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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    I like Kieran Maguire, but Football Insider has become one of the most click-bait sites around. Pretty sure when it started, it had lofty ideals, but it's gone lowest common denominator really quickly. That £500m include wages, agent fees and transfers, so we're probably not far off that most...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    I'd be astonished if 1/6th leave private education. As far as I can see, the figure of up to 1 in 5 came from a survey by the Independent Schools Council, and even they appear embarrassed to promote the fact that 60% of respondents said they would "probably or definitely pull their kids out of...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    Absolutely - I wasn't totally joking when I posted earlier that private education is actually a burden, which the taxpayer should be compensated generously for. Not sure how many billions the private education sector should be paying us in compensation for a fuckwit like Boris Johnson, but not...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    The slipperiest of slippery slopes. Triple rate of VAT for you!
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    It's surely a bit more complex? I'd argue you can only really look at it on it's own, as there are plenty of things paid for by taxes that you might not use, but you don't get a discount for not using them. And if you're paying for a private education because you believe it gives your kids an...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    The opinion polling shows that most people don't consider it to be a particularly controversial topic. It's not a sweeping statement about the media. It's factually correct that public school pupils are significantly over-represented in senior politics and senior media positions. It's also a...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    Suggesting that someone saying they've "not much sympathy", is on the positive side is a bizarre take, given the four choice involved. Also, support by social class jumps from 14 in C2DE to 23 in ABC1, so there is a significant difference. However, that has no link with the statement I made...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    So adding another tax cut for people using private schools to the one they already have? Not sure that's going to go down too well :) It's very, very different to childcare costs, which are not a choice (or the choice is between being able to go to work and not working, rather than giving your...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    I suspect that's a vanishingly small group. I can believe that many people make sacrifices to pay for private education, and that a lot more are aware of just how much more they could do if they weren't paying £15k a kid for schooling. However, I am not convinced there are many who are really...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    It's one of the least controversial Labour policies around. It only appears marginally controversial because so many in the media and politics, who are commenting on it, went to, or have kids at private school. The vast majority of the population have almost no sympathy at all for the families...
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    For most careers it probably doesn't make a huge difference. For the ones with power; politics, senior lawyers, senior civil servants, journalists - it's "curious" how much of a difference it makes.
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    I'm not sure that having £14k of after tax income available to spend on school fees, is compatible with saying that "most [parents who send kids to private school] aren't loaded". I realise that people on high incomes, often don't feel well off, but to even have the choice of spending that kind...
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    Donald Trump

    Given how many of his supporters genuinely believe he is God's messenger, they probably think he's moving closer to the big man, and beginning to speak in tongues.
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    Ticket Sales Criteria - Real Madrid and FA Cup Semi?

    I doubt fairness is the only reason. It's almost certainly the fact that the club finds the early CL games more difficult to sell than league games. This is a neat way for them to avoid the criticism from last year, and encourage a few people who miss out, to go the group games next year.
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    Liverpool Thread - 2023/24

    They were sent along a much more open route. There's a good explainer here of the route. It's got very long, very narrow sections, mixed in with some wider areas, so you get huge numbers of people gradually filling up every space. They then get funnelled into ticket checks, where going...
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    Liverpool Thread - 2023/24

    There was definitely a fuck up by the Police and UEFA. There's some blame on Klopp for encouraging fans to turn up, and also for those fans who had fake tickets/tried to jib, but the majority of people queuing will have been normal fans who had paid for their tickets. The Merseyside police had...
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    The Labour Party

    I read recently that, despite showing up constantly to Labour events, Starmer hadn't exchanged more than pleasantries with Mandelson for nearly a year. Not seen any real evidence that he's weedled his way in, which he clearly is trying to do. The man's addicted to power, and probably sees an...
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    The Labour Party

    Which part of the clip suggests that? Sounds to me like she says they're not going to listen to Mandelson, and the deal they've agreed with the Unions is vital to their plans.
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    FA Cup Semi-Final | City v Chelsea | Sat 20 Apr 5:15pm

    I suspect Stephen is right on this one, but then City are in a unique situation. As we've seen from the Wembley thread, we've played a hell of a lot of games at Wembley. In terms of FA Cup semi-finals, we'll have been to 7 of the last 8, and to Wembley 15 times in 8 seasons. Given we've also...
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    It's like asking the judge to give marks for effort in a murder trial. "I know he didn't do it, and someone else has admitted it...but look at all the people here? Look at all the paperwork. I had to stay up late doing that. It must be worth a couple of years?"

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