Middle Path Estate Planning @MiddlePathEP

I think this is the clearest example of the Spite Tax. It is also a clear signal to Bridget to either pay up or repeal it.

I have no objection to anyone being proud of their school. That's a healthy emotion. What is not healthy is people in the top 10% income bracket claiming to have the disadvantages of the bottom 10%. That's deceptive to the point of being ludicrous.

@alexlawrencesw1 @ShakinthatChalk I was going to say the same. I would be interested to know how many hours a week @ShakinthatChalk spends driving their kid to club training and watching them swim up and down. Do they prepare special meals to give them optional nutrition for performance? Very interested.

Full-time-equivalent teacher numbers are down 1,900 since Labour came to power. Reeves’s tax rises killing tourism, says BA chief telegraph.co.uk/gift/a11b3ecd4…

Another example of @RachelReevesMP absolutely disgusting behaviour! Not inviting @Blake_MidBeds to the @UniStudios Bedford resort announcement. But @YasinForBedford was. Just grow up @UKLabour - are you claiming full credit for this one too? Pathetic.

🚨 Good morning to the millions of everyday Brits waking up right now to go to work and pay their taxes. Just a quick reminder before you start your daily commute. You are paying the highest taxes in British history to a political establishment that actively despises you. You are getting up early and working yourself to the bone to fund luxury hotels for illegal migrants, bloated green vanity projects, and a Labour government that is busy plotting how to surrender our borders back to the EU. They are using your hard earned money to fund the managed decline of your own nation. Do not let them normalize this. Have a great day, and retweet if you are absolutely sick of footing the bill! 🇬🇧☕️📉

@RachelReevesMP And then there's the real world.... how does it help working class people to go to universities that are not worth the fees and come out with a load of debt? Plenty of successful people don't go to uni. You are overvaluing it in current times. It is not what it once was.

@kettering_red @CharlotteW_R @resistance76365 @anaboultertv @bphillipsonMP @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer @Kier_Starmer well it sure as hell wasn't about raising money for state schools. those that voted Labour based on this policy were robbed. in fact no labour vote was won legitimately. The Government have u-turned on virtually everything .

@anaboultertv @bphillipsonMP Fingers crossed they win and this government have to refund every single penny they have taken. It’s was a despicable decision - and no I have no family at private schools and I didn’t ever attend one!

“The Supreme Court has granted permission for a group of independent Christian schools, parents & pupils to appeal the Government’s decision to impose VAT on independent school fees… on one of the central grounds of challenge, proportionality”. christianconcern.com/news/christian…

The figures are out. Labours VAT on Education Policy failed. It was always going to - it wasn't based on thought it was based on a grudge and a game. Games over @bphillipsonMP @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer - it's time for you to be displaced like the 30,000+ children you hurt.

.@UKLabour JUDGE ANTHONY RUSSELL KC. Has given at least 6 non-sentences to convicted paedophiles. Strip him of his position and jail!

@ClarksonsFarm1 Whilst great in principle. How does that work when the Farmer's IHT bills are spelling the demise of the UK agricultural sector? This is why this Government is so crap. When they pull one lever they have no idea what is affected. Impact assessment? They couldn't give a sh*t!

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

And judge Nicholas rowland will not be sanctioned for his sheer negligence/incompetence and misogyny. It’s up to his peers to force him to ‘retire’ in deep shame. His daughters should disown him

Hear me out: Remove Judge Nicholas Rowland. Three teenage boys gang r@pe two separate girls, are found guilty and he protects their future and says, “No-one need go to prison today.” EXCUSE ME? WHAT? What about the victims? This IS misogyny - the act of r@pe and the response by this Judge. Accountability matters particularly at a time of increasing misogyny and male violence to girls and women. ENOUGH of professionals and systems backing up perpetrators 🤬💀 It’s good the sentence is being reviewed - the Judge should be investigated and removed #CrimeAnalyst #Pattern #Misogyny #MaleViolence @laurarichards99

THIS IS HORRIFYING TO LISTEN TO JUDGES MUST PAY FOR SOFT SENTENCING >Two girls aged 14 and 15 were gang raped by 3 boys (no description given) > They filmed it on their phones and posted it online > The girls relived the horror, watching themselves be raped on video in court > Judge Nicholas Rowland praised the boys behaviour in court and said she doesn't want to criminalise them > She then gave them youth rehabilitation orders and they all walked free from court Judge Nicholas Rowland should lose his job and never practice law again This case must be retried And if the boys are from migrant backgrounds, the public deserve to know.

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

Does anyone else think it’s weird our Education Secretary is all for reducing VAT on rollercoasters and chicken nuggets but well up for adding the full 20% to SEND children’s education?

@TrisOsborneMP @RayFacey How does taxing the education of half a million children help? Your policy has closed schools, cost staff their jobs, disrupted the education of tens of thousands of children & cost the taxpayer. “A disproportionally prejudicial effect” on kids with SEND. A tax on disability.

Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith

3 weeks ago

The government forecast private school numbers would drop 6% after VAT was added to fees. Now, the data from Scotland shows secondary schools registrations have fallen 15% - numbers from the rest of the UK will be similar. Far from raising money, the policy looks like it will

272 1K 4K 251K 160