AnnoyedfromAyr

@DeborahMeaden Respectfully, this country doesn’t need anyone to bash them - it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Not enough people paying in and too many people taking out. We are running a deficit and anyone with basic maths can see it!

Anyone on a pension needs to worry about the Welfare bashing… the fake narratives… it is included in the Welfare numbers being bandied around and I am pretty sure you consider it your right having paid in all those years..

@David__Osland Both are shameful!

If VAT on public school fees is 'class war', what's the right name for the 9% extra tax band on working-class kids who take a university degree?

@stephtaylor65 Unfortunately no money is ever set aside. Since inception the money paid in immediately gets paid out - to those already retired.

@HardyNoon @SandyofSuffolk Aye, I know. Government mismanagement as usual. Don't care how they define the pension, that's what we set aside that money for. It's not income tax, VAT, Council tax or any of the other taxes we pay. It's National Insurance.

The state pension age should revert to 65. There's a reason most people over 65 can't work full time. Cancer, heart conditions, arthritis, and many more medical conditions. Added to which, many people in their late 60s and early 70s are carers to their own elderly parents or look after grandchildren so their parents can work. Unless, of course, you're a Lord or Lady and still pretend you're going to work, while really you just doze off in the House of Lords while sponging a daily rate of a few hundred quid off the hardworking ordinary taxpayers. 🙄🤬

@stephtaylor65 @SandyofSuffolk There is no “pension fund” to manage.

@HardyNoon @SandyofSuffolk The state pension needs to be properly managed so that workers who quite understandably think the money coming out of their wages is their future pension, actually IS their future pension.

@alexhrbfc @SLK_2017 I can multi task.

@HardyNoon @SLK_2017 Shouldn't you be cheering on the Rugby team?

If anyone is wavering about charging VAT on school fees just remember Annabel Denham has to hand over 20% more of her Telegraph salary. #bbcqt

@alexhrbfc @SLK_2017 The investment isn’t until 28-29.

@UKLabour The infamous magic money tree! I bet @RachelReevesMP is sending all the bills to the Easter Bunny. Prepare yourself - voters in the U.K. aren’t going to foot the bill for your profligate spending and they will choose another party to lead the government at the next election

We will never return to austerity. Labour chooses investment not cuts to our public services.

@DavidPintoD @rachelreeves @MelJStride Liar. 🤥

Today @rachelreeves knocked it out of the park. By contrast, @MelJStride had a bit of a ‘mare. The facts: growth forecasts up for next 2 years. Inflation & borrowing down. People set to be £1,000 pa better off. Our plan is working, Mel. Next time, listen before you speak

@UKLabour Just because you “believe” it - doesn’t make it economically feasible! FFS. Working people are getting poorer….

Labour believes that being able to manage the bills, afford a home and pay for a holiday should never be too much to ask. That’s why this Labour Government stands up for working people.

@RachelReevesMP Did you ask chat GPT to write a spring statement with “Kellyanne Conways Alternative facts”?

My economic plan is the right one for Britain. 📉 Inflation falling faster than expected 💷 Borrowing forecast to be the lowest in 6 years 📈 Families £1,000+ a year better off after inflation Building a strong and secure economy and making working people better off.

@bphillipsonMP @LabourNorth Says the woman who’s ideological spite means she is unable to understand that “free” breakfasts are paid for by the taxpayer. That independent schools save the government money. That education is a merit good. She is ignorance personified.

Proud to speak at @LabourNorth conference today. The Labour government is extending freedom— from poverty, from ignorance, from fear. Week by week we are building the better Britain our children deserve.

@AdamWagner1 Lawful doesn’t mean ethical. Be careful what you fight for.

The government's decision to impose VAT on private school fees was lawful, confirms the Court of Appeal

The responses to this post yet again show how Labours plan to pit parent against parent has been a success. From the usual Tarquin and Jemima comments, to the tiny violin pictures and cries of "why should the tax payer subsidise them". Its all there from the clueless to the purely spiteful. Not once do any of these people stop and think that there are now currently several hundred young girls about to be torn from their friendship groups, teachers and other staff looking for jobs. These girls have seen their last Christmas together at school. Every single moment from now until July will be a "last" time with the teachers they enjoy, at the school they enjoy and with the friends they love. With the national average of 20% send pupils, there are now going to be around 50+ young girls with SEND requirements looking for a new school. Yet here we are with the tiny violins and spiteful comments from the terminally spiteful and prejudiced. When private school parents shouted about the injustice to send children, the tiny violins were rife. During the court case when the government even stated that it KNEW the vat policy would disproportionately affect send pupils, but they went ahead on revenue grounds, the tiny violins were out again. Now with the recent white paper detailing changes to send being examined properly (rather than swallowing the rhetoric from @bphillipsonMP ) all of a sudden state schools and parents using state send services are concerned. Another item that's flown under the radar is the proposal to link school funding to the income demographic of the pupils. So all those people that were happy to see VAT added to fees, posting tiny violins and calling the parents privileged and toffs for buying a £100k education, whilst simultaneously paying £200k more for their house so they could get into the best state catchment area, are about to see that what goes around comes around. So, back to this post from @vickygrayson_ and those quick to post the tiny violins and spiteful responses. Take a look at what this government is actually doing. Take a look at where this attack on who you perceive to be privileged is leading, and spare a moment to think about how you would feel if this was your school and your child. Because if you don't show concern for others, then don't be surprised when you are the next rung down on their privileged hit list. In the words of the manic street preachers, If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

@Itsallagame_ @DavidDavisMP @Louiseross64 All governing parties are complicit in this shambolic system. The 5.8 million students currently on plan 2 loans wield a lot of power going into the next election considering only 9.7 million voters selected Labour at the last one.

@DavidDavisMP @Louiseross64 Remind me, wasn't it the Tories who introduced the Inflation +3% Interest rate? Didn't the Tories freeze the repayment threshold numerous times? So, isn't it the Tories that created the problem? Yes, to all three!

Students and loan encumbered graduates across the country will have seen Martin Lewis clash with Kemi Badenoch on Good Morning Britain over student loans. Badenoch wants to cut interest rates. Lewis wants to raise the repayment threshold. I think we ought to go further. x.com/GMB/status/202…

@BBCPolitics 9.7 million people voted for @UKLabour in the last general election. There are 5.8 million people on plan 2 student loans. They will vote for whichever party willing to fix it. @RachelReevesMP should be transparent about how she is taking advantage of them to borrow more!

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson defends student loan change bbc.in/4rxtB4i

@Don_Limme @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP Moving overseas does not cancel your debt; you are legally required to make repayments under the same income-contingent conditions as in the UK, but managed directly through the Student Loans Company (SLC).  Many ignore this and we taxpayers end up with the bill.

@HardyNoon @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP Half of them don’t live here and don’t have to pay it back.

"So it's alright to change the terms of their loan unilaterally without consultation without pre-warning?" @vicderbyshire challenges Schools Minister Georgia Gould over the government's approach to student loan repayments. #Newsnight

@ruth_grant_tw @LBC @NickFerrariLBC Incorrect. Tony Blair introduced tuition fees in 1998. However - all governing parties are complicit in this shambolic system!

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC The coalition government- Tory and Lib Dem introduced these fees and the companies that make a huge profit from them. Funny how the media anger surfaces when we have a Labour government.

'Are you aware of the level of anger this is causing?' 'Yes.' Bridget Phillipson explains to @NickFerrariLBC why she cannot pledge to move student loan interests rates from RPI to CPI.

@rosie_wrighting As a former buyer (who should know how to read a balance sheet) @UKLabour are what is known in the fashion industry as a DOG or poor seller. I can’t wait until you can be RTV’d (returned to vendor!)

Just a reminder despite what Kemi Badenoch says she would do now, my generation isn’t struggling by accident. Tory decisions meant we’ve faced unaffordable housing, insecure renting and student loans that grow faster than we can pay them off. Young people know the Tories did this, that’s why they voted them out.