Vat on Independent school fees?

University students next up on the Reeves and Starmer hit list.

Well, the culture war BS has made the situation far worse for universities with it being more difficult for overseas students to study here. Someone else now has to make up for the shortfall in income. Some Tories will be happy as it means reducing the chances of oiks getting a university education.
 
Don't know what you are seeing but my 2 children and their friends all early 20s seem to be having a great lfe and most things better than they were for me in the late 70s early 80s.
Yep, mine too. The biggest difference between then and now is how difficult it is to get on the housing ladder. Resigned to have to give them a significant advance on their inheritance to enable them to buy somewhere half decent. It’s sad that most people will be forced to spend most of their lives lining a landlord’s pocket.
 
Don't know what you are seeing but my 2 children and their friends all early 20s seem to be having a great lfe and most things better than they were for me in the late 70s early 80s.
Suppose what I am seeing is, yes, the young ones today all seem to be having great lives, I quite agree. Compared to your generation, which I suspect is our two children’s generation, it seems loads better which in turn was better than our generation.
However today’s 20 year olds have probably already experienced all those things it took it look us years to experience. I haven’t yet made my mind up whether that’s good thing or not. There is so much mental illness around all of which is not due to Covid.
 
Today the Telegraph reports 2,500 kids have applied to join State Schools from fee paying schools.
At the end of June the same paper said that figure would be 224,000.
Do you see how this works?

:)

Would be interesting to know how this differs from the average number of children who go from private to state each year. I would have thought it would likely be higher than 2,500 when you account for changing economic circumstances of families, moving home etc..
 
Yep, mine too. The biggest difference between then and now is how difficult it is to get on the housing ladder. Resigned to have to give them a significant advance on their inheritance to enable them to buy somewhere half decent. It’s sad that most people will be forced to spend most of their lives lining a landlord’s pocket.
My niece is 23, she moved out a few years ago with her boyfriend rented a flat down oldham rd near miles platting, rent was about £800 a month, landlord got greedy and upped it after a year to £1100! She moved back to her mum and dad’s with boyfriend in tow. They stayed for around 8 months then decided they wanted to ive to the city centre, rent is around £1200-1300 a month. So instead of saving for a deposit whilst living at her mums they are now blowing close to £15k a year in rent! They could’ve bought a house in Oldham (ye I knew not the best) near her mum for around £120k. Get on the ladder and then move up, but she like many see what others in socia media have and want that lifestyle, she could’ve been paying half that in a mortgage and having a better life, ut she knows better will get to her 30s and be fucked, what happens to all these renters when they retire, unless they have huge pensions they’ll never afford a decent place to rent, but they live for the moment these days and don’t seem to care about their futures.
 

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