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We know all the anti Labour posts are really just about VAT on school fees!

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YouOnlyHateStarmerForVATOnSchoolFees · 25/09/2024 12:24

Day in day out whining about Labour and looking for any reason to moan about Starmer, I’m honestly expecting to see a “Starmer ate my dog” post soon! 🙄

We all know you’re just upset as you’ll be charged VAT on little Arabella’s school fees!

So my AIBU…

YABU - It is not just the school fees, honest! I preferred ‘honest Boris’ and ‘man of the people’ Rishi. Or that lovely Liz, we were so much safer with them!

YANBU - The posts are so blatantly motivated by the VAT on school fees that it has becoming utterly boring. Jog on ‘disgusted of Hampstead’ and join the local comp!

😘

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Another76543 · 25/09/2024 12:38

People are complaining about much more than VAT on school fees on threads about Labour. Removing WFA from pensioners on £12k a year isn’t particularly popular. Nor is lecturing everyone on tightening our belts whilst accepting huge donations of luxury clothes, holidays and accommodation.

poppyzbrite4 · 25/09/2024 12:35

Carrotmccarrotface · 25/09/2024 12:34

Why? I couldn’t care less if they could see my bank accounts. I have absolutely nothing to hide. I think this is a vital tool to be able to clamp down on tax evasion and money laundering.

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You obviously don't believe in the right to privacy.

Carrotmccarrotface · 25/09/2024 12:34

poppyzbrite4 · 25/09/2024 12:30

I'm very annoyed that they're going to give the DWP access to people's bank accounts.

Why? I couldn’t care less if they could see my bank accounts. I have absolutely nothing to hide. I think this is a vital tool to be able to clamp down on tax evasion and money laundering.

Ijustdontcare · 25/09/2024 12:32

Its not just about the VAT that has people questioning them.

Here's a list of policies they have moved to implement so far:
Cut at least £3bn in departmental spendings
Cut Winter Fuel Payment
Criminalise puberty blocker usage indefinitely
Back Tory's anti-protest laws in court
Stop building the new hospitals
Stop railway upgrade plans
Crackdown on benefit fraud
Reduce sickness benefits claimants

If I showed you that list 12 months ago while saying the party in question was under scrutiny for excessive expenses claims and donations 99% of people would say it would be the tories I was talking about.

GiantHornets · 25/09/2024 12:31

Neither of your options work as an AIBU.

What is boring is the tedious use of “posh” names like Arabella when supporting VAT on school fees

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 25/09/2024 12:30

Even the unions aren’t on Keirs side.

poppyzbrite4 · 25/09/2024 12:30

I'm very annoyed that they're going to give the DWP access to people's bank accounts.

Zimunya · 25/09/2024 12:30

I'm English, but didn't grow up in the UK, so realise my perspective may not match. But it seems so odd to me that politics in England is always presented a two horse race, as in this post. It's perfectly possible to not want Boris in power but to also be slightly disappointed with Labour at the moment. Those opinions are not mutually exclusive, and are nothing to do with private school fees (at least, not from me, as I don't have a child in private education). And what if you're a Lib Dem supporter (I'm not - I like my politicians to know what a woman is) - you could surely then be equally disappointed in both Boris and Keir, without considering VAT on school fees at all. I think the OP conflates too many differing issues here.

EasternStandard · 25/09/2024 12:29

Werecat · 25/09/2024 12:26

I think a fair few now are about winter fuel and taking ‘gifts’

Yep, and if the op looked off mn they'd see even more of the same

Werecat · 25/09/2024 12:26

I think a fair few now are about winter fuel and taking ‘gifts’

Carrotmccarrotface · 25/09/2024 12:26

There’s taking away for the wfa to wealthy pensioners too. You forgot that.

Hoppinggreen · 25/09/2024 12:26

Well I am paying school fees and am not happy about VAT on them BUT I am also not criticising Starmer or labour
So how does that fit your theory?

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