Would Labour voters be upset if joining the EU meant they could no longer tax children’s education?

[Blarneyspoco]

Taxing children’s education is banned as part of EU membership. If the U.K. rejoined the EU, would Labour supporters be upset that they can no longer levy the tax or would it be seen as a necessary compromise.

Labour shot themselves in the foot by talking about funding the recruitment of 6,500 with the revenue raised from imposing VAT on private school fees. 6,500 teachers is about 1/3 of a teacher for each school, which would make no measurable difference. Furthrrmore, when you consider the offsetting of capital projects, the change is raising less revenue than Labour said it would.

Operationally, it could have been handled better, a PP have suggested. I suspect that civil servants overlooked the fact that about 30% of schools are SEN schools. Neither do I think they paid proper attention to the impact on small local communities through the loss of supporting businesses such as cafés, and landscaping and cleaning services.

Typo

It also ignores the fact that the revenue from taxation of tobacco and alcohol products outweighs the cost to the NHS of smoking and alcohol related diseases by several multiples.

Are you serious?

Gardeners, plumbers, decorators?

How exactly do you expect them to use a bicycle?

Not everyone can afford private education. Not everyone has access to private education.

But we’re not there yet are we ? The projection was to raise £1.8b per year for schools by 2030.

Outweighed

61% of Tories didn't want other people to have nice things?

And now less people can.

Are we for widening children’s education options or narrowing? Do we want fewer schools or more schools?

The cost of fuel is a cost of running those businesses, private citizens can choose to not pay the fuel duty by using alternatives

Totally agree!

Then let's not make it even more expensive.

@HelpMyBlackLabradorVotesReform is woefully out of touch - see my previous post on attitudes to state schools. Hers is a dystopian world: young people barely able to write their name, most state schools shit, parents without judgement, the spiteful poor. We'll all be fine when Nigel Farage is PM though, and dystopia transforms overnight into nirvana.

It our local school was only good 45% of kids would be leaving it pretty much illiterate. It may be good enough for you, but it isn't for me.

Like we all know this tax makes up 1% of the department of education budget... So even less than the total gov spend..it's pointless.

Look at what other countries do and why they don't do this!

It wasn't the Tories finest hour.

Can they?

Bring a sick child to hospital, the dog ti the vet, drive granny home, drop of the rubbish at the tips

If there is one thing the left loves more than anything is telling people what to do and how to do it and the punish them for their choices.

I think SEN children have suffered, unfortunately.

Judging by some of the threads on MN.

We could have sent our dc private. They got scholarships but we chose grammar. We don't begrudge anyone doing private schooling. I totally understand why. Some of the people and behaviour at the comprehensives.... I don't want my DC ending like that!

You have to include vaping costs/benefits, too.

What percentage of journeys involve that sort of thing? You're making a mockery of yourself now

That's why vaping has been allowed to proliferate and if their take of alcohol taxes drops due to Gen Z not drinking the Govt will legalise cannabis. To prtect their revenues.

You don’t. Vaping is recommended by the NHS as an aid to give up smoking.

Could you re-phrase that? Looks like some autocorrect has made it a little unintelligible, ironically

Why would it go up over the years? It’s caused private schools to close.

Yep.