT on private education. Why should I give these things up, remember I was saving the government £8000 per annum per child, I got zero help! If you can make this make sense when responding to my posts I will listen, otherwise I will just block you because you clearly cannot see the damage done to not just my children but thousands more. Not to mention the stress on parents and children but also the teachers working in these private schools. They probably chose to work in private schools so they didn't get smacked in the teeth teaching in state!

@CTWhite80 @craigmrosie VAT is not a luxury tax. Never has been.

@craigmrosie The last sentence says a lot really - if the funding received by both public and state schools was the same, maybe I’d have more sympathy, but it’s a rigged system. You clearly see private school as a luxury item -so seems reasonable to charge vat on that service to level funding

@GummuUmu @RpsAgainstTrump I guess they’ll be moving into those empty, fully-tooled factories with supply-chains already in place which are scattered all over the United States? How long do you reckon they need? two weeks? Sounds good.

@RpsAgainstTrump Well, don't be afraid. You will continue to get your BMWs, Mercedes', AUDIs etc. German car manufacturers are ready to move their factories to the US. AUDI already build a massive facility in the US and fired 2000 workers in Germany. And VW and others too

Donald Trump has announced a 25 percent tariff on imported cars and auto parts, set to take effect on April 3. In 2024, 46% of cars sold in the U.S. were imported. Industry experts estimate the tariffs could raise the price of new vehicles by $10,000 or more and throw supply chains into chaos. MAGA.

@Kiree10 @vivamjm @RuffDollyAI Was it? You did very well to hide it…

@Edcharlesworth @vivamjm @RuffDollyAI My point exactly 😁

Incredible that Brits are still having to learn this, that the ending of Freedom of Movement does actually mean the ending of Freedom of Movement. bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

@valle77a @vivamjm Yes you could. That’s not what this story is about.

@Edcharlesworth @vivamjm Before brexit, I could travel to the UK with my national id.

@Kiree10 @vivamjm @RuffDollyAI We don’t have national ID cards in the UK

@Edcharlesworth @vivamjm @RuffDollyAI Yes, they could if they if they had a valid national ID card.

@vivamjm @RuffDollyAI You’re saying that a British person could get on a plane to Greece from Stansted in 2015 without a valid passport?

@Edcharlesworth @RuffDollyAI Nope . Non Schengen Irish & Cypriots would not have this issue. Neither would these Brits have had the entry issue when non Schengen but EU citizens

@vivamjm @RuffDollyAI You’re mistaking the EU for Schengen. Easy mistake to make. And this story had nothing to do with max stay rules. They were just going to a concert.

@RuffDollyAI Yes as is our only form of ID. (EU citizens travel in & around EU without a passport) Diff is with FoM we had automatic right to enter & be there for as long as we wish to stay/work/study visa free. Now need to ask permission (with passport limits) & get a stamp to show our limit

@james_lawler1 @A_J_Snowden You shouldn’t. And you don’t.

@A_J_Snowden why should i as a tax payer subsidise rich people sending their children to private schools

⁉️ “How does putting an education tax on independent schools break down barriers to opportunity”🧐 Today I challenged the Education Secretary head on about her damaging policies ⬇️

@SquidCynical @AdamJ10812 @CharlesHThyme If it’s about universal state provision, why are private nurseries and private universities VAT exempt?

@AdamJ10812 @CharlesHThyme With regard to your opening sentence - well, obviously! That's a circular argument of no merit. Education is a merit good - which is why universal state provision is VAT-exempt. Private education is a purchased choice & thus VAT, it has been determined, should be levied.

What you're talking about would have been much better addressed through an increase in income tax, though, wouldn't it? It's almost as if they're not being honest about the real reason they're taxing independent schools...

@KeithKeith83 @1ohreally So VAT should also apply to nursery fees? universities? Local sports clubs? Funerals? Charity events? There are many worthy exemptions. Education is exempt in every developed nation except the UK and NZ (which also taxes Uni fees but provides other tax concessions to learning)

@1ohreally If you buy a service then you pay 20% vat on it. Why shouldn’t this apply to private education?

Can someone explain why private school parents are being clobbered with VAT on fees to allegedly improve state schools when 90% of households earning £120k & more use state schools?