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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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d) top being tight pay upfront.
The school we were previously considering sent an email saying you'd get a 1% discount if you paid all the fees upfront. Tbf it did also include a hefty disclaimer that if there was anti-avoidance legislation that applied VAT you'd still have to pay it.
Idk how you manage to pay all that in one go, but I guess some people can 🤔
hugo7
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.