Back in the headlines …
Our MSM are salivating: there’s ‘class war’ to be had! The working stiffs who still buy their daily paper for their commute are presented with these choices this morning: “Newspaper headlines: Private schools ‘go to battle’ and HS2 salaries” (link).
Grim as it is, better prepare for a constant drip-drip-drip of the policies of envy, splashed out in the Westminster MSM up to the day of next year’s GE. The aim is so very transparent: get Labour in. And so, while one lot of news editors moans about Ms Braverman daring to say that multi-culti doesn’t work, the other lot goes on about unfairness and ‘teh rich’.
The readership of The Times’ must either be card-carrying Labourites or they are being groomed to get Starmer in by inducing a guilty conscience for daring to be ‘well off’ and ‘posh’. Public schools have been a particular bugbear of the Left and now they believe they can finally destroy even this part of British culture:
“Labour will introduce VAT on private school fees immediately if it wins power, meaning parents could face higher costs shortly after an election. The charitable status of private schools will be abolished in the first months of a Sir Keir Starmer government, the party has signalled. VAT at the 20 per cent rate would be added to fees in the first academic year after an election, rather than being phased in.” (link, paywalled)
This cash grab is necessary, according to Labour’s chairwoman Ms Dodds, because they want to improve the state sector’:
“We want to make sure that every child can attend an excellent school,” she said. “We need to be gathering the money from somewhere in order to be able to deliver that change; we’ve been really up front about this.” (link, paywalled)
Indeed they have – but don’t expect those top Labourites and their helpers in the Westminster MSM to look at the ‘success’ of state education in all those schools in towns and cities where Labour has run local councils, sometimes for decades. Schools are run by local councils, not “The State”.
I suggest that the uproar about crumbling school buildings has only abated because some editors found this out. They’re of course not going to point their fingers: that would anger Labour. Who needs education anyway when someone like Ms Rayner can become deputy leader, and when there are NGOs who determine which latest trans stuff is going to be taught to our children.
Funny, innit, that Labour doesn’t look to touch the tax ‘relief’ enjoyed by NGOs. Gov.uk sez: “Charities do not pay tax on most types of income as long as they use the money for charitable purposes.” (link) – such as ‘teaching’ our kids the ‘joys of trans sex’, or ‘helping’ illegal migrants to stay in the UK, and never mind the spiralling cost. ‘Human-rights’ solicitors must also earn their crust.
Clearly, “we” need even more tax money because “we” must also pay for stuff like HS2, Sunak’s attempts notwithstanding. Funny, innit, how there seem to be no declarations of support for HS2 from the opposition. I’m not sure if the Left regards HS2 as a ‘class issue’, given that only ‘fat cats’ would use it, or if they regard it as a work-creation opportunity which also ruins the land which only belongs to rich toffs.
Labour’s tax grab by VAT on public schools isn’t the only class war issue. After all, in this period of ‘cost of living crisis’ it’s only fair to take more money from ‘the rich’: they can afford paying more. Ramming home this message of class ‘war against the rich’ is an op-ed piece in The Times, headlined:
“Rich don’t need an inheritance tax windfall – Rishi Sunak believes death duties are unfair and a brake on aspiration but they raise £7.2bn a year the country needs” (link, paywalled)
And so the home-owning middle classes are suddenly ‘rich’, thanks to the rise in house prices. Clearly, not owning anything nor saving for one’s old age is abhorrent, fat-cattyish, unfair … I only wonder if the writer will gladly hand over the taxes on her inheritance, assuming she has parents who’ve not been on bennies all their lives.
I leave you with another lovely ‘report’ – on shoplifting. We’ve learned that shoplifting has become ‘a thing’, that supermarkets need security people to protect their shelves. I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear that it’s not just ‘teh poor’ who shoplift but also ‘middle class wimmin who do it ‘for the thrill’ (link). How dare they blacken the image of the shop-lifting poor who only steal because they need the food!
That’s all I have for today. I pray for the strength and courage to open the MSM pages tomorrow … Have a good day.
Absolutely not Jake.
No-one has contributed more tirelessly to giving us a Labour government than the Tory Party.
Re “Heat or Eat”. There seems to be a lot of people in our society that have no clue as to how to run their finances.
Lisa on 27/09/2023 at 10:13 am:
Wasn’t the mantra “own nothing and be happy”? I wonder how many gullible people thought it a good idea? Our recovery would be difficult enough, if not impossible, without the endless crap being spewed by various NGOs and government.
Most large charities are just fronts for money laundering and jobs for the boys, i.e charitable foundations. Bliar is a prime example, his web of offshore accounts is legendary. Those that can, will make sure their lives are not affected by using insider knowledge and imaginative accounting.The modest property rich/cash poor middle classes will be reduced to the lowest common denominator
The claim that state schools will benefit is laughable. The rot is too deep and embedded into indoctrination to make any difference now. It starts at nursery level and goes downhill from there. I have seen a massive increase in home schooling in my County regardless of the attempted interference by the Council. Obviously abuse aside, this is entirely due to the unwanted and dangerous drivel coming out of most schools. The one private senior school plays lip service so most non-educational matters and their results speak for themselves. I know, my youngest son attended. We juggled everything to give him a better chance and in his case it paid off massively.
Governments red/blue/sky blue pink will not rest until you own nothing and are completely miserable. Absolutely nothing is working right now in the public sector. Rant over.
Universities are accepting an ever higher proportion of foreign students and so will public schools if Labour force such education to become too expensive for British parents. But then so much of Britain is now foreign owned from utility companies to transport via manufacture of cars and much else. The UK has been selling the family silver for decades. The disappearance of British culture that Braverman highlights is well advanced through immigration but as that culture disappears even further, as the British ‘brand’, valued around the world still but only just, is diluted and corrupted our foreign owners will lose interest. When they do things will become a whole lot worse.
Labour: A disaster in the making as ever. Not that the Cons are much better. Choose your candidate carefully with a tactical vote where necessary…
Jack. Please don’t say that means you will fall for the oldest trick in the book – voting for one establishment party to keep the other out? If you are then you may be part of the problem
If there’s one thing I would avoid if I could do things all over again, it’s State Schools, they’re just brainwashing institutions. I’m not sure that many of the private schools are any better, I would avoid most of them too; I suppose it would come down to home schooling.
I had a highly intelligent son, he went to some of the worlds top universities and came out with firsts and distinctions and yet he is a complete dickhead that doesn’t know his ar*e from his elbow.
Flyer it’s the old addage they are told what to think not how to think.
Lisa – well at least he hasn’t cut his dick off and started wearing women’s clothes so I suppose I have to be grateful for small mercies.