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Post by simple on May 19, 2023 16:05:51 GMT
Announced just in time to spoil the start of the weekend, the Johnson's are having another kid because more of that cunt's offspring is what the world needs. He’s got some powerful spunk I’ll give him that much. |
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Post by Vortex on May 19, 2023 16:14:56 GMT
That's what the pigs head ceremony is for.
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Post by knighty on May 19, 2023 16:17:55 GMT
As someone who does send his kids to a private school (wife got an appointment, sent the boys along and got 1 x 100% and 1 x 50% scholarship), I would still say they dont deserve a VAT break.
And no, I don’t think they are generally worth it for the tuition, as far as I know (know a teacher at the school, and my wife is a teacher in a state school), the actual quality of teaching is worse, or they at least work less It’s just that it is balanced out and more by only having 15 kids to a class and the facilities available.
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Post by technoish on May 19, 2023 16:45:06 GMT
I basically cycle past BoJo's house on my way to school drop-off :/
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Post by Tomo on May 19, 2023 19:29:21 GMT
Announced just in time to spoil the start of the weekend, the Johnson's are having another kid because more of that cunt's offspring is what the world needs. Just mad. Feel like I would get pregnant if I shook hands with him. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2023 21:52:53 GMT
I'm with Palpatine on this one.
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Post by askew on May 19, 2023 22:13:45 GMT
The Tories are keen to birth more kids. Boris and Carrie: “we’re doing our part”
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 20, 2023 5:38:37 GMT
Isn't the basic VAT idea that essentials are VAT free, but luxuries aren't?
So I guess the question is whether a private school is essential.
Given that there are public alternatives, I'd say not.
Or make them VAT free, but add a 20% surcharge that is ringfenced to be spent on state education.
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Post by knighty on May 20, 2023 6:56:30 GMT
I mean kind of, but then again cakes are VAT free, and I don’t think they’d be considered an essential…
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Post by simple on May 20, 2023 6:57:53 GMT
Sounds like someone is in the pocket of Big Biscuit
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 20, 2023 9:00:12 GMT
I mean kind of, but then again cakes are VAT free, and I don’t think they’d be considered an essential… When did that happen?
I thought centuries of legal precedent were based on the idea that biscuits were essentials, but cakes were luxuries.
And that Jaffa Cakes were biscuits, and definitely not cakes.
Bloody tories...
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Post by Whizzo on May 20, 2023 9:24:58 GMT
Calling Jaffa Cakes biscuits on the frickin' Eurogamer exiles forum should be a capital offence.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 20, 2023 9:35:13 GMT
Legally, they're biscuits though.
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Post by knighty on May 20, 2023 9:38:55 GMT
I don’t think that’s true. They are legally caked. Hence no VAT.
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Post by Whizzo on May 20, 2023 9:42:26 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 20, 2023 9:46:01 GMT
Maybe i had it backwards, so does that mean Biscuits are luxuries and are taxed??? That seems wrong.
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Oh, it's the chocolate on the biscuits that makes them a luxury.
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Post by Leolian'sBro on May 20, 2023 10:38:39 GMT
I don’t think that’s true. They are legally caked. Hence no VAT. It’s the other way around. Edit - wait, no it isn’t. I’m going back to bed. |
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Post by Danno on May 20, 2023 12:03:07 GMT
Cakes - harden when stale
Biscuits - soften when stale
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Post by Lizard on May 20, 2023 12:29:35 GMT
Right, fuck it. Biscuits > cakes
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Post by Dougs on May 20, 2023 13:38:40 GMT
It's quite sad that I genuinely found that interesting. |
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Post by Resident Knievel on May 20, 2023 15:05:57 GMT
I think it's sad not to find it interesting
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Post by Reviewer on May 20, 2023 15:20:53 GMT
They proved it in court by baking a massive Jaffa Cake and then cutting a slice, no one could argue that it seemed to be a cake.
Cakes not being taxed but biscuits are is stupid but then having a tax on foods is pretty stupid anyway, unless it applied to anything processed to subsidise actual food.
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Post by minimatt on May 20, 2023 18:14:59 GMT
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Post by Whizzo on May 20, 2023 18:28:16 GMT
That was the speeding fine she asked if she could claim back on expenses as it happened while she was campaigning.
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Post by simple on May 20, 2023 22:06:48 GMT
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Post by elstoof on May 21, 2023 5:25:17 GMT
I hope she’s made to quit for a week again
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Post by peekconfusion on May 21, 2023 7:47:58 GMT
Impressive how she was so desperate to save face, she just took the points. What a shame it all came out anyway eh?
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 21, 2023 8:15:44 GMT
It seems less about saving face and more being absolutely desperate to not interact with the great unwashed
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Post by nexus6 on May 21, 2023 8:27:10 GMT
Can’t have common people looking at you FFS
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Post by Resident Knievel on May 21, 2023 8:45:14 GMT
Martin Lewis concisely makes the obvious point that privatisation without competition is a disaster for consumers, Tory MP and Laura Kuensburg talk over him and hand wave the point away.
Sunday Politics in a nutshell.
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