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One of my oldest and closest friends, and I was best man at his wedding, is a Tory. I used to be able to tolerate it, but when he was bemoaning the costs of putting his kids through university, I couldn’t hold my tongue any longer and launched into a rant about getting what you voted for. The thing that really gets my goat is the lack of self awareness and how fortunate our generation was, which he benefited from enormously. He’s actively voted to remove those opportunities for his own kids, so he should fucking suck it up.
We’ve not spoken since.
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Tell them to use the state system and save all that lovely money. It's only kids right?
I assume they decided the cost was worth it originally when choosing to educate the kids privately?
On a serious note, remember to tell all your (non Tory) friends to register, if ID is a problem tell them to get a postal vote, this can either be posted or dropped at the polling venues on the day.
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To play devil's advocate, sometimes people just want to moan.
It's not that extreme to bitch about something that's going to impact you. Imagine the reaction here if there was 40%VAT on Vitsœ and cargo bikes.
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heir response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."
It makes me so angry
but the elephant in the room is people on the national average and below wages who voted tory. the top 5% of earners didn’t put them in power by voting for them.
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the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable.
Remind him that a) who knows if that will even be in the manifesto b) even if it is implemented, it's the choice of the school to pass that cost on to parents. c) perhaps without Truss his mortgage would have been 20% cheaper
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On external inspection, I would present as Tory, private education recipient and consumer of, high income, landlord etc etc.
But fuck these twats.
Don't vote for yourself, vote for the greater good, because we are all part of the 'greater'.
Be tactical, flush these fuckers out for generations.
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Their response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."
Tell them they need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, work harder, be more successful, and stop living off tax breaks.
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Their response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."
Perhaps if money is that tight they should have gone to state school.
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I commented in whatsapp to a friend of mine that the election will fall on their birthday.
They are a Tory voter with kids in private school.
Their response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."
It makes me so angry.
a) It is merely that a luxury service will now (rightly and not by nearly enough in my view) increase in price, due to a tax loophole being removed. If this now prices said friend out of the market, then they will join the vast majority of members of this nation who are not in the wealthy minority. Suck it up.
b) what about all of the Tory policies that have made life so unaffordable for so many?
c) what about all of the Tory mistakes that have made life so unaffordable for so many?
d) the labour manifesto and policy comes with fair warning and sign posting, unlike b and c above,
e) the money raised by charging VAT on private schools, goes to make a decent standard of living possible / affordable for tax payers. Of whom they are one.
I fucking struggle with having a Tory friend. It's so Orwellian to both like and totally disrespect someone simultaneously.