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.

Why would Brussels not want the UK to rejoin?

Quite.

The government could always disclose that the imposition of VAT raised nothing (it was probably a net loss), and so scrapping it would be beneficial.

I'm wondering if all the countries would be keen, that's all.

It's going to take years, by then people will have got used to it. I doubt it will be high on the negotiation table list.

We've been a pain in the arse over the years because of British exceptionalism.

I'd be delighted to rejoin, if the EU would have us, and I wish they'd get on with it. We did pay VAT on school fees, but only for the last child for her final 2 terms. I think VAT on school fees would be a minor issue in the event of rejoining the EU - is this even a serious question?

This is an odd way to approach this question OP. I doubt there's any Labour voters who care about this as much as you do.
Wouldn't you do better asking if people who minded the VAT would vote Labour on the off chance they'd take us back into the EU, on the further off chance it would stop the VAT? That's far more likely a question you'd get strong opinions about. In fact I'm curious myself. Would you?

Very serious indeed. This is the third thread of OP's dedicated to this era-defining issue.

Unless certain far-right parties seize control of major economies, I doubt anyone would block it.

There would be some gnashing of teeth, but (to the extent you can even say things like this), Europe loves us for what we are. That slight detachedness is part of our national character, and, for me, the EU was about bringing us closer together while recognising our national differences.

Also, we're the world's fifth or sixth biggest economy, which seems relevant.

This thread doesn't make sense anyway OP because pro-EU people are more likely to vote LD (probably). AB stated Brexit has been a disaster. Well, we all know that. The LD's explicitly state they will seek negotiations to begin the process of rejoining.

I have no doubt that we would be accepted back. Most people I know from EU countries were shocked and upset when we left, with some thinking we'd lost our marbles.

Unfortunately, the risk of far-right parties seizing Germany and France is high. If they do, we have to hope they learn from the pragmatism of Giorgia Meloni. As well as the risk of the UK being blocked from re-entering, there is the discomfort some would feel about the direction a right-driven EU might take.

If you read the some of the posts on here it seems no lessons have been learnt at all from Brexit, apparently the rules won’t apply to us and will be negotiable. Nice to know we still hold all the cards.

Well, France is normally the enfant terrible.

That said, the EU today, is not the same EU it was ten years ago, both in an economic, and a political sense.

I think that Burnham believes that by rejoining, all of the UK’s structural economic woes will be resolved. They will not.

Careful. You'll be wanting evidence based policy next.

Going into negotiations believing we hold all the cards would expose us for fools. A little humility would not go amiss.

Each country gets a veto and some of those countries want something in return, last time we joined the EEC France did a last minute ‘Fish grab’. With the threat of war hanging over the EU, they might be keen to just have another nuclear power and large economy back in the fold.

OP if the Tories promise to scrap VAT immediately on private education but also promise to not rerun the EU question, will you vote for them?

Someone just needs to approach the EU and propose the exact same deal we had before leaving and see what they say. That is what Barnier had implied. It would simplify absolutely everything both for the EU politically and the British population.

We cannot rerun based on a hypothetical deal. That much everyone will have learnt from the previous time.

Didn't enough people explain to you yesterday that there is no such thing as a children's education tax ?
Why come back again with this nonsense ?

I bet they'd want a quick re-entry - otherwise benefits won't materialise in their next parliament and they will face rather unfortunate situation. Rejoining can be done quickly because we haven't moved that far from EU legislation and I'm dead sure EU will play a hard ball with no opt outs (rightly so), apart from possibly Euro.

I really want to see Labour crawl back to their hole with this stupid tax.

That’s reassuring to hear, some people are incredibly fanatical about the idea of taxing some children’s education. I got the impression it was a Labour supporter wide point of view.

some people are incredibly fanatical about the idea of taxing some children’s education

This is your problem OP - no one is ‘fanatical’ about VAT on private school fees - most people couldn’t give a shiny shite.

The only fanatical person around here is you.

Andy Burnham was quite clear in his conference speech that he wanted to start discussions about the UK becoming closer to the EU, with the outcome of the discussions being reflected in the next Labour manifesto. He referred to different options, one of which might be rejoining. There are numerous others.

What he didn't say was that with no mandate and no referendum, he would take the UK back in.