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Originally Posted by Mr K
I'm pretty sure the VAT on private schools will have little affect. Those can that can afford it will think nothing of paying a bit more to stop their darlings mixing with the riff raff. The schools will absorb some it anyway if they want to remain competitive. Surely better to use the money to put into the state system, raise standards so there no need for private schools, other than snobbery.
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A common misconception that everyone that sends their kids to private school is loaded.
I know two sets of friends that made a choice to send their kids to a local private school, and they made sacrifices to do that. If you sent your kids to this school they were pretty much guaranteed to pass their 11+ and get into grammar school.
I chose not to do that, as our locat primary was graded as Excellent, and the local Comp was recently rebuilt had excellent facilities and achieved good results.
but what putting VAT on private schools actually does, is ensures that only the really wealthy will have the choice to send their kids to private school and those on lower incomes willing to sacrifice for their kids have had that choice taken away.
It's actually a policy I would expect from a conservative government as it only ensures and compounds the privilege of the wealthy.
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The winter fuel allowance was absurd to fund for well off pensioners, as was funding their tv licences. We can't afford it, and shouldn't have been exempt just because they probably. vote Tory.
Definitely right to keep it for the less well off on Pension credit. An effort needs to made to ensure those that qualify claim. There are billions in all unclaimed benefits folks should be getting, the DWP don't seem worried about that or make any effort to reach them.
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Just because a pensioner isn't receiving pension credit, does not mean they are well off.
If your income is higher than £218.15 a week, you don't qualify.
so if you're on a whopping £220 a week - no help with your bills, far too well off with all that cash.
Thank you Labour, the nasty party.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
£200 will barely cover 1 month in winter its not that significant. .
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why scrap it then?
That's a crazy argument anyway. It's like saying to a starving man, it's only half a sandwich why bother.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Fair enough, it's the public sector the pensioners rely on most, and their wages have decreased in real terms for over a decade. Pensioners triple lock has been at the expense of everyone else. They need to remember 'we're all in it together' as the 'great' man once said.
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That triple lock has ensured that pensioners get a whopping £11,400 a year. Just imagine how bad it would be if the triple lock wasn't in place.
The min wage on a 40hr week is £23,800.