Has
@icowden been round to whinge about VAT on private school fees yet?
Sorry, I've been away narrowboating. TBH it doesn't affect me as my kids will have finished school if Starmer even succeeds in getting it through Parliament. I'll just enjoy the look on his face when the number of people suing the LEA for failing to provide suitable places for children with additional needs goes through the roof and the state sector goes into overdrive due to the lack of places for all of the children currently using private school as specialist provision.
It's not whinging - it's pointing out that not every child in a private school has parents who are Oligarchs or friends of Tory MPs. Labour usually fails to recognise that there is a bottom 15% or so of families who are paying or getting scholarships / bursaries etc because states schools do not have suitable provision for their children. The rich parents won't give a shoot about paying VAT, so pretending it's removing a tax break for the rich is largely bollocks.
I've stated before that if Labour really wanted to do away with private schools the route is massive investment in state schools - reducing class sizes and improving facilities.
Anyway, we've pretty much done this to death in the education thread.
