‘Children’s education is not a heavily logo’d handbag, the newest iPhone, a flashy car loitering in the driveway of your house… It’s the basis of our kids’ future,’ Grazia's Polly Vernon writes.Labours plans to impose a 20% VAT on private school fees are still causing a hell of a row. If the party wins the general election, Labour intends to take the money raised by that extra VAT – an estimated £1.6bn a year – and use it to pay for more teachers in the state system which seems...
Still: I have had some awkward convos on the subject. Especially when I hear Labour’s VAT policy described as ‘the politics of envy’. As if it could only possibly be explained as a cynical attempt to win votes by trading on the spite-laden, petty-minded pique of the 93% who can’t afford private education, so want nothing more than to see others denied it.
This confuses me. Partly because not everyone thinks about private education like that. Some of us look at the sh*t show of the Government of the last few years – with particular reference to Boris Johnson – and think: that’s what very expensive education gets you, folks! Entitled incompetence at the highest level!
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