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We have moved close to grammar school and the idea has been binned.

Lexusgs430:
I moved to Rochester because of the grammar schools, all my children attended Grammar schools....... Why would I want to waste money on private education, when I am already heavily taxed........🤣

missjekyll:
Where did they say that? This is a lie, Ms Peerielass. This is an elite gathering of Nigerians in Diaspora. They are perfectly capable of making up their minds on who to vote. We just lay out the facts and argue back and forth to have a little fun. There's no need to be disingenuous .

Google is your friend. They’ve done it before in the 60s and can re-introduce the policy again. Labour detests selective education and grammar schools fall into that category.

missjekyll:
That's a wealth tax. Labour has rowed back on this which is bonkers to me . But then I m on the left. They ve moved to the centre where the votes are in the UK.

I see 1.3 billion reasons to implement this and support it wholeheartedly

Then you should be proselytizing for either the Lib Dems, the Greens or the SNP if you are in Scotland. Labour and the Conservatives have merged.

Lexusgs430:
I moved to Rochester because of the grammar schools, all my children attended Grammar schools....... Why would I want to waste money on private education, when I am already heavily taxed........🤣

If there were no grammar schools within 50 mile radius of your home and all the local schools near you are oversubscribed or are low achieving, what would you do in that situation?

Cyberknight:
Then you should be proselytizing for either the Lib Dems, the Greens or the SNP if you are in Scotland. Labour and the Conservatives have merged.

Lib dems are on the right. They happily formed a coalition with the tories in 2010. I also vote for parties with a glimmer of a chance of winning. Green is out.
The tories have moved to the right. Reform is dragging them even further to the far right

This is the Institute for Fiscal Studies analysing the future tax plans of the political parties.

It's not looking good. See what your party has got planned.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKo6E0R45Bw?si=nI725tkDRJLqbJfw

missjekyll:
Lib dems are on the right. They happily formed a coalition with the tories in 2010. I also vote for parties with a glimmer of a chance of winning. Green is out.
The tories have moved to the right. Reform is dragging them even further to the far right

Whatever Nick Clegg preached in 2010, the current Lib Dems incarnation is centre-leftish now.
Anyway, good luck with Labour while I cast about for what to do with my vote.

Peerielass:
If there were no grammar schools within 50 mile radius of your home and all the local schools near you are oversubscribed or are low achieving, what would you do in that situation?

Gosh, this is a catch-22 situation, isn't it? Almost like the system is forcing you to pay exorbitant amounts to ensure a decent education for your child.

Not everyone can afford to move house.
If it's any consolation, a bright child will shine anywhere, even in afternoon school.

missjekyll:
Gosh, this is a catch-22 situation, isn't it? Almost like the system is forcing you to pay exorbitant amounts to ensure a decent education for your child.

Not everyone can afford to move house.
If it's any consolation, a bright child will shine anywhere, even in afternoon school.

I agree. Most times the bright kids are not the issue here, it’s the disruptive ones that are the problem. In situations where a teacher spends 30mins out of a 40mins period to discipline kids before the lesson commences. You will then have to arrange private maths and chemistry tuition for your bright child.

Gift that kept giving to the West.

This is your opinion, not a fact.

The racism in football, point being the recent slim loss to Iceland in a warm up friendly (basically an unimportant match), where (black) Bukayo Saka came on for 25 minutes but was splashed on all sports pages as the face of the loss can be termed as what?

Blacklash(sic) for dropping out of tournaments recently?

Racism exists, you can choose to ignore it.

Zahra29:
If you keep looking for/imagining racism, you will find it in some form. Most Brits are not racist today, they may have preconceived notions and might be reserved to start with, but most are fair and will ultimately judge a person on merit. If you work hard and are honest and open/friendly/polite, you will get on fine with most people in most places.

Besides, Africans/Nigerians have just as many stereotypes and isms against white people. "They are lazy, they are not clean, why don't they wash their trainers, they are not home trained etc etc" - these are examples of comments I have heard made against Brits, which is obviously not nice and we would cry racism if they made similar comments against us.

LaXxOnebody:
This is your opinion, not a fact.

The racism in football, point being the recent slim loss to Iceland in a warm up friendly (basically an unimportant match), where (black) Bukayo Saka came on for 25 minutes but was splashed on all sports pages as the face of the loss can be termed as what?

Blacklash(sic) for dropping out of tournaments recently?

Racism exists, you can choose to ignore it.

Football racism is a known fact and is even more pronounced in Western and Eastern Europe.

I didn't say that racism doesn't exist. My point was that not every look or comment or even rejection is down to racism, if you are on the lookout for racism you will find it even where it doesn't exist.

Peerielass:
If there were no grammar schools within 50 mile radius of your home and all the local schools near you are oversubscribed or are low achieving, what would you do in that situation?

That's why I moved to Rochester...... Within 10 mile radius, we have about 8 grammar school's ........

Lexusgs430:
That's why I moved to Rochester...... Within 10 mile radius, we have about 8 grammar school's ........

I rest my case 😂. You’ve corroborated my earlier statement that people with ‘means’ buy houses in sought after neigbhoods to be in catchment for grammar schools thereby pricing out the poorer folks. This is what Labour should be addressing @missjekyl.

Oga Lexus I hope you are not planning to move to Scotland soon in order to take advantage of free Uni. You too like awufu 😝

Peerielass:
I rest my case 😂. You’ve corroborated my earlier statement that people with ‘means’ buy houses in sought after neigbhoods to be in catchment for grammar schools thereby pricing out the poorer folks. This is what Labour should be addressing @missjekyl.

Oga Lexus I hope you are not planning to move to Scotland soon in order to take advantage of free Uni. You too like awufu 😝

Last time I checked, awoof no dey ever run belle.....😂

dupyshoo:
We have moved close to grammar school and the idea has been binned.

I hear you also love awoof.......🤔😂

UnconventionalT:
I need help guys. Is it absolutely safe to keep money in my revolut bank? I have over 4k pounds in it, my BRP is expiring by end of next week and I have moved out of UK. I fear an update or whatever will require me to verify my identity with a UK card which I won't be having very soon.

I don't have a direct answer to your question, but in your shoes, I will open a pounds mutual fund account in Nigeria with Stanbic IBTC asset management and dump the pounds there. The pounds will retain it's value as pounds and will grow with the mutual fund interest rate which is higher than normal bank rate. Revolut will not even give you interest.

Lexusgs430:
I moved to Rochester because of the grammar schools, all my children attended Grammar schools....... Why would I want to waste money on private education, when I am already heavily taxed........🤣

I was super elated when my kid got admitted to Sir Joseph Mathematical. Awoof club rules!

Count me in if the awoof involves giving the best education to my children without extra VAT after paying huge tax already.

Lexusgs430:
I hear you also love awoof.......🤔😂

Is Customary Marriage legal in the UK? Can it be termed as common law spouse?

Santa2:
I was super elated when my kid got admitted to Sir Joseph Mathematical. Awoof club rules!

I hope you're aware that if your child attends the closest grammar school to home, you're also entitled to free school bus pass...... If you haven't applied for this awoof, key in..... 🤣😂

My son attended Sir Joseph"s , absolutely brilliant school, whilst my daughter attended RGS....... .. My last daughter is at Fort Pitt .........

Kent is the grammar school gateway.........🤣😂

Make we enjoy the awoof, before Keir use hin bad belle comot them ........🤔😂

UnconventionalT:
I need help guys. Is it absolutely safe to keep money in my revolut bank? I have over 4k pounds in it, my BRP is expiring by end of next week and I have moved out of UK. I fear an update or whatever will require me to verify my identity with a UK card which I won't be having very soon.

If this was my money and I had no short term plans to spend it....... What I would do is :-

1 - Either open a Monzo account and lock it a savings account, you would receive about £10 per month.......
2 - Put money with a fund manager like Blackrock, moneyfarm or nutmeg..... And receive about 20% appreciation per year (cash invested can go up or down)....... 😁🤣

When you make your free choice you, will pay the VAT that comes with that free choice. We all pay VAT for whatever lifestyle choice we want.
If you have the resources to send your kids to a private school you can also sacrifice and pay the VAT that comes with it. The entire noise is bring propelled by ring wing media journalist because most of them went to these schools or have children there.

Peerielass:
Wahalla no dey finish for this country! Once Labour succeeds with the VAT charge on private schools. Their next target will be grammar schools, they will be stripping them off that status and making them non-selective schools which is why we should all fight against this policy by not voting Labour. It’s private schools today, tomorrow it will be grammar schools turn. We are living in a free state and people should be allowed to make choices that suits them.

kwakudtraveller:
Miss Jekyll I don’t want to believe that you are as ignorant as you sound. I’m not even a woman, but I understand the dangers of having transgender people share the same toilet as my wife. Transgender people have been known to sexually assault women. Do you even read any news at all? 

It is very ignorant to assume that only the wealthy take their children to public schools. Only recently, a young Nigerian boy who went to private school was killed with a sword. His parents are not wealthy, they are just an average family that wanted the best for their child. You have also been in the UK long enough to know that making private schools pay a 20% VAT would mean more expensive fees and parents being forced to move their children to already strained public schools. What are Labour's plans to fund public schools? To use the VAT to pay for 6,500 more teachers? And when the demand increases, increase the VAT again or increase people’s income tax? Our loyalty should be to the cause, not a blind following. Your so-called Labour Party has said more against immigration, but many pages ago, you said they were pro-migration. Think logically please.

Absolutely spot on. Divide that 6500 per student in state schools currently does not amount to anything. About 1 new teacher to each 5-6 state schools. How will they share that.

missjekyll:
We are already being taxed to death now. Do you want more of the same? I dont.

At least with Labour, i can see where my money is going.(into infrastructure)

Sadly it won't go into building infrastructure but employing needless people into roles that can be easily absorbed. Increasing workforce efficiency and productivity should be the target.

Not forecasting income that you don't have or might not get. What happens if the majority pulls their kids from private back into state schools? And additional strain is put on the already poorly performing schools.

Maybe personal experience will better inform you than statistics you are quoting

missjekyll:
And you will have it.your daughter deserves the absolute best. However, if going to private school, there won't be a discount. Its unfair to discount 7% at the expense of 93%.
If you can afford to do something that only 7% can do, you are not just "normal" people. You are doing very well.
93% of parents cannot do this even if they starve themselves and cut every other expenses.

You can also say the recent childcare benefits and discount extended to parents is also unfair to parents without kids innit

dupyshoo:
I was already punching calculator to consider independent school for my son but based on this policy, our focus is now on Grammar School. Let us use our tax well and save our money.

Honestly and even at that the competition to get in and the cost and sacrifices you will put in place to get the placements. All of these arguments just points that they are not in touch with the reality of how badly positioned the country, economy and it's infrastructure is.

You can't improve the economy just by continously increasing tax and not addressing the bottlenecks.

For example, there have been several government funded research on how to improve the NHS and yet no one has fully implemented or tried to even done anything about their recommendations, and thus wasting resources.

How do we increase salary for nurses, we increase tax and IHS fees, same old cycle

Any small problem, lets tax them.

missjekyll:
Clap clap clap. The only vat payable on this one is on your child's cerebrum.

Lol at least hope he or she will be able to help their generation better with the vat taxed cerebrum

missjekyll:
That's a wealth tax. Labour has rowed back on this which is bonkers to me . But then I m on the left. They ve moved to the centre where the votes are in the UK.

I see 1.3 billion reasons to implement this and support it wholeheartedly

This figure amounts to nothing when majority goes back to state funded schools. Na so them give us statistics for brexit and quoted figures to us.

And how far will that amount go in reality

Lexusgs430:
That's why I moved to Rochester...... Within 10 mile radius, we have about 8 grammar school's ........

Lol only rochester. We have just 1 where I live and its girls only. And it's very very competitive to get in

Lexusgs430:
I hear you also love awoof.......🤔😂

I know moving to an area helps with school selection but the child must still pass the 11+ exam right?

fatima04:
Lol only rochester. We have just 1 where I live and its girls only. And it's very very competitive to get in

Come over to Rochester, we have Fort Pitt, Rochester Grammar school, Rainham school for girls, walderslade school and Chatham Grammar school (only girls)......🤣😂