MalcSB
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Personally I think the fucking train drivers were the least deserving cause. They get paid more than BA Pilots, FFS. I suppose they are flying very low though.
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MalcSB
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The trouble is that upper middle class women tend to be more articulate than some others. Huge generalisation I know, but not an inaccurate observation.
Nick
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It's jealousy though, isn't it?
Will be interesting how much actually gets put into state education and if there is actually £1.5bn made by the time schools have back claimed and kids have moved from Private to State schools. Bursaries are going down as well as scholarships too.
"Tax Breaks" for foreigners who come here and graft and will also be paying their taxes and want the best for the kids = bad
Give foreigners everything for free who will never pay any tax = give me more
You only have to read some posts from some posters on here about the private school stuff to see they are usually misinformed and very, very jealous.
I did IT in a secondary school for a bit a few years ago. We had to pay a contractor to come in and plug a network cable in because we weren't allowed to, it cost about £300 quid a go. Then if anything was needed network wise it was much more and it was fairly straight forward everyday stuff. Imagine if money went towards the kids educations....
MalcSB
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Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes | Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)
Our report highlights failings in the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated changes to women’s State Pension age. You can read the full report here or download a PDF (1MB).
MalcSB
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As I said Nick, it’s class war and almost as bad as racism.
The outcomes will be interesting if they are ever published.
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MalcSB
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Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes | Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)
Our report highlights failings in the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated changes to women’s State Pension age. You can read the full report here or download a PDF (1MB).
Note the use of the word “failings”
Im assuming the Ombudsman is more neutral than, say, Sue Gray was when she investigated cakegate or the police when they investigated Starmer’s beer and curry party. Or Rayners housing arrangement. I would imagine being an ex DPP still carries some benefit.
Nick
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It's jealousy and I doubt many have even been in a normal private school and seen the type of kids / families there. (not talking Eton etc). They wouldn't see that a fair few of the people are the same "class" as them but just go without and prioritise that for their kids.
They have probably never tried to find a place in a state school for a kid in private schooling either when they say "just move them". I know a kid who's parents tried, they are pretty much guaranteed A*s or 8s and 9s at GCSE. Never had a detention, glowing reports every year, teachers say they were a dream, Could they get a space in a state school though? No chance, even less of a chance halfway through the year.
shmmeee
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Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes | Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)
Our report highlights failings in the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated changes to women’s State Pension age. You can read the full report here or download a PDF (1MB).www.ombudsman.org.uk
Note the use of the word “failings”
Im assuming the Ombudsman is more neutral than, say, Sue Gray was when she investigated cakegate or the police when they investigated Starmer’s beer and curry party. Or Rayners housing arrangement. I would imagine being an ex DPP still carries some benefit.
Yeah a letter was sent out late. It’s not worth £10bn of public money is it?
shmmeee
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Yeah mate the reason all the professional educators in this thread are against private schooling is lack of knowledge. Good one.
Nick
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Yeah mate the reason all the professional educators in this thread are against private schooling is lack of knowledge. Good one.
Well the irony is you are the furthest out possible when you go on about it and you were a teacher. You are saying "just move them, kids move all the time". Surely as somebody who was a teacher, you should know it's not actually that straight forward. Especially during the school year.
Maybe it's jealousy they don't work in a private school and get their kids in cheap?
Nick
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Ironically still pay their share of tax towards education as well. Baddies though.
The funny thing is that one of the real offputting things about a primary school with my daughter was when you had an immigrant family who whacked their 6 kids in, won't work a day in their lives and kids can't speak a word of English so need more resources.
Immigration isn't an issue at all, it's all those nasty people probably earning about 60k in their household and choosing to send their kid to a private school while they graft their arses off.
(Just to note, this isn't every family from a foreign country. There are also plenty where the kids grow up bi-lingual and it's amazing. A lot of the polish kids were fluent in both)
I know lots of people that send their kids to private school. It's nothing to do with jealousy.
Sounds like good old fashioned British bootlicking from your end though.
Sky Blue Pete
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The average is £25k a year
That’s not saving a few quid
MalcSB
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Obviously not in your view.
Theres probably quite a lot that’s not worth a lot less than £10 million of tax payers money. Cut the asylum seekers accommodation charges for a start. And/ or get them to do something of value, there are still lads of potholes that need dealing with. Confiscate oligarchs embargoed funds, tax Amazon et al on UK turnover.
It seems it was a failing, compensation is entirely reasonable.
Your unsympathetic witherings won’t change my mind.
MalcSB
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Yes Nick, paying twice. The bastards.
Nick
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Yeah take out the silly places like Eton and look at them then.
ie the ones in Cov you were looking at about £15k a year before the VAT.
You have a couple earning £65k between them and just shy of £13k a year of that is tax...
Sky Blue Pete
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There are people who will struggle but if it was as simple as adding £1.5bn to the cost of private education to give an extra £1.5bn to state education wouldn’t you say that’s a good thing?
MalcSB
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Sadly these things are never that straightforward.
But not on the very thing we are discussing.
Or do they only have to pay tax on some things and pay no tax on other things because...they're rich?
Nick
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You say that like it's a straight transfer.
Personally, I'd have looked more into separating out places like King Henrys and Pattison in Cov to places like Eton and Harrow. Especially when it's the places like Eton and Harrow which are now going to be claiming back the most tax for Capitol Projects
It isn't as simple as "put the prices up here, use money here". There will also be the kids moving from private to state (or trying to).
Ian1779
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Made a donation, hope everything goes OK.It’s interesting that when I have referred to oil revenues in the past I’ve been told that’s not how the market works, so I shut up about it. To have retained the gold and it now be at that value would surely have been helpful. To a certain extent the fact he sold it perhaps is something of an illustration of how bad things were globally in those days. Inherited by the coalition and leading to austerity.
We will never know what would have happened if Brown had timed the election better. We may have had 14 years of Labour austerity.
Thanks for reading the article, entitled “The worst deal in UK history?” And for pointing out my miscomprehension of it.
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Nick
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Define "rich"?
It isn't paying (well wasn't) on something, it isn't some sort of tax avoidance scheme. People are paying tax towards state education already aren't they?
I agree when it comes to huge multinational corporations who are paying very minimal tax though, where they are billionaires but paying hardly anything in tax at all.
Sky Blue Pete
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Of course
Could it be?
Nick
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Where will the thousands of kids in private schools go and will the state schools be able to make spaces for them?
Sky Blue Pete
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4800 of them?
There’s 32000 schools in the uk
Nick
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Sky Blue Pete
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You are being sarcastic aren’t you?Oh there's plenty of schools then, not to worry.
If it’s 0.1% of students looking for a space it’s 1 in every 8 schools taking on an extra pupil should be ok
Which project's are these, pretty sure thing's are vatable ?You say that like it's a straight transfer.
Personally, I'd have looked more into separating out places like King Henrys and Pattison in Cov to places like Eton and Harrow. Especially when it's the places like Eton and Harrow which are now going to be claiming back the most tax for Capitol Projects
It isn't as simple as "put the prices up here, use money here". There will also be the kids moving from private to state (or trying to).