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the absolute cheek of this government
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knows no bounds at the same time as
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slapping private schools with hundreds
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of thousands of pounds of fees and
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hammering them with the vat which is
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having a devastating effect on hundreds
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of thousands of children a government
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spokesperson says to the times that all
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Charities must show public benefits and
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we expect charitable private schools to
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continue this through their partnership
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work with the state funded sector with
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means tested bseries of course they mean
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that the private schools are having to
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cut back on the bseries the free places
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that they provide or the discounted
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places that they provide and the
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Partnerships and the collaboration with
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State calls that they also run and
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provide such as the use of their
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facilities and so on they have to cut
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back on that because they're having to
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cut costs somewhere this government
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spokesperson wants it both ways they
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want both all of the fees that they
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would ordinarily get as a charity which
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they are removing and they still want
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them to do the charitable work now for
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the avoidance of doubt it is not and has
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never been a tax break it is a
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charitable exemption or at least it was
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because education should be a charitable
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exemption it is not a luxury service and
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furthermore in defending this abhorent
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policy in my view it's reported that
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Rachel Reeves is now spending hundreds
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of thousands of pounds of taxpayers
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money on multiple Kings Council to
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defend this in what is being described
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as an unprecedented legal challenge
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other experts have commented and I agree
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that this is exceptionally rare for this
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sort of policy to go to court to be
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challenged by so many claimants and this
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is one such challenge that may well be
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extremely embarrassing for this
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government if they lose this in court if
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this policy is found to be
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discriminatory because if they lose this
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policy in court they may have to wind
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back this vat policy on private schools
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and of course the hundreds of thousands
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of pounds that it's likely to cost
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running this to trial with multiple
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Kings council is all going to be a
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complete waste of money one of the
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principal arguments in this claim in
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this judicial review is that this tax
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upon private schools breaches the
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children's right to education because
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for many of them it makes it
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unaffordable now some people will say
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well they can just go to the local state
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school but that has obviously proved to
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be impossible for many children because
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they just simply are no places in many
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areas and they've had to travel 20 30
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miles away and the local authorities to
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pay for taxes to get them there but not
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only that even those that are sort of
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within 20 to 30 miles some of them just
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don't have access to the same courses
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the schools just don't run the same
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courses some of them many of them have
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special educational needs which will not
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be met by the state system and so for
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many of these children they will have or
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have already lost access to that
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education and th this argument makes for
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quite the compelling legal challenge
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James Gardner of Sinclair's law who
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representing the group of claimants said
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tens of thousands of parents are behind
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this unprecedented challenge to a
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totemic and harsh government policy the
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stakes for peoples with severe special
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education needs are unimaginably high
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even the government admits that the
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state s system is completely broken and
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it's getting worse every year but the
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government isn't backing down it's
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committed vast resources to this battle
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and is fighting it hard a government
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spokesperson on the other hand says we
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do not comment on ongoing litigation
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matters and then regurgitates the same
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line they've said before ending tax
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breaks for private schools will raise
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this amount of money by 2029 to help
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deliver 6 and a half thousand new
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teachers raise School standards
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supporting 94% of children in state
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schools to achieve and Thrive all of
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which I take with a huge uh handful of
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salt because I simply don't believe the
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figures I personally don't believe they
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will raise the money they will say they
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will I don't believe they'll recruit the
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teachers that they will and I don't
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believe that this is going to have much
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of an effect on the standards across the
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country at all and even if they did hit
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the target of 62,000 teachers which I
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doubt that would still be fewer than one
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in every five schools given that there's
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almost 30,000 schools across the country
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now just very quickly one thing I've
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description below um she says when
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defending the controversial decision to
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impose VAT on private schools the labor
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government promised that the end would
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justify the means the money raised would
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be used to recruit 6 and a half thousand
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more teachers over the next 5 Years yet
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with no concrete details on how it would
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find and retain those teachers this
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ambition seemed less achievable than
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ever a new report from National
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Foundation of Education research has
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found that the teacher vacancy rate is
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six times higher than it was in 2010 and
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that this is having an impact on pupils
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in 2015 only 10% of secondary pupils
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were in classes of more than 30 whereas
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that figure is now 15% she goes on to
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say the 6 and a half th000 shortfall in
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teachers is an unrealistically small
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number to put this in perspective last
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year the UK recruited 13,000 fewer
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teachers than required and every year
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around 40,000 teachers leave the
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profession in stem subjects the problem
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is even worse in 2022 the UK only
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recruited 177% of the required physics
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teachers meaning we would need 3 and a
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half thousand more teachers just to
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cover this subject alone and to make
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matters worse labor is now apparently
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diluting this original promise all by
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the way detracting from the original
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point of the point was taxing the
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private schools to pay for these
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teachers that's now changed labors now
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changed this originally proposed 6 and a
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half thousand teachers a year to this
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will be over the term because according
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to Bridget philipson this is a rather
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large number of teachers and yet it's
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still too low Christina merket rights
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and effectively meaningless because it
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is also not clear whether this target
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will include the extra number of
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teachers AED in the sector or just new
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recruits Kama therefore isn't exactly
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promising more teachers just more than
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there would otherwise be in other words
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I agree with Christina it's meaningless
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this 6 and a half thousand number is
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meaningless it's put out to convince
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people and this is what really
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frustrates me with politics these
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messages are put out to convince people
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that this is the right thing to do only
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then we realize well actually it's not
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over one year or every year it's over
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the term and in fact the number's
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somewhat meaningless anyway because the
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amount of teachers that they need and
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the amount of teachers that are leaving
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the numbers just don't stack up all the
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while attacking what really should be
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the pride of Britain the private school
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sector that we have very high standards
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in many of those schools we should be
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supporting that and championing that
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rather than hammering it with extra fees
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many of you may not know that it's not
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just VAT on the school fees but they've
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also removed the business rates relief
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for charitable stateus schools meaning
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they will now pay hundreds of thousands
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of pounds a year extra just on the
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buildings that they already use not
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going to more education not going to
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working with the rest of the community
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which this government spokesperson
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insists that they do even though they
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are taxing them to hell and many if not
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most of the very smaller ones are likely
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to close as a result of this now Bridget
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philipsson will say well many of them
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close every year that's true many
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businesses close every year but that
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doesn't mean we should just now slap on
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extra taxes because to hell with them
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and it doesn't really matter in fact we
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should be supporting those and doing
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what we can to help and support those
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schools because again what many people
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don't seem to click and realize is that
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for every single child that is in a
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private school they are saving the state
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at least £8,000 a year in taxpayers
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money which by the way the parents of
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whom are already contributing to that
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local state school because they already
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pay their taxes and so their place is
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not only already paid for but it is
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freeing up that money for someone else
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to use whilst they are paying into the
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private school sector which is
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supporting the economy supporting jobs
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and supporting everything else but of
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course labor now says that this is the
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right thing to do but coming back to the
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point this is now a fairly unprecedented
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legal challenge which might end in a
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huge embarrassment for this government
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if the Court decides that this policy
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needs to be walked back because I for
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one can see the court siding with the
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fact that this is a right to education
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and that this is interfering probably
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unlawfully with that right to education
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and I for one hope that uh this group of
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claimants succeed and that the court
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rules that this policy is unlawful but
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uh just so that you know where the
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hundreds of thousands of pounds extra
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are being spent to fight a policy which
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is already not really going to do in my
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opinion what they say it's going to do
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let me know your thoughts and comments
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in the box below because at the same
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time it's not just the private schools
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that are at risk here we are now on the
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reportedly on the brink of recession as
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her spending cut are triggering huge job
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losses and reportedly the biggest job
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loss in a decade for businesses cutting
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these jobs cutting uh staff cutting
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salaries and without new policy action
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we may well see the office for Budget
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responsibility revise down their
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projections of this surplus of almost 10
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billion by 2029 to a deficit of almost 5
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billion and according to make UK which
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is a manufacturing representative body
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they say that they've hit difficulties
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now with the employment taxes and
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business taxes and around half of the
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companies they represent because
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obviously they are staff heavy have
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halted their hiring process and four in
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10 are set to reduce any planned pay
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increases so this is not more money in
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your pocket in fact many people will
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lose their jobs and they will not get
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the pay Rises they were expecting so
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this is damage upon damage and
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compounding damage to businesses across
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the country I hate to be the Doom and
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Gloom guy but let me know what you think
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in the comments these are things
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happening across the country real
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policies and I for one I'm pleased to
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see that at least one of these has been
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challenged in court let me know what you
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