No vegetarian meal option on my @British_Airways flight today. I’m almost glad I won’t be travelling with you once the ridiculous and punitive Executive Club changes take effect 🙈
@louderry@bphillipsonMP Also, the in-year start date is cruel - the vape industry has a 2 year respite from new duties, so I’m not clear why the same isn’t being offered to kids already in the system. BP should represent 100% of kids, not throw the 7% under a bus.
@louderry@bphillipsonMP As others have said less kindly, it’s worth you understand this policy properly before making sweeping comments like this. It’s very likely going to raise little or no money, and every single extra child in the state system will increase pressure on teachers.
@Ambermanx@DrNShastriHurst How many other organisations are asked to absorb 20% costs for a pass-through tax? And given the clear evidence of harm, why are kids not being given the courtesy of a 2-year delay before this tax is imposed - like the vaping industry is?
@oldishbird1@anaboultertv@YouTube@EducationNotTax@LBC@piersmorgan ‘Most’? So it’s ok for ‘some’ kids to have their education damaged by this policy? Wow, you sound like a SUPER person 🙈 Why not tax gambling, or LLPs, or bring the vape duty forward? All of this would raise far more money than VAT on fees - without harming kids #findabetterway
@BBCNewsnight@faisalislam Wait, so independent schools are doing this well, while State schools are not - and the answer is to shut down the indies? 🤯 @bphillipsonMP you can #findanotherway that sees both sectors working together. Maybe ask @Keir_Starmer to tax his friends at the big law firms instead?
@StephenMorganMP If it helps, easier decisions would be to tax vaping, and gambling, and LLPs, instead of implementing a policy that will, at best, raise a tiny amount of money while putting the education of thousands of children at risk. Why aren’t you doing those things? #EducationNotTaxation
@GeorgeFoulkes@UKLabour VAT on fees is double taxing working families, forcing many to move their children mid-year, often in exam years. It will result in more elitism, not less, larger class sizes in state schools and levelling down across the board. Remind me why that’s a good thing? #findabetterway
@pmosligo@flyinglawyer73@LauraRWeldon@RachelReevesMP Not questioning her qualifications at all. Questioning the veracity of statements she has made relating to her professional experience, which goes directly to her integrity. If the claims are wrong, she can come out and say that, surely? It’s an easy fix.
@pmosligo@flyinglawyer73@LauraRWeldon@RachelReevesMP And to be clear, there is no expectation that she has a particular qualification. But honestly and transparency are fairly key requirements of public office. Male or female, same requirement.
@pmosligo@flyinglawyer73@LauraRWeldon@RachelReevesMP You know I’m a woman, right?! 🤦♀️It’s not about gender - I don’t recall any of them mis-describing their professional experience. And if the criticism is wrong, why doesn’t she come out and deal with it? That’s an easy fix!
@pmosligo@flyinglawyer73@LauraRWeldon@RachelReevesMP And the comment about her being a woman is just silly - this would apply regardless of her gender. It’s her professed experience that’s in question, not her anatomy 🙄
@Keir_Starmer And yet you’re exploiting children for political gain because you know they can’t fight back, while making sure your own son’s education isn’t disrupted. Shameful. #educationnottaxation#findabetterway