We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays

[Kugelblitz]

Can’t link but a headline post in the Telegraph. The trolling is desperate surely ?

Are your diamond shoes also too tight?

Who are you asking that question of?

That didn't lead me directly to the article, but I did enjoy discovering that the Telegraph has a journalist called Sophia Money-Coutts.

Also surely a wind-up?

Yeah, I've just realised the OP was talking about a news article! My bad, sorry!

I'm afraid she is a real person and has been writing for the Torygraph for some time!

A made up news article that has now been removed from the newspaper’s webpage.

He must have been a bon-native (migrant offspring) in Singapore - locals schools are for locals only, or at least it has been the case before the great Dad of the nation died. Must have been a migrant expat.

People already support it: 54% in favour, 22% against, according to polling. Privilege is unpopular, and rightly so.

I don't care what they own (and living in London skews it anyway), I care what they do.

Who's Radnor?

They support it because they have been lied to, just like this article. They have been told that it’s going to raise lots of money for state schools, which it isn’t. And it isn’t attacking privilege, the genuinely privileged are not impacted by this policy.

Evidence pls

How awful for them.

They support it because they have been lied to, just like this article. They have been told that it’s going to raise lots of money for state schools, which it isn’t. And it isn’t attacking privilege, the genuinely privileged are not impacted by this policy.

Most people are just indifferent and don't care if they have been lied to or not. The narrative that people who use private school aren't privileged is a difficult one to sell!

I mean a millionaire will feel poor next to a billionaire but to someone who is neither the millionaire is still privileged...

In the recent court case, evidence was shared that the Government were advised that far more children would be removed from
private schools than the IFS report they were publicly relying on and using in their election campaign. The Government was also advised that the timing of the implementation of the policy would be the most disruptive to pupils, and schools but they still went ahead with a Jan mid school year start anyway. It was also proposed to them that children with SEND should be exempt but, again, they chose not to. Some of it was reported by the FT at the time of the court case. If you have a subscription, you should be able to find it.

None of what you say there supports what you said in your previous post. It's a different issue entirely.

@Kugelblitz are you coming back to tell us that you have requested that your post be removed now that the article has been removed from the Telegraph site?

So sad🎻

No, it’s not. If the policy doesn’t raise money then people have been lied to…the Government knew that the risk of that was high due to the number of pupils who would be removed from independent schools. They were publicly talking about a report that said that less pupils would be removed, but they had separate advice that the numbers would be higher.

Why do posh people never have chins.

Nah, it HAS to be a wind up! 😂

😆😆😆

Why do posh people never have chins.

A weak chin much be a dominant trait, look at Trump and all his dc.

If the policy doesn’t raise money then people have been lied to

people don't care, look at Brexit and the money for the NHS. Reform is increasing its voter share!!!

and your post doesn't prove that people are only pro VAT because they were lied too.