It Was Never About the Teachers: Labour’s Tax on Education is a Class War in Disguise conservativepost.co.uk/it-was-never-a…

“Derbyshire's education plan must double the number of new school places to meet the rising demand expected in 2026, according to the latest figures.” Why is demand so high there? 🤔 Kit Peacock Ana Boulter Emma Guy Catastropheebs 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 derbyworld.co.uk/education/derb…

“VAT on private schools? It’s not policy, it’s cruel punitive theatre. It was never about teachers. It was never about revenue. It was about revenge, a kind of Marxist cosplay, complete with spreadsheet rhetoric & absolutely no idea what they’re doing.” conservativepost.co.uk/it-was-never-a…

“This is the politics of envy dressed up as progressive reform. A move so blinkered, so economically illiterate, and so socially divisive it could only have been conceived by people who confuse resentment with equality.”🎯👏 Emma Guy Catastropheebs 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 conservativepost.co.uk/it-was-never-a…

It is the government's own analysis that 54,000 children will be displaced by its education tax. That's the equivalent of 196 primary schools worth of children that The Labour Party views as a reasonable level of collateral damage. It's just plain wrong.

"Shut schools, displaced children and lost communities are immediate results of a damaging policy" telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/deva…

REVEALED: the full, devastating impact of Labour’s VAT raid on private schools. Over 16,000 pupils have left private schools due to VAT on fees. Where Labour said 3,000 would leave by July, it is now even more certain that this policy is loss making. telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/deva…

Very clearly expressed. In a civilised nation, any politician who knowingly forced dozens of good schools to close and thousands of children out of education, would be facing a court hearing. Why aren’t they?

Joe Nutt There is an awful desacralized transactional mindset behind what Bridget Phillipson has done. As if changing a school is like swapping a biscuit brand. No recognition of the fragility of childhood and the friendships and attachments that shape it.

“State schools in Kent received ~100 enquiries in the 48 hours after a private school closed citing the VAT raid. Taxpayers have been left to foot a £1.2m bill. Labour’s claims that the policy will raise up to £1.7bn were a “pack of lies”. Neil O'Brien telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/stat…

Labour’s end-of-year school report is dire - “Irrespective of what you think of fee-paying schools, the decision to make them more expensive has been both disingenuous and self-defeating.” Victoria Isabel Paterson Neil O'Brien Joe Nutt spectator.co.uk/article/labour…

Parents that are actively engaged in their child's school career have the equivalent impact of adding 2-3 years to their education. If we're serious about 'breaking down barriers' or whatever the latest focus-group-approved phrase is, we need less State and more family.

Something very sad about hundreds of years of history and tradition going up in smoke. It's happening all over the country as far more children are forced to move than Labour predicted. AND Phillipson is junking 30+ years of reforms that improved state schools to boot. Ugh.

200 years of history wrecked by one year of Labour 🥀 Ideological and nasty. Very sad - lots of sympathy for the affected children, their parents and of course their teachers.

Wow; 183 years of history destroyed by spiteful politics. We should be proud and supporting these places. Not hammering them. Utterly shameful.

Andy Parr Powered by Bowie 🦖 Steve Perez Rachel Reeves Keir Starmer Here you go. Numbers directly from the government census show a decrease of 15,804 children in mainstream independent schools between Jan 24 and Jan 25. And before you ask, this drop (-2.8%) cannot be explained by birth rate (-0.7%).

This is might signal a tipping point for HM Treasury This is a big cost. What might have been a 500 x £3,500 (£1.7m per annum - bursaries notwithstanding) VAT gleam in Rachel Reeves eye is in reality a 500 x £10k revenue + £10k amortised capital cost per annum. Vandalising

I smell a rat & it’s possible that UK Prime Minister is preparing to deflect away from its causal role in creating chaos in schools. Hundreds of schools will close. Thousands of teachers will lose their jobs. Tens of thousands of children will have their education screwed up.

Never forget that this was Labour’s immediate priority upon entering govt. Not sorting out crime, immigration, housing, taxation. No, their first priority was to destroy the independent education sector. Voters should have realised what was in store after this …. Labour out

“Few policies have been so speedily exposed as vindictive and counterproductive as Labour’s imposition of VAT on school fees” ⁦Ana Boulter⁩ ⁦Victoria⁩ ⁦Catastropheebs 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⁩ ⁦Chester⁩ telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/0…