To start to think reform will be voted in next time, and they will be running the country

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I’ve been a life long labour voter, but I’m starting to think reform will be elected next time
mainly just due to so many criminals that want to harm us being allowed in and allowed to stay
and uncontrolled immigration

I think they are going to win it on this reason alone
every single day there’s a news story usually more than one someone’s been raped by one of these criminals one the other day even said he didn’t understand what rape is and he thought rape was just sex

what do you all think ?
Will reform be running the country soon ?
if they are are the capable of running things in other areas ?
if they take over how do you see that actually panning out ?

Private schools are a privilege, a choice and not accessible to the majority of UK children.

As of May 2026, the revenue raised from VAT on private school fees accounts for approximately 0.13% of the total UK government budget for the 2025/26 financial year.

I agree.

Why are people remembering the austerity years of the Conservatives as those halcyon days!

Even worse, misremembering the Brexit campaign and Farage's UKIP campaign and the Boris bus!

Can you explain? Private education means non state funded education, if you pay a fee for children’s education then you pay 20% tax on it. 20% on 0 is 0. The policy itself is called the ‘education and vocational training’ vat notice, maybe take it up with HMRC if the name make you uncomfortable.

Is that before or after taking into account the shift to state school at £8.5k per pupil per year, direct and indirect job losses and investment.

Raising approx £1.8b annually by 2029/30

This revenue supports a £1.7 billion increase to state school funding in 2026/27, raising the total core school budget to £67 billion

Violent crime is falling though. Immigration hasn’t caused a massive spike. All crime is bad and any group of people will contain wrong ‘uns, but I don’t think you can make that correlation.
‘Can’t have them here anymore’? Them who? Any asylum seekers? That’s just impossible (and undesirable anyway).

I’m not sure why women are this deprioritised.

There’s no gaslighting about one in one out. The figures are easily available. Small actual numbers but with that and some other recent agreements we are seeing a drop in boat numbers. Like I said, I’m not really commenting on Greens.

Do you include women and children in 'we can't have them here anymore'?

Do you think the majority of asylum seekers commit crimes?

The post says ‘accessible for free’. Honestly the ‘it’s not free it’s funded by tax payers’ line about welfare state institutions is utter nonsense. We all know we mean free at the point of use. Nobody thinks they are created by magic.

Are you backing Labour’s asylum approach?

Ok?

The tax is on private education, a subset of education, it's not on education generally.

I fail to see how I can explain it clearer. Are you deliberately misunderstanding me?

Accessible for free

Granted some ask for voluntary contributions that don't seem very voluntary.

I guess technically a net tax loss can ‘contribute’ to a 1.7 billion increase in state school funding. https://www.scis.org.uk/assets/Economic-Impact-of-SCIS-Schools-in-Scotland-2024-25.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

This argument always ends the same way, we all
know why some people support taxing children’s education. Why the flimsy excuses that make no sense? I just don’t know why people don’t have the guts to say why they support it, I for one would have more respect for Labour supporters if they were more honest. It’s just annoying when they pretend it’s for new teachers or whatever

Absolutely not a chance. Reform do well because Farage is good at media and the media likes him. Not true of Restore. Plus do you know how many people with credible chance of being effective MPs need recruiting? Reform are finding it difficult even for local posts and those they do find are having to be ditched sharpish far too often. Or just resigning when they find work is involved. Another party fishing in the same pool makes it even harder. There’s credible evidence that some of the Reform council candidates are ‘paper candidates’ ie they don’t really exist/i tend to take up a post. They are there to make up numbers.

Yes.

A lot of them certainly do.

It was in Labour's manifesto and was hugely supported.

Children's education is not taxed, state schools are accessible for free

Why not admit you don't like it for personal reasons? Be honest about it.

It’s interesting isn’t it? 0.13% of the budget is being pushed here as teeny tiny and insignificant. Refugees make up less than 1% of the population and they are a huge issue, impacting our way of life and making everyone unsafe.

Like I say, the difference is the funding and 20% of 0 fee is 0. Take it up with HMRC if the name really gets to you, maybe they’ll rename it to posh girl tax or something. It will still be a tax on children’s education though.

I’m not at all sure what you mean. Recognising that violent crime is falling isn’t deprioritising women. Unless you’ve got some evidence that violent crime against men has dropped off a cliff and many more crimes are being committed against women and all by asylum seekers, of course.

A lot? So not the majority. But you would deport them all regardless.

Children and women included.

I’ve said repeatedly I don’t like all their asylum policies. I like the international agreement bits because as I’ve said, again repeatedly, I think the only solution is international agreement.
Are you backing Reform’s?

Not a tax on children's education. A tax on private education.

It's not the name I have an issue with, it's the repeated misinformation.

Why are you repeating the lie? Why won't you describe it accurately?