Riccardo del Rødstrupe

Milton Friedman was right about everything.

[John Duffield @jfwduffield]

Truly appalling human beings. Education is a merit good which benefits the whole of society. Doctors, engineers, scientists, judges, military officers etc. Each child sent to a private school saves the taxpayer £8,500 year. Britain is the only OECD country to tax education.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Could you ask your Labour colleagues who sent their kids to independent schools, why they did so. Could you ask the others, who can afford to avoid sink State schools by buying expensive homes near good state schools, why they did so.
Could you ask yourself why no other European country taxes education.
And could you then give your head a rattle: parents who elect to pay tens of thousands of pounds to educate their kids shouldn’t be demonised, but celebrated. They save the State the trouble of educating their kids, while still paying taxes as if the State was picking up the tab. Your vindictive VAT rise has closed more than 100 private schools, some centuries old. There is nothing noble about your self-justifying ideological vandalism.

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

What is she going to do, check our arseholes for the 5p we swallowed as kids?

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@Finumus1 A bit like the temporary income tax to pay for the war

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@bphillipsonMP It’s precisely this sort of poorly thought out sixth-form politics that will hasten the bankruptcy of the country.

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@olliemafc Don’t come around here with your numeracy!

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@AtticumFloreat Isn’t that how an economy works?

Rich people buy stuff, which provides jobs for the less well off.

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@ajcdeane Socialists rarely understand the consequences of their actions. Instead, they remain wedded to their perceived noble cause.

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@KEdge23 Innumerate

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@bphillipsonMP The innumerate opines

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@HBrubanter Semi, yes

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@LoftusSteve Surely parents that send their children to private schools are subsidising the state school system.
They both pay tax and save the state the £6-8k annually that it would cost to educate their child.

[Deb @Elephantastick]

Thanks to Anna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, me- a Northern working class parent, 1st in family to go to uni, etc is a 'pearl clutching Tory' - cos my SEND child is at private sch. I've never been so insulted!

Btw, Anna went to private sch. Labour's hypocrisy is sickening.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

I would be happy to pay the VAT on my two sons' school fees (about £4K each p.a.) as long as I get a tax credit for the £7.7K each p.a. cost of state school places I do not use.

(and explains why this is not a "tax-break" but idiot Labour MPs cannot see beyond their own spite)

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@theawayfans Southgate was good but ultimately won nothing.
Last and second get the same prize.

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@annaturley So who pays when a private school is forced to close and those children go to state schools?

[Morgoth @MorgothsReview]

Just because I think it’s unusually hot doesn’t mean I want AI carbon reduction monitoring technology inserted into my arsehole.

Few understand this.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I already want Andy Burnham to resign and he isn’t even Prime Minister yet.

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@StanCollymore If Gordon and Spence need coaching mid-game, then our preparation probably needs improvement.

[Riccardo del Rødstrupe @X_Will_R]

@itvfootball Patience wasn’t the correct call was it?
If you are having to coach your players mid-game because they aren’t up to speed, there’s clearly a problem.