Pupils walk to lessons at King's School, Bruton. Labour’s proposals to remove VAT exemption on private schools has been met with majority support by the public.Pupils walk to lessons at King's School, Bruton. Labour’s proposals to remove VAT exemption on private schools has been met with majority support by the public.Perhaps it’s down to upbringing, maybe it’s a fault in their education: for whatever reason, struggling high earners are apt to be their own worst advocates.
To be fair to the more entitled, self-pitying and tone-deaf representatives of the professional managerial class, there has probably never been a worse time to explain why you have an inalienable right to, say, a second home.
Some recent special pleading from second-home owners – as in, they’re actually poor, they’re doing the countryside/local community a massive favour – could have been composed by unusually resourceful Trots. Along withabout “raids” or “attacks” on taxpayers, another common objection to affluence-depleting charges, that of being “taxed twice”, could be advanced by anyone buying a can of beer out of taxed income.