'Ordinary parents PUNISHED' by Labour's private school taxation 'CALAMITY': 'it is about fairness'

[@gftjghdt3582]

Another labour politician dodging questions

[@pip1723]

LOL .

[@stequality]

Politicians never do that do they ? Never

[@SW-tw8rf]

Fake news by the channel

[@incurableromantic4006]

It's the standard tactic of all uniparty politicians - ignore the question and just repeat your pre-agreed soundbites.

[@davidmchale5890]

What politician ever answers any question Did you see James Daly squirming on politics live

[@brendanmorrissey2104]

Why ask her any reasonable questions? She is a professional politician who doesn't care what so ever happens to normal people trying to do their best for their children.

[@CalumRoberts-i1x]

In 2013 which is when I finished school, the average classroom size was about 25 By 2030, if Starmer gets & almost all private schools are forced to close it'll be about 70 As much as I personally oppose private schools how the fuck are classes going to be able to cope If you want your kids to have a private education from Secondary to Sixth Form It's going to cost you £500,000 Per Child!! Cooper is an opportunist & quite nasty if you ask me

[@mikeryan3701]

Labour clearly haven't got a clue how they are going to accommodate extra pupils in state schools. They don't seem to care a toss about the problems that this policy is going to cause in state schools.

[@CalumRoberts-i1x]

@mikeryan3701 Evidentally not I honestly think if Caroline Lucas defected to Labour under a Corbyn/McDonell Government they'd do a better job

[@manoo422]

Welcome to the next 5 years of spite, hate and division...

[@Trendycosmetics-os6gh]

Labour won't win GE. Those satanic polls are meaningless. Starmer is dangerous and voters don't love Starmer

[@clarepartrick1066]

Another reason not to vote for Labour.

[@djmattblack]

None of these politicians can lie straight in bed, never mind answer a straight question

[@davehunter9342]

"Refugees welcome " Cooper -Balls

[@lothos-tu4uh]

...just like lisa nandy in wigan until 'something happened' and suddenly she changed her mind... 🤔

[@lyndahorgan3306]

She wants them all processed quickly so they can stay. She is hopeless!

[@misuel]

Yvette Cooper couldn’t answer any straight question. She’s horrendous

[@nilesanders5110]

Sooner or later, you run out of other people's money.

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Is the conservatives or labour?

[@pip1723]

What like the Tories have done?

[@marielaveau8761]

We are in debt, we ran out of money a long time ago. Expanding the state will not do anything to counter this situation.

[@pip1723]

Question should be were has all the money gone? 3 trillion in debt and nothing to show for it ....nothing .

[@lothos-tu4uh]

the current tories are bad...labour is always worse...

[@garryworthington1334]

Don't trust a word that comes out of any of the worst crop of politicians at the moment of both main parties we are screwed 😣

[@redroutemaster]

I DO NOT CONSENT. We need to force out these charlatans.

[@petermitchell6348]

VAT on education is an abuse of the VAT system. Education is NOT a luxury!

[@NilsAlmquist-d9k]

Private education is.

[@petermitchell6348]

@@Scatavic63 State education is not FREE. WE all pay for it!!!

[@GCSengineering]

Utter stupidity as usual from politicians

[@joycegibbs5267]

but we keep voting for them so why should they change ?

[@stevejacobs9320]

Puppeticians!

[@nm25-q1n]

Yvette cooper is hopeless. Vote them out at the next opportunity

[@junniper2443]

Why is she smirking, when she’s unable to answer a question.

[@pip1723]

Probably looking forward to a Labour victory in a few week's👍.

[@incurableromantic4006]

Because she knows the cattle will vote for her regardless.

[@valeriegrimshaw1365]

If Labour hadn't got rid of grammar schools and technical colleges the clever poorer kids would get properly educated...but NO we can't have clever working class people getting educated because they won't vote Labour ......

[@kay2kin92]

Keep Um Poor . Keep Um Down . Keep Um Voting Labour . ! ..........

[@PhilMaiden]

Absolutely NO questions answered.

[@grus599]

61% of our doctors studied in private schools. The middle class will be punished by Labour again. The 20% VAT from private schools is a pittance for funding all our children's education. It's really interesting how they plan to raise engineering education standards without increasing engineers' salaries, which are among the lowest in the Western world. Does she realize that to be a good engineer, training alone is not enough?"

[@robertjackson5645]

Ideology over clear thinking.

[@Just..........33]

Private school save the state school £7500 a year per kid.

[@Redstef-m2r]

Very generous of you to contribute. Thanks

[@Just..........33]

O yes, that's what labour love's

[@Just..........33]

And I did send my kid to private school,it was hard but it was my decision.

[@Redstef-m2r]

Your choice so good for you but don't accept your calculations of £7500 per child not kid please remember your education

[@Funintherain13]

@@Redstef-m2rthe government publishes the cost as is anyway - it is no secret

[@andrewrose7800]

Taxing education is an ignorant and spiteful policy. The tax deducted will not be ring-fence for education needs. How can it be fair.

[@davidsmith8728]

She talks aboout 'fairness' in education. Wouldn't it be more fair if a child is taken out of the State education system to be educated privately then the parents should receive a discount on their taxation because they are not costing the State anything to educate their child. That would be fair. To say that this is all about fairness is a load of nonsense. They just don't like people being able to spend their money on their own choices. They want people to do as they are told by Labour.

[@romeisfallingagain]

state education is for raising the slave class. private schooling is for raising the master class. its that simple. they dont want poor people in private schools

[@andrewmayo608]

Shadow home secretary....gawd help us all if this odious character gets into government. I despair

[@nickstevens9172]

“I understand your questions”, well done Yvette, maybe you could go the next step and answer them…

[@johnhay4228]

Labour dont give a toss about your children education . Its about taxing the middle class and the better off parents who wish to give their children a better schooling .

[@michaelsimpson4400]

Private schools I don't think charge 20% more currently for the fun of it. Prices have risen as energy costs, wage costs, food costs have all risen. The fact is pupils will go into the public sector where there is limited capacity. Also, private school teachers are fully funded by fees and pay taxes. Even if they move to the public sector their pay will come out of the public purse. Its economically illiterate.

[@incurableromantic4006]

They *never* answer any questions. What's the point of interviewing them?

[@mikeryan3701]

If VAT on private schools leads to fewer pupils attending private schools, there won't be much extra VAT going into the government's coffers.

[@fatphoca5009]

And they will have to spend more on state schools completely negating any money they claim they will get from this ridiculous policy.

[@michaeldibb]

Over 70% of her Pontefract constituents voted to leave the EU and she campaigned against them. if only the Brexit party had stood down in her Pontefract constituency in 2019. She'd have lost her seat!! A despicable career politician.

[@bidencheated7758]

Vote Reform ❤

[@Clansman63]

Welcome to changed Labour my arse. VOTE REFORM 🇬🇧 IF YOU WANT CHANGE.

[@samhodgins9804]

Deliberately ignoring the questions

[@malcolmnicolls1060]

Vote REFORM PARTY GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO Save the UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧. Hope the People that vote Labour enjoy another 5 years of SUFFERING GOD HELP THE COUNTRY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@joesmalley2336]

Un other words, they haven't got a clue.

[@bevkauppinen8962]

She is exactly the reason why I won’t be voting Tory or Labour this election. Just give a yes or no answer to a yes or no question can’t you?😡

[@charliedriver2564]

Not one straight answer!

[@fatphoca5009]

Haha she has no idea how to manage it.

[@terencewhite8105]

Typical don’t answer the question,how many Labour politicians children go to private schools,or they went themselves

[@stukavonferno8858]

Cooper is thicker than the thickest two short planks!

[@gusrose14]

She’s not actually. She’s dangerously wily and has no respect for the electorate. A very worrying person to have anywhere near power.

[@GCSengineering]

How will they use the vat if the schools close?

[@andrewsmith78926]

why would they close?

[@martinwilliams4759]

​@@andrewsmith78926 because no one will be able to afford it

[@ld2770]

@@andrewsmith78926because fewer people will be able to afford it

[@Mark-kh1ny]

@@andrewsmith78926they don’t even have to close. The more pupils that leave, the less parents there are to pay VAT. Meanwhile, they’ll be even more pupils to pay for in state school. But some will close, of course they will. The one down the road from me has 182 pupils. There has to be a minimum viable number to pay for the upkeep of the building let alone the teachers. Once it dips below that threshold, it’s no longer viable to stay open. It’s got to be the most poorly thought out policy I’ve seen in a while. It’s actually self depleting.

[@andrewsmith78926]

@@Mark-kh1ny do you know how much on average it costs to put one kid through one year of private school? Do you the pecentage of kids that go to a private school?

[@markscript5746]

Another woke politician who is not listening

[@toxicsausage302]

Vote Reform and Trump ❤

[@ChrisVaughan-gj7ve]

Welcome to the next 5 years folks

[@andrewsmith78926]

or longer?

[@stephenclipper]

I’m not part of a lobby group, just a parent (carpenter) struggling to keep his child in private school because he was so so badly let down by state school. He will be having to go back to state school because 20% on top of the recent increases due to cost of living, will just make it impossible to afford

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

he will be amongst monkeys then .. . . !!

[@GLENN999-z3q]

Labour could not answer the simple question where pupils will be put to educate them.. E C you are pathetic

[@bonnyvonny5182]

The trouble with the front bench of labour is they are all multi millionaires and have no clue how some working class people go without just to send their kids to private school to giveth a better life they keep going on about working families but in truth they have no idea what it's like so fed up with rich people pretending to be like us

[@Mark-kh1ny]

I don’t think you’re getting it Cooper. Let me go through it for you slowly. A: You’ll need more than 6,500 teachers as that only goes towards fixing the current problem and it’s 3/4 of a teacher per school. You’re class sizes are about to grow. 50% of my daughters class alone have been talking between themselves about leaving if this comes in. If that’s representative, we’re all up the creek! B: The more parents that leave, the less VAT you’ll have coming in. Surly one of you must have a calculator?!? That means you’ve got to do more with less?!? Plus some schools are physically full, they need additional space, not just teachers. What a short sighted policy. “We believe in fairness” so we’re just going to uproot a load of kids and disrupt their education…. Of all the people not paying their way in this country, *WE’RE NOT IT*

[@andrewsmith78926]

so you pay ~£15k a year per kid right? So with VAT it will be ~£18k. so you think half of pupils will leave?

[@forestranger312]

Sorry but no parent who sends their children to private schools could be considered ordinary. They are in a higher income bracket and far more privileged than ordinary families who have little choice but to send their children to state schools.

[@mikaq19]

Here’s what she won’t say. Labour are going to stuff another 10-20 pupils into already over crowded classrooms.

[@dawnsaunders574]

That's the 2nd Labour person this wkend that waffles and can't answer a simple question. Taxing pensioners was the first 😂

[@SueRose-z3j]

Yvette cooper i ham appauled at your ansers you have not ansed any question yove been asked do you think you can get in with anseres like that hope you come canversing were we live i can sertanly give you some ansrers not serprized you did nothing for ponty hospital kerping open and also the last mine in Knottingley i voted labour all my life never againe will i vote for you hope alot more think the same in pontefract

[@tmartin1264]

Utterly pathetic. Labour is hopeless and chaotic.

[@grahammitchell8524]

Just the suggestion of Diane Abbott in the house of lords shows exactly why the UK has declined significantly. Please God....send us our own Geert Wilders.

[@gerardredfern7339]

We had Nigel fararge. Had he's let us down despite what he says!

[@NigelButton]

The House of Lords needs abolished

[@stephenford2758]

Private health care and private education should be taxed out of existence

[@markrichardson8604]

You could save a lot of money by closing the border. People don't want to be teachers because working for a council is not an attractive proposition. Mental health problems are derived from wokery and people not being allowed to learn the truth. Telling kids that men can have babies and all of this nonsense is the problem.

[@bidencheated7758]

Free Trump

[@colinwilson3750]

Surely if students are outside of the state education system then that is saving the state money. Taxing education seems a bit backwards. So the likelihood is Labour will get less vat than they think plus they will have to pay for the state to educate these students that leave private education.

[@redroutemaster]

I DO NOT CONSENT. LIES LIES AND DAMNED LIES. How do you know when a politician is lying? Their mouth moves.

[@clairebainborough7088]

Ffs 🙄😆😂🤣

[@tonyfraser1749]

It's the policy of envy, Liebour do it all the time playing on the empathy vote, hoping it resonates with the ordinary Man/woman making them evious that private school parents have more money than them and can afford a better education supposedly!!

[@ianHolmes-up2oc]

What utter nonsense

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@ianHolmes-up2oc Yes you do have a tendency to talk rubbish!!!

[@ianHolmes-up2oc]

What utter crap and it is labour not liebour

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@ianHolmes-up2oc WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LEARN HOW TO SPELL, IT IS NOT LABOUR, IT IS LIE---BOUR

[@rosequincey2835]

She never answers the questions

[@antoniopalmero4063]

So bloody frustrating 😡🤬 , how can she talk so much and say nothing ! .

[@ovwataumukoro895]

She will never answer your question.

[@jonlebono2147]

Why should all charities not pay VAT? in many cases , donations go to paying high salaries for executives and woke training. They should have raised the VAT threshold for private schools to 200k so smaller organisations are not affected.

[@chrismoss8409]

Thats true , the way it should be done is a bit at a time that way you build it into the system and they do not get hit all at once

[@Clodhopping]

I know very 'ordinary' people in my very working class area who've scrimped and saved to send their kids to private schools - just to be able to remove them from the underperforming local comprehensive schools and to avoid the drug, knife and bullying culture. These are not upper-class high earners, just normal folk wanting to help their children. The kids are doing great and getting good grades. I also know teachers who are getting out of education because of violent kids and a system that doesn't back classroom discipline. Teachers are frightened of reprisals - physical or legal. Labour's wokeism would just fast-forward that sense of entitlement to be disruptive. Yvette doesn't need to offer answers as Labour thinks the next election is a shoo in. However, they seem to overlook that when people hate the Tories, it does not mean people love Labour - just there's no realistic choice. They'll spend 5 years saying their hands are tied because of the mess the Tories left. It'll be the same ineptitude and cronyism only with a red rosette. Tory governments implode through incompetence and arrogance, and Labour ones tear themselves apart in a militant-left v right-of-centre power struggle stoked up by the unions. Rinse and repeat every 4-5 years.

[@garymchiggins9598]

She answered nothing. God help us if this lot take power

[@NigelButton]

Yvette irritating beyond belief. Broken record!

[@NigelButton]

Yvette has been a Politician for far too long. She is an expert when it comes to evading questions.

[@rosequincey2835]

Why can't she does answer the question

[@Jay-gr9ij]

She doesn't know

[@Alex-mj5dv]

Any policy based solely upon the politics of envy will cause utter dismay.. mainly to those it espouses to aid the most.

[@martynwright2519]

Politics of envy

[@Just..........33]

We are playing this MP a lot of money 💰 each year 😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@samhodgins9804]

No answers blame the lobbyists but not answer the question and people think Labour are going to bring positive change. Vote Reform UK

[@JohnBrennan-pt9kg]

She would be happy with unlimited migration so long as there are votes in it for her

[@SW-tw8rf]

The fuss about this is outrageous. Don't have kids if you can't afford them to the lifestyle you want. That's what this channel say for a two child limit for benefits. When it's hungry and cold kids and families.

[@stequality]

Imagine voting for people cant answer a question straight, oh wait

[@briankerrison8504]

I don’t think ppl realise how fcking bad things have got in this nation.. 🙄🙄🙄🥴🥴😎😎

[@AW12-W]

If you think things are bad now - wait until you see the devastation Labour will unleash. See: Bradford, bankrupt Birmingham + Wales.

[@inglepropnoosegarm7801]

Everything will be better under labour, for those who are not British.

[@elainecartwright4496]

If her lips are moving she's liaring

[@lockymonster]

They all created the problems then produced solutions to the problems they created, but haven't taken a pay cut to fund it, tax borrow spend, bankruptcy.

[@campervannation9309]

Punishing poorer parents ....the wealthy wont need to worry about this ......i know were are fed up with Sumack but labour will be a nightmare 😊

[@stevehorner9004]

The OLDE Blairite COOPER AT IT AGAIN

[@susanhendren8079]

Why can't these m p give a straight full truthful answer,they skirt around every question put to them.Labour started all this open borders under Tony Blair and the conservatives just carried on from them,this c country is in dire straight,and the people want answers

[@fatphoca5009]

Simple reason, they have no answer. They can't actually answer the question so they don't want to actually discuss the question or they come u stuck immediately. They just repeat parrot fashion pre arranged statements that have nothing to do with the question.

[@roberthall8473]

Just like every other Labour politician no answers, no meat on the bone, no facts no figures.

[@MWB_logic_reason_respect]

..'like everybody else does' no other country in EU taxes education. Financial services, Optician, health care, gambling are not subject to VAT. My child is maybe leaving private because of this and there are no school places in this ara for year 8. So where do want him to go? £8000 per head I am saving you and taxes on a school place that doesn't exist. (32 in class! as opposed to 15!!!) Sort your own house first! This would raise peanut dust!

[@chosenone8454]

Can't answer won't answer keeping their cards close to their chest which suggests a handful of jokers so no change there then as predicted

[@marybrookbanks7896]

Waste Of Time.Waste of A Vote.

[@JohnBrennan-pt9kg]

She has exposed her self as a professional liar

[@glynsmith4590]

But if you can't afford the VAT surely the Tory line would be 'get a better job'!!!!!

[@franniebob7269]

Professional Liar representing Liebour.

[@iancampbell3202]

Just another non answer from a very dishonest politician

[@rinaldoselvanathan4193]

goodbye to a lot of private schools then.

[@andrewsmith78926]

... why? 20% will have to be paid ect. Lots of families will be able to afford that, or they'll have to cut cost or reduce profits, like any private business

[@rinaldoselvanathan4193]

@@andrewsmith78926 many families aren't that rich...already making lots of sacrifice / working harder just to get kids into lower cost private schools.....parents will end up picking cost hikes for this....will be surprised if that many private schools can actually make measures to keep afloat if parents start move their kids back to state if plan goes ahead. ...its assuming there are enough wealthy families to take their places if others do move out.

[@maggiekirwan9454]

She can't even answer the question, what a lier

[@LeslieMartin-f2z]

Ordinary parents can’t afford to send their children to private school in the first place so let’s not pretend that adding vat is going to be more of a hardship than it is for any other goods or services that it’s placed on.

[@mollymouse4900]

If everybody refused to vote, these clowns would be screwed !

[@boota1979]

@mollymouse4900 It's the only power we have, sadly many people simply don't understand.

[@tonyfraser1749]

Oh look not only the Tory's are to blame for net migration, but also the OBR to, and Liebour has supported some net migration proposals??? But what she's not saying is Liebour have opposed around 130 proposals on illegal migration!! Is it any wonder that MP's get threatened sometimes and they worry about their safety?? If they bothered at least once to be truthful with the nation they might just get some respect!!

[@Stephanie-wf6xr]

WOW they are in uproar over tuition fees, because it affects them. Nana head nearly blew up, because it affects her and her sprogs.😂😂

[@AndyPerry1972]

And this is what we are going to end up with!

[@DavidMorris-k4f]

heeeeelllllppppppppp this is going to be bad for us

[@pauljohncross]

Huge numbers of NHS consultants put their children through private education. Looking forward to the number of hours that they work in the private sector increasing. #lawofunintendedconsequences

[@sunshine10005]

We follow government policy

[@Differentbias]

Someone will punish someone, it's a norm.Tories punished working class and disabled FYI.

[@joycegibbs5267]

the Tories are history, they're gone. We're talking about this new government who will be sooo different, right ?