The Irony.. PM's donation was for ‘son to study for GCSEs’

He didn't accept a £20k donation

He has declared the use of a flat

Nowt to do with rich people having to swap schools because they can't scrape a few grand on a credit card

He was staying there for free. No money was given at all. Because he declared it, an equivalent monetary value was placed on it. No one gave or received £20k. I wish people woukd look into things properly before commenting.

Exactly, every single day around the GE it was constant gleeful comments of 'I'm so relieved to have grown ups running the country again.'
Pretty galling to have to listen to for those of us who were fairly sure it would simply be the changing of the guard in terms of the old, bloated snouts in the trough being swapped for new snouts, with fresh and eager appetites.

I don't think there's a double standard here at all

I think you're all scraping the barrel looking for an issue that isn't there because you're miffed about the additional bit of extra expense

Why would children feel stressed about the VAT introduction? Surely that's for the parents to own and deal with

Have you actually read the thread? You complain you are sick of reading threads about VAT on school fees, yet here you are derailing a thread about double standards to talk about VAT on school fees!

So your kid is about to enter year 11 and you don't want to move them to state school foe their GCSEs and you're already paying £25k a year in fees

Really? You cant find the extra five grand?

Nobody believes this

This thread is not about private school fees

And... just as a thought, nobody's forcing you to join any thread.

It has not been a great start.

We have gone from Boris wallpaper to the cost of Kier’s glasses. Labour can’t spend years throwing stones and then claim there’s nothing to see here when the Labour top team are feasting. Why does Angela Raynor have her own photographer at £68 k? Surely that would fund a teacher?

Maybe politicians should pay tax on gifts? Kier should pay 20% on the accommodation for his son’s revision, bit like 20% on school fees

It's just that every day, there's a new thread on private school fees

It's done now. Accept it

@JacketPotatoFoodOfTheGods

Is this everything you know? funny you post on different threads the same response

Are you ok?

💤💤💤

Personally, i care more about kids living in poverty struggling to do their GCSEs

The money must come from somewhere

I've heard it all now.

Yes. Im sick of it

It's 20%

Get a loan and remove your kid next year

It's private school!!!!! It's a lucury

And that's your sole contribution to this thread?
You have nothing to add about the apparent double standards of criticising people and then doing the same yourself?
It must be very disappointing when your hero turns out not to be a hero at all, but hey, at least you can still have a pop at 'middle-class whingeing' eh?

Give over

Another middle class/ well off person whingeing about their school fees

And Keir wasn't backward in coming forward to criticise him - if.you set yourself up as virtuous and full of integrity- whilst questioning the integrity of others - then you fucking pay for your own clothes, any other material goods and your own child's schooling - and to have done this whilst taking from people on the basis that they have some sort of level of perceived privilege (through increased taxes and removed benefits) - then he is no better than Boris.

Nope, not trolling. Just identifying fact that KS suffers from double standards just as Boris did.

No point in putting a super hero cape on KS, and his cronies are clearly as corrupt as Tories ever qere.

Ps I always voted Labour, but won't be doing anything as foolish as next time.

Their double standards appall me.

I absolutely agree with @JustSpeechless OP and strongly suggest that anyone else who also agrees writes to their MP about Keir’s apparent hypocrisy.

his 6 million pound wedding paid for by a donor

£6 million wedding?

The wedding cost £23,000

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/08/boris-johnson-given-23000-tory-donor-lavish-wedding-party/

got gifted £160 thousand pound of wallpaper

The 'gold' wallpaper cost £2,250 - less than Lady Starmer's frocks.

Not all of the suggested works were taken up, and in the end the project cost £112,549 inclusive of VAT.

The PM eventually settled all the costs himself including those paid for by the 57-year-old peer.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/08/leaked-200000-list-reveals-2250-gold-wallpaper-in-boris-refurb-plans-16966070/

No money changed hands. He borrowed a mates flat for a quiet place away from journalist.

They don't call him 'Two Tier Kier' for nothing!

On the subject of private schooling I benefited from a bursary which allowed me to be educated in a small private school in Oxfordshire. The irony of it was that the private school fees were cheaper than those for being accomdated 'in care' (as I had previously been and was for a while once i left school). I gather that some have argued that the VAT impost will mean that parents of private pupils will end up placing them in the 'better' state schools. These schools, they say, will delight in grabbing the 'best' children so as to have as many high-performing pupils as possible so that they achieve a high rating with OFSTED. Pupils from poorer backgrounds will be more likely, so the argument runs, to be dumped in middling or failing schools. Sounds plausible, but we'll have to wait to see the effect of the policy once applied. It doesn't seem so far fetched that a piece of legislation designed to promote equality might end up bringing about quite the opposite.

I would

@GripeOfTheDay KS has done nothing illegal whether you like it or not.

Lord Ali is a Labour peer/friend and a member of the Labour Party. Lord Ali was made a Lord in 1998 by Tony Blair

No money exchanged hands. KS simply registered the interest and what it would cost if he had to pay rent for it. The apartment was empty during that time.

Are you for real? Boris lied to the country over Brexit, illegally perogued parliament, lied and covered up all the way through Covid, tried to get away without registering gifts, got gifted £160 thousand pound of wallpaper, his 6 million pound wedding paid for by a donor and investigated by the police, given a fine and much more

You have to be trolling cos you can't be serious