General Election 2024....
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C R
Über Member
I'm sure you've used Germany in the 20s and 30s before as a comparison.
I'm just worried I'll need a wheelbarrow to carry my currency after the £ tanks.
That's the kind of complacency that gave us brexit, de Pfeffel and Trump.
D
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Unlikely Starmer will be able to charge VAT on private schools, it could possibly breach ECHR rules. State education is VAT exempt
C R
Über Member
State schools don't charge for the service, but don't let facts get on the way of a rant.
multitool
Guest
Beebo
Veteran
C R
Über Member
And I doubt that the echr would get involved. For one, they don't generally address taxation policy, and two, other European countries such as Spain are also looking at VAT on private education, and there's no indication that either EU law or the ECHR would have anything to say against it.
C R
Über Member
I don't think the EU has anything to do with it, Spain has looked to charge VAT on private education, and the main reason to not do it is because it would not bring in much money, not because of EU law.
ETA
It appears that Greece charges VAT on private health and education, so no EU ban on VAT on private schools.
AuroraSaab
Squire
I'm sure you've used Germany in the 20s and 30s before as a comparison.I'm just worried I'll need a wheelbarrow to carry my currency after the £ tanks.
We inherited a stamp collection that had a lot of what are called overprinted stamps from the time of the Weimar Republic. Printed and then stamped because inflation had gone up so much by the time they reached the shops.
Cool things but not really that collectable.
multitool
Guest
Think you are probably more interested in the artifacts that came a few years later
Rusty Nails
Country Member
Not complacent at all, just not into flights of fantasy predicated on us being just one short step away from a fascist state.
We always have to be aware of the dangers of right wing populists...who are already an electoral danger in France (inside the EU!), and hopefully a term or two of a centre left government will provide the environment whereby too many people do not feel the need to turn to them here.
Your thinking seems to me the mirror image of all those right wing newspapers and TV channels that saw Corbyn as Trotsky reborn and now sees Starmer as turning the UK into a socialist state.
Whatever happens I am certain that the UK is not quite ready to turn to a Hitler like figure, and even more certain that Farage is not in that league, even if he grows a moustache.
AuroraSaab
Squire
It's you who likes blackshirts and mobs breaking up meetings.
How about you keep your personal remarks about me to the gender thread though instead of tainting this one with your vindictiveness?
How about you keep your personal remarks about me to the gender thread though instead of tainting this one with your vindictiveness?
D
Deleted member 159
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Some bloke called Pannick
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/29/labours-private-school-tax-raid-likely-illegal/
multitool
Guest
Yes, a statement he made 37 years ago.
And current expert opinion is he is absolutely wrong.
If you rely on culture war sites that aim purely to fool the gullible into clicking and linking, you'll never gain an understanding of anything
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