Acquiescing to Farage on the basis of him being a lesser evil is the very definition of defeatism.
In any event, "we" are not bringing down Farage - he's done it to himself. Lilico appears to be suggesting that we just ignore the huge sums of money and the dodgy sources.
The glaring thing to any lanyarder who has ever done a corporate compliance course, indeed to any brickie who has ever filled in a VAT form is just how crushingly entry level / 101 this all is. It's like stuff simply doesn't apply.
I mean, the parliamentary system that allows a hell of a lot on expenses, practical gifts and a level of security / VIP separation is borderline asking for trouble already, and the Farage stuff just blows even that system to smithereens.
Love of money, root of all evil and all that. Not seeking to create a good life using money as a means to an end. But treating it as a fetish object, a way of keeping score in life. Because that thirst can never be quenched.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 2m Key thing with Farage’s 2.00 pm statement is does he actually address the issues relating to his payments and financial relationships. Or is it just more street theatre.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Link to the Admissions Data
From Official DOE site but hey you know best with you preconceived thoughts
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Ukraine claims to have hit 10 Russian ships in the Sea of Azov overnight. 8 fuel tankers, 1 cargo ship and a ferry. At least some of them were successful enough to be picked up by the NASA FIRMS system (that's normally used for tracking forest fires). The operation to isolate Crimea continues.
The Berlin Airlift started just over 78 years ago, and I wonder whether a Russian attempt to do something similar is in the near future.
Airlifts only tend to work when your cargo planes aren’t being shot at (eg Stalingrad v Berlin). I imagine that though Ukraine might not contest a retreat from Crimea, air transports to sustain occupation would be very much fair game.
Russia is still operating military fixed-wing aviation out of Crimean airbases, so I'd guess the main problems would be a general lack of aviation fuel (due to the ongoing attacks on oil refineries), lack of spare parts for the aircraft, and drones attacking aircraft on the ground.
I wouldn't expect it to work, but if the supply situation by land and sea continues to deteriorate they will very likely make the attempt.
You also need a huge airlift capability to do much resupply. And even then that has serious limits - replacing land/sea shipping is a a vast task.
Russia’s fleet of military cargo aircraft is aging and has serious availability issues.
How many of the residents of Crimea are likely to be sympathetic to the Russian and Ukrainian causes? My, admittedly poor, understanding is that Crimea isn't particularly Ukrainian.
This is a complicated question, complicated further by Russian attempts since 2014 to Russify the territory by encouraging Russians to move there and being hostile to the Crimean Tartars.
I would say that, among the population who were resident in 2013, they are likely to be much more pro-Ukrainian than they were before the Russian seizure in 2014, but a lot of current residents were not living in Crimea at that time.
Thanks; thought it wasn't simple. Are Crimean Tartars Russian (your post suggests not), Ukrainian, or 'plague on both your houses' Tartars?
And more importantly why is their sauce so good with fish!
LOL. I didn't realise, until I spent the best part of an hour reading the Wikipedia entry on the history of the Crimea, it's inhabitants and their language that the 'ethnic' name was Tatar! Very, very complex, but typical of Eastern Europe and (far) Western Asia.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
Acquiescing to Farage on the basis of him being a lesser evil is the very definition of defeatism.
In any event, "we" are not bringing down Farage - he's done it to himself. Lilico appears to be suggesting that we just ignore the huge sums of money and the dodgy sources.
The glaring thing to any lanyarder who has ever done a corporate compliance course, indeed to any brickie who has ever filled in a VAT form is just how crushingly entry level / 101 this all is. It's like stuff simply doesn't apply.
I mean, the parliamentary system that allows a hell of a lot on expenses, practical gifts and a level of security / VIP separation is borderline asking for trouble already, and the Farage stuff just blows even that system to smithereens.
Love of money, root of all evil and all that. Not seeking to create a good life using money as a means to an end. But treating it as a fetish object, a way of keeping score in life. Because that thirst can never be quenched.
From the expenses scandal - MPs of all parties were angry and horrified by the idea of having to provide receipts for everything they expensed.
It’s part of the #Nu10K thinking - being above such rules and laws is seen as part of the evidence of your privilege. Receipts and £50 limits on gifts are signs of being a Prole.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
Rhdal school in Colwyn Bay may benefit and they do have a large staff
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Dont forget Oakleigh in Swansea and St Clare's in Porthcawl also owned by the same Chinese owners Galaxy Global Education Group, have also closed
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Link to the Admissions Data
From Official DOE site but hey you know best with you preconceived thoughts
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Link to the Admissions Data
From Official DOE site but hey you know best with you preconceived thoughts
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Dont forget Oakleigh in Swansea and St Clare's in Porthcawl also owned by the same Chinese owners Galaxy Global Education Group, have also closed
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Dont forget Oakleigh in Swansea and St Clare's in Porthcawl also owned by the same Chinese owners Galaxy Global Education Group, have also closed
Good news for Education equality
Unfortunately it is nothing of the kind
All this does is make the remaining public schools more elite and for the wealthy
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
That's a perfectly normal ratio actually for a private school, as long as we're talking staff not teachers. About 30-40 would be teaching staff, then you have maintenance, admin, if there's a nursery that ups the figure considerably, any specialist boarding staff, often separate bus/coach drivers.
Roughly you would expect 3-4 pupils for every one member of staff overall. In a mainstream style setting. More of course if it was big on SEND.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Dont forget Oakleigh in Swansea and St Clare's in Porthcawl also owned by the same Chinese owners Galaxy Global Education Group, have also closed
Good news for Education equality
Suspect it's more to do with rampant capitalism if schools are sitting on land assets. Private Equity would have securitised land assets on a sale and leaseback by now. Wonder if there is something like that in the background.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
That's a perfectly normal ratio actually for a private school, as long as we're talking staff not teachers. About 30-40 would be teaching staff, then you have maintenance, admin, if there's a nursery that ups the figure considerably, any specialist boarding staff, often separate bus/coach drivers.
Roughly you would expect 3-4 pupils for every one member of staff overall. In a mainstream style setting. More of course if it was big on SEND.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Dont forget Oakleigh in Swansea and St Clare's in Porthcawl also owned by the same Chinese owners Galaxy Global Education Group, have also closed
Good news for Education equality
Suspect it's more to do with rampant capitalism if schools are sitting on land assets. Private Equity would have securitised land assets on a sale and leaseback by now. Wonder if there is something like that in the background.
That's what appears to have happened at Abbotsholme, although they appear to have sold the land and liquidated the school even before the ink was dry on the transfers (literally).
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
They confess they have no real idea though.
The fact that it is pre-recorded indicates that he doesn't have the confidence to do it live.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
That's a perfectly normal ratio actually for a private school, as long as we're talking staff not teachers. About 30-40 would be teaching staff, then you have maintenance, admin, if there's a nursery that ups the figure considerably, any specialist boarding staff, often separate bus/coach drivers.
Roughly you would expect 3-4 pupils for every one member of staff overall. In a mainstream style setting. More of course if it was big on SEND.
Fair enough. Different world, though, isn't it?
It is.
If state schools had similar ratios I suspect there would be very few private schools.
And rather fewer issues around SEND.
And far fewer issues with teacher retention/recruitment or reluctance to work longer days.
This would of course be incredibly upsetting to left wing nut jobs who would have to find some other target for their Two Minutes' Hate.
Le Pen ineligible to hold public office for 45 months
According to be BBC, because 30 months of that is suspended, she can actually run (but with ankle tag). Previously she has said she wouldn't run if she had an ankle tag because it would restrict her ability to campaign properly, but will (like Farage) make an announcement later today.
Le Pen ineligible to hold public office for 45 months
According to be BBC, because 30 months of that is suspended, she can actually run (but with ankle tag). Previously she has said she wouldn't run if she had an ankle tag, but will (like Farage) make an announcement later today.
It would be a bloody nuisance, all that bumping up and down as she went.
Now if she were British, and could stand, that problem resolves itself.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
They confess they have no real idea though.
The fact that it is pre-recorded indicates that he doesn't have the confidence to do it live.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
They confess they have no real idea though.
The fact that it is pre-recorded indicates that he doesn't have the confidence to do it live.
Probably already left the country.
Well, if Tice is taking over that means a Tristram gets to try.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
They confess they have no real idea though.
The fact that it is pre-recorded indicates that he doesn't have the confidence to do it live.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
That's a perfectly normal ratio actually for a private school, as long as we're talking staff not teachers. About 30-40 would be teaching staff, then you have maintenance, admin, if there's a nursery that ups the figure considerably, any specialist boarding staff, often separate bus/coach drivers.
Roughly you would expect 3-4 pupils for every one member of staff overall. In a mainstream style setting. More of course if it was big on SEND.
Fair enough. Different world, though, isn't it?
It is.
If state schools had similar ratios I suspect there would be very few private schools.
And rather fewer issues around SEND.
And far fewer issues with teacher retention/recruitment or reluctance to work longer days.
This would of course be incredibly upsetting to left wing nut jobs who would have to find some other target for their Two Minutes' Hate.
Not cheap, even if it's worthwhile.
The other problem would be needing twice as many classrooms PDQ. Which is why primaries went for teacher + TA with classes of 30.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
An interesting access case that hit the national media this morning.
TLDR: A Cornwall "hotel on a headland" owner wanting to do a development closed a path used by the public to access the beach since the 19C by putting an iron gate and shuttering across it. There was an imbroglio involving the then Liberal MP around 1900. There is no alternative access afaics.
The solution would have been to claim it as a Public Right of Way decades ago, or to have had it made a condition of his Planning Permission, as these are more difficult to protect later.
We thought it would be a right of way, people would have right of access. Clearly not.
I think it is fairly obvious what the developer wants - by blocking the path to a beach which is only accessible otherwise at low tide he gets his customers a semi-private beach which could double the value of the properties he is building. That potential extra profit could make it quite difficult to resolve.
The rights of way and so on here is even more of a rabbit hole than the Stand-on-the-Green one we were discussing the other day where most people disagreed with my "letter of the law and the national guidance, and work the pavement drinking around that" line (fair enough - we are here to disagree).
There are any number of PROWs which are not recorded on the Definitive Maps since the recording process in the 1950s after the 1949 Act was chaotic and incomplete to different degrees in different places, and that absence does not necessarily mean that it does not exist. And unrecognised ones can be recorded. Here they could go for "historic evidence of usage" or for "20 years proven unopposed usage").
There was also the imbroglio around 1900, where a committee was set up to manage public access. The evidence of that committee could be argued either side - either it was a PROW, or it was to manage access by permission (which is a right withdrawable at will by the landowner, who would argue that he has withdrawn it).
But I don't think the developer knows his stuff in detail - to my eye he has made admissions that may already have sunk his case.
I have a bit of knowledge of the law here from being on the receiving end of a not dissimilar situation a couple of years back.
Specifically, I don't think the time limit for claims under the rights of way legislation is yet in operation. If so there is nothing to stop it being retrospectively designated as a Public Right of Way providing that it can be evidenced to have been used as such up to the point where the owner first contested its use by the public. eg. If they put up a notice stating "no public access" 5 years ago you would have to find lots of witnesses that used the path 6 years ago.
That was a Theresa Coffey Ministerial fiat if I recall, amongst other things. It is complicated, and affected "historic evidence" claims but not I think "20 years unopposed use" claims.
The deadline was abolished by the current Government - but I am not totally over the detail, or what is left standing of the stakeholder-negotiated arrangements from the Deregulation Act 2016.
I'm slightly front-foot, and I think that anything called a "Roman Road" obviously has 20 years use by Romans so they should all be public footpaths, and Bridleways if the Romans used them for horses! Ideally, we would gets something like the Scottish arrangement, but M'Lud's would have a fit.
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees from the start of 2025. They had previously been exempt from the tax. Newly published admissions data for England showed there had been no influx towards state schools since then.
The DfE said that VAT on private school fees was raising more than had been initially forecast, and is now likely to bring in £1.8bn annually by 2029-30.
Great News for the 94% that the 6% are paying VAT for the privilege of privilege
Leaving aside the fact that (even in the absence of a link) Bridget Phillipson is a fluent liar with the intellectual capacity of a donkey and so are the civil servants of the DfE, we need a few caveats:
1) Where is the data from and which data point is it up to? If it only goes to the 6th April it's more useless than Amanda Spielman.
2) Have they checked to see if it shows any excess outflow at the change of key stage?
3) Have they adjusted by region to show whether or not a shift is being masked by demographic decline?
All the figures I have seen show that the exodus is about bang in the middle of the two year forecast.
I'd also add that since these utter loons propose to spank any money on disastrous failed projects including expanding academy chains and throttling teacher training further by diverting yet more money to Teach First, rather than by getting serious by cutting class sizes, more money isn't going to help in any meaningful way even if it materialises.
Also tell that to Ruthin and Bangor schools that closed last friday with 350 children in tears, over 100 teachers with lost jobs, and the DWP having to intervene in an attempt to find alternate employers
Though as someone (eek?) has pointed out, a simpler possibly is the owners of these sites have concluded that there's more profit to be made more easily selling the sites for redevelopment. Rough end of capitalism and all that. VAT may be the justification without being the reason.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
That's a perfectly normal ratio actually for a private school, as long as we're talking staff not teachers. About 30-40 would be teaching staff, then you have maintenance, admin, if there's a nursery that ups the figure considerably, any specialist boarding staff, often separate bus/coach drivers.
Roughly you would expect 3-4 pupils for every one member of staff overall. In a mainstream style setting. More of course if it was big on SEND.
Fair enough. Different world, though, isn't it?
It is.
If state schools had similar ratios I suspect there would be very few private schools.
And rather fewer issues around SEND.
And far fewer issues with teacher retention/recruitment or reluctance to work longer days.
This would of course be incredibly upsetting to left wing nut jobs who would have to find some other target for their Two Minutes' Hate.
Not cheap, even if it's worthwhile.
The other problem would be needing twice as many classrooms PDQ. Which is why primaries went for teacher + TA with classes of 30.
I don't actually think that would be a problem. Most schools have spare classrooms, especially in the areas you would see most benefit, i.e. the inner cities. And there are schools that were closed and could conceivably be recommissioned.
The real issue is the government won't pay for it because they don't care about good education, only cheap education that conforms to whatever random ideology is in vogue this week.
Le Pen ineligible to hold public office for 45 months
Le Pen and Farage on the same day?
Could we really be that lucky?
According to the BBC the reduction in sentence is such that she is free to run but she has been put on a tag for a year and has previously said she will not campaign wearing a tag because of the reporting requirements that go with it. She is apparently announcing her decision about what she is going to do tonight.
So, the court will say that they did not stop her running but she will say that the conditions imposed made running impossible. Something for everyone, really.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
An interesting access case that hit the national media this morning.
TLDR: A Cornwall "hotel on a headland" owner wanting to do a development closed a path used by the public to access the beach since the 19C by putting an iron gate and shuttering across it. There was an imbroglio involving the then Liberal MP around 1900. There is no alternative access afaics.
The solution would have been to claim it as a Public Right of Way decades ago, or to have had it made a condition of his Planning Permission, as these are more difficult to protect later.
We thought it would be a right of way, people would have right of access. Clearly not.
I think it is fairly obvious what the developer wants - by blocking the path to a beach which is only accessible otherwise at low tide he gets his customers a semi-private beach which could double the value of the properties he is building. That potential extra profit could make it quite difficult to resolve.
The rights of way and so on here is even more of a rabbit hole than the Stand-on-the-Green one we were discussing the other day where most people disagreed with my "letter of the law and the national guidance, and work the pavement drinking around that" line (fair enough - we are here to disagree).
There are any number of PROWs which are not recorded on the Definitive Maps since the recording process in the 1950s after the 1949 Act was chaotic and incomplete to different degrees in different places, and that absence does not necessarily mean that it does not exist. And unrecognised ones can be recorded. Here they could go for "historic evidence of usage" or for "20 years proven unopposed usage").
There was also the imbroglio around 1900, where a committee was set up to manage public access. The evidence of that committee could be argued either side - either it was a PROW, or it was to manage access by permission (which is a right withdrawable at will by the landowner, who would argue that he has withdrawn it).
But I don't think the developer knows his stuff in detail - to my eye he has made admissions that may already have sunk his case.
I have a bit of knowledge of the law here from being on the receiving end of a not dissimilar situation a couple of years back.
Specifically, I don't think the time limit for claims under the rights of way legislation is yet in operation. If so there is nothing to stop it being retrospectively designated as a Public Right of Way providing that it can be evidenced to have been used as such up to the point where the owner first contested its use by the public. eg. If they put up a notice stating "no public access" 5 years ago you would have to find lots of witnesses that used the path 6 years ago.
That was a Theresa Coffey Ministerial fiat if I recall, amongst other things. It is complicated, and affected "historic evidence" claims but not I think "20 years unopposed use" claims.
The deadline was abolished by the current Government - but I am not totally over the detail, or what is left standing of the stakeholder-negotiated arrangements from the Deregulation Act 2016.
I'm slightly front-foot, and I think that anything called a "Roman Road" obviously has 20 years use by Romans so they should all be public footpaths, and Bridleways if the Romans used them for horses! Ideally, we would gets something like the Scottish arrangement, but M'Lud's would have a fit.
I was surprised to read that you can have private beaches in the UK. For us the crown owned the foreshore from high to low tide, so the whole of the beaches, and they transferred them to the people of Jersey about ten years ago. I would have presumed (wrongly clearly) that the crown owned the shoreline in the uk too.
Restore Britain will deport foreign nationals living in our country who are incapable of speaking English.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
There is no fucking way that 1 in 20 beer soaked, Clarkson bellied British expats in the Gulf speak Arabic, whether MSA or dialect, to any functional level.
Acquiescing to Farage on the basis of him being a lesser evil is the very definition of defeatism.
In any event, "we" are not bringing down Farage - he's done it to himself. Lilico appears to be suggesting that we just ignore the huge sums of money and the dodgy sources.
The glaring thing to any lanyarder who has ever done a corporate compliance course, indeed to any brickie who has ever filled in a VAT form is just how crushingly entry level / 101 this all is. It's like stuff simply doesn't apply.
I mean, the parliamentary system that allows a hell of a lot on expenses, practical gifts and a level of security / VIP separation is borderline asking for trouble already, and the Farage stuff just blows even that system to smithereens.
Love of money, root of all evil and all that. Not seeking to create a good life using money as a means to an end. But treating it as a fetish object, a way of keeping score in life. Because that thirst can never be quenched.
From the expenses scandal - MPs of all parties were angry and horrified by the idea of having to provide receipts for everything they expensed.
It’s part of the #Nu10K thinking - being above such rules and laws is seen as part of the evidence of your privilege. Receipts and £50 limits on gifts are signs of being a Prole.
I'm nowhere near the 100K, let alone the 10K, but I have always found having to provide receipts for every expense incredibly irritating, and the presumption that I was fiddling the system unless I could prove otherwise was insulting.
Restore Britain will deport foreign nationals living in our country who are incapable of speaking English.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
From the MAGA/American First POV.
“You don’t have illegal aliens having birthright anchor babies if illegal aliens aren’t in the country,” he told me. “Deporting the illegal alien parents of anchor babies — and then they can take their kid home with them.
So a latter day Kemi would have their parents deported and the whole family (a.k.a. dependents) go home. You can see this sort of thread in most right wing party thinking. But to quote Gordon Brown - it started in America.
Restore Britain will deport foreign nationals living in our country who are incapable of speaking English.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
There is no fucking way that 1 in 20 beer soaked, Clarkson bellied British expats in the Gulf speak Arabic, whether MSA or dialect, to any functional level.
Not every Brit in the Gulf meets your desciption. For starters, there will be plenty of people who born in UK or have British citizenship who are dispora of Arabic speaking countries and moved to the Gulf for exactly the reason they can navigate between English and Arabic and so very employable professionals.
Re Ex-pats in Spain. Of all the foreign languages to learn, Spanish has to be one of the easiest to gain a reasonable level of fluency. Pronunication is reasonably easy (a lot easier than Portuguese) and there is no really tricky grammer (looking at you German) or different character set (Eastern European / Asian languages).
An interesting access case that hit the national media this morning.
TLDR: A Cornwall "hotel on a headland" owner wanting to do a development closed a path used by the public to access the beach since the 19C by putting an iron gate and shuttering across it. There was an imbroglio involving the then Liberal MP around 1900. There is no alternative access afaics.
The solution would have been to claim it as a Public Right of Way decades ago, or to have had it made a condition of his Planning Permission, as these are more difficult to protect later.
We thought it would be a right of way, people would have right of access. Clearly not.
I think it is fairly obvious what the developer wants - by blocking the path to a beach which is only accessible otherwise at low tide he gets his customers a semi-private beach which could double the value of the properties he is building. That potential extra profit could make it quite difficult to resolve.
The rights of way and so on here is even more of a rabbit hole than the Stand-on-the-Green one we were discussing the other day where most people disagreed with my "letter of the law and the national guidance, and work the pavement drinking around that" line (fair enough - we are here to disagree).
There are any number of PROWs which are not recorded on the Definitive Maps since the recording process in the 1950s after the 1949 Act was chaotic and incomplete to different degrees in different places, and that absence does not necessarily mean that it does not exist. And unrecognised ones can be recorded. Here they could go for "historic evidence of usage" or for "20 years proven unopposed usage").
There was also the imbroglio around 1900, where a committee was set up to manage public access. The evidence of that committee could be argued either side - either it was a PROW, or it was to manage access by permission (which is a right withdrawable at will by the landowner, who would argue that he has withdrawn it).
But I don't think the developer knows his stuff in detail - to my eye he has made admissions that may already have sunk his case.
I have a bit of knowledge of the law here from being on the receiving end of a not dissimilar situation a couple of years back.
Specifically, I don't think the time limit for claims under the rights of way legislation is yet in operation. If so there is nothing to stop it being retrospectively designated as a Public Right of Way providing that it can be evidenced to have been used as such up to the point where the owner first contested its use by the public. eg. If they put up a notice stating "no public access" 5 years ago you would have to find lots of witnesses that used the path 6 years ago.
That was a Theresa Coffey Ministerial fiat if I recall, amongst other things. It is complicated, and affected "historic evidence" claims but not I think "20 years unopposed use" claims.
The deadline was abolished by the current Government - but I am not totally over the detail, or what is left standing of the stakeholder-negotiated arrangements from the Deregulation Act 2016.
I'm slightly front-foot, and I think that anything called a "Roman Road" obviously has 20 years use by Romans so they should all be public footpaths, and Bridleways if the Romans used them for horses! Ideally, we would gets something like the Scottish arrangement, but M'Lud's would have a fit.
I was surprised to read that you can have private beaches in the UK. For us the crown owned the foreshore from high to low tide, so the whole of the beaches, and they transferred them to the people of Jersey about ten years ago. I would have presumed (wrongly clearly) that the crown owned the shoreline in the uk too.
That's the case in Ireland - the State owns everything between high and low tide - but that doesn't guarantee access. If a landowner owns all the land that provides access to a beach then your only way to get access to the publicly-owned beach is from the sea.
My wife's family did this a couple of times when her Dad's boats were still seaworthy, swimming to the beach from the boat, but landowners aren't happy about it.
That's a good thought. Would the other parties step down? Probably not the Tories anyway, but it would be doing us all a public service if a Martin Bell equivalent came forward. First Makerfield and then, just possibly, Clacton...
I think we might see more foot-soldiers for that candidate than he would have any idea what to do with!
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
Guardian speculating he will just announce he is taking a temporary break as exhausted/health issue and Tice will be caretaker for a few months.
Farage has taken funding from a convicted criminal, including paying 3 staff to run his social media
As for Lab asking what Farages donors got in return, quite! I suppose its just coincidence that Lab has taken £ from super rich private Health donors & refused to introduce wealth taxes and has overseen a further increase in private health profiteering in NHS
Restore Britain will deport foreign nationals living in our country who are incapable of speaking English.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
There is no fucking way that 1 in 20 beer soaked, Clarkson bellied British expats in the Gulf speak Arabic, whether MSA or dialect, to any functional level.
Acquiescing to Farage on the basis of him being a lesser evil is the very definition of defeatism.
In any event, "we" are not bringing down Farage - he's done it to himself. Lilico appears to be suggesting that we just ignore the huge sums of money and the dodgy sources.
The glaring thing to any lanyarder who has ever done a corporate compliance course, indeed to any brickie who has ever filled in a VAT form is just how crushingly entry level / 101 this all is. It's like stuff simply doesn't apply.
I mean, the parliamentary system that allows a hell of a lot on expenses, practical gifts and a level of security / VIP separation is borderline asking for trouble already, and the Farage stuff just blows even that system to smithereens.
Love of money, root of all evil and all that. Not seeking to create a good life using money as a means to an end. But treating it as a fetish object, a way of keeping score in life. Because that thirst can never be quenched.
From the expenses scandal - MPs of all parties were angry and horrified by the idea of having to provide receipts for everything they expensed.
It’s part of the #Nu10K thinking - being above such rules and laws is seen as part of the evidence of your privilege. Receipts and £50 limits on gifts are signs of being a Prole.
I'm nowhere near the 100K, let alone the 10K, but I have always found having to provide receipts for every expense incredibly irritating, and the presumption that I was fiddling the system unless I could prove otherwise was insulting.
I never have. My view is if somebody else is providing the money it's fair enough I can prove what I spent it on. And so can they to their auditors (I still have to keep receipts for everything I buy for the business).
An interesting access case that hit the national media this morning.
TLDR: A Cornwall "hotel on a headland" owner wanting to do a development closed a path used by the public to access the beach since the 19C by putting an iron gate and shuttering across it. There was an imbroglio involving the then Liberal MP around 1900. There is no alternative access afaics.
The solution would have been to claim it as a Public Right of Way decades ago, or to have had it made a condition of his Planning Permission, as these are more difficult to protect later.
We thought it would be a right of way, people would have right of access. Clearly not.
I think it is fairly obvious what the developer wants - by blocking the path to a beach which is only accessible otherwise at low tide he gets his customers a semi-private beach which could double the value of the properties he is building. That potential extra profit could make it quite difficult to resolve.
The rights of way and so on here is even more of a rabbit hole than the Stand-on-the-Green one we were discussing the other day where most people disagreed with my "letter of the law and the national guidance, and work the pavement drinking around that" line (fair enough - we are here to disagree).
There are any number of PROWs which are not recorded on the Definitive Maps since the recording process in the 1950s after the 1949 Act was chaotic and incomplete to different degrees in different places, and that absence does not necessarily mean that it does not exist. And unrecognised ones can be recorded. Here they could go for "historic evidence of usage" or for "20 years proven unopposed usage").
There was also the imbroglio around 1900, where a committee was set up to manage public access. The evidence of that committee could be argued either side - either it was a PROW, or it was to manage access by permission (which is a right withdrawable at will by the landowner, who would argue that he has withdrawn it).
But I don't think the developer knows his stuff in detail - to my eye he has made admissions that may already have sunk his case.
I have a bit of knowledge of the law here from being on the receiving end of a not dissimilar situation a couple of years back.
Specifically, I don't think the time limit for claims under the rights of way legislation is yet in operation. If so there is nothing to stop it being retrospectively designated as a Public Right of Way providing that it can be evidenced to have been used as such up to the point where the owner first contested its use by the public. eg. If they put up a notice stating "no public access" 5 years ago you would have to find lots of witnesses that used the path 6 years ago.
That was a Theresa Coffey Ministerial fiat if I recall, amongst other things. It is complicated, and affected "historic evidence" claims but not I think "20 years unopposed use" claims.
The deadline was abolished by the current Government - but I am not totally over the detail, or what is left standing of the stakeholder-negotiated arrangements from the Deregulation Act 2016.
I'm slightly front-foot, and I think that anything called a "Roman Road" obviously has 20 years use by Romans so they should all be public footpaths, and Bridleways if the Romans used them for horses! Ideally, we would gets something like the Scottish arrangement, but M'Lud's would have a fit.
I was surprised to read that you can have private beaches in the UK. For us the crown owned the foreshore from high to low tide, so the whole of the beaches, and they transferred them to the people of Jersey about ten years ago. I would have presumed (wrongly clearly) that the crown owned the shoreline in the uk too.
It's complicated - aiui along the lines of "private beaches do exist, but the public cannot be excluded from the foreshaw". Which may mean you can own the beach, but not stop visits from a boat or along the beach between the high and low tide marks. In those circs closing an access path would make a difference.
@Foxy can probably explain the fun arguments about the desire for a coastal path on the Osborne Estate on the Isle of Wight. Instead aiui it goes down a main road.
Restore Britain will deport foreign nationals living in our country who are incapable of speaking English.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
There is no fucking way that 1 in 20 beer soaked, Clarkson bellied British expats in the Gulf speak Arabic, whether MSA or dialect, to any functional level.
I believe the word over covers that
Is Sandpit not fluent?
من حسن الحظ أن لغة الأعمال والتجارة في الخليج هي الإنجليزية.
Farage was referred to parliamentary standards commissioner by Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde. In the past, Babarinde was known for a social enterprise working with ex-offenders. So he should be able to spot a bad 'un if anyone can.
Restore Britain will deport foreign nationals living in our country who are incapable of speaking English.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
There is no fucking way that 1 in 20 beer soaked, Clarkson bellied British expats in the Gulf speak Arabic, whether MSA or dialect, to any functional level.
I believe the word over covers that
Is Sandpit not fluent?
من حسن الحظ أن لغة الأعمال والتجارة في الخليج هي الإنجليزية.
Farage has taken funding from a convicted criminal, including paying 3 staff to run his social media
As for Lab asking what Farages donors got in return, quite! I suppose its just coincidence that Lab has taken £ from super rich private Health donors & refused to introduce wealth taxes and has overseen a further increase in private health profiteering in NHS
Labour not averse to cash from convicted criminals
Suggestions that Farage will resign and trigger a by-election . This happening before the investigation concludes . I expect we’ll get some martyrdom speech .
He could save us a lot of trouble by just fxcking off to the USA and becoming Trumps full time gimp !
Acquiescing to Farage on the basis of him being a lesser evil is the very definition of defeatism.
In any event, "we" are not bringing down Farage - he's done it to himself. Lilico appears to be suggesting that we just ignore the huge sums of money and the dodgy sources.
The glaring thing to any lanyarder who has ever done a corporate compliance course, indeed to any brickie who has ever filled in a VAT form is just how crushingly entry level / 101 this all is. It's like stuff simply doesn't apply.
I mean, the parliamentary system that allows a hell of a lot on expenses, practical gifts and a level of security / VIP separation is borderline asking for trouble already, and the Farage stuff just blows even that system to smithereens.
Love of money, root of all evil and all that. Not seeking to create a good life using money as a means to an end. But treating it as a fetish object, a way of keeping score in life. Because that thirst can never be quenched.
From the expenses scandal - MPs of all parties were angry and horrified by the idea of having to provide receipts for everything they expensed.
It’s part of the #Nu10K thinking - being above such rules and laws is seen as part of the evidence of your privilege. Receipts and £50 limits on gifts are signs of being a Prole.
I'm nowhere near the 100K, let alone the 10K, but I have always found having to provide receipts for every expense incredibly irritating, and the presumption that I was fiddling the system unless I could prove otherwise was insulting.
I never have. My view is if somebody else is providing the money it's fair enough I can prove what I spent it on. And so can they to their auditors (I still have to keep receipts for everything I buy for the business).
It’s about the belief you are above the rules - which are imposed on companies via tax/audit rules and laws. They are just passed on to you.
Farage has taken funding from a convicted criminal, including paying 3 staff to run his social media
As for Lab asking what Farages donors got in return, quite! I suppose its just coincidence that Lab has taken £ from super rich private Health donors & refused to introduce wealth taxes and has overseen a further increase in private health profiteering in NHS
Labour not averse to cash from convicted criminals
And let us not forgot a party who's biggest ever donation (from a foreign resident too) was stolen from the vulnerable and never returned because "we've spent it":
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Key thing with Farage’s 2.00 pm statement is does he actually address the issues relating to his payments and financial relationships. Or is it just more street theatre.
From Official DOE site but hey you know best with you preconceived thoughts
Its fromhttps://www.google.co.uk/search?sca_esv=fb771978cd7fbbec&sxsrf=APpeQnswBTp9iLlQmTvELzX9Db2u49Z5rg:1783422905253&udm=2&fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8cqCQj_06QnZs315LoFmPf5bBLHMJ0vMQmTbuI72DM7jnxvATrUU2Yg9dwuUGnsUHcA8ltRxGSueAm4xbJB7-U9dUVXdUUUBKez4bad6LuBL0vMB19lFszB4gP8QG4a5HAYCwNbaWDeHUMg3aZg1dFyqz3j9lf_iAcutKfO6uVLnbDXIGC-9hzfE9LW_FBZRSpMh8bXw&q=no+future&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQwYGGuMCVAxVzVKQEHepSG8gQtKgLegQIIBAB&biw=1396&bih=632&dpr=1.38#sv=CAMSURoyKhBlLTlVZXZlWEtEeGFIc0hNMg45VWV2ZVhLRHhhSHNITToOanNLVVZrcmJ5TVNaaU0gBCoXCgFzEhBlLTlVZXZlWEtEeGFIc0hNGAEwARgHINH5rKMMSggQARgBIAEoAQ
At which he says he will stand.
"Let the people decide" etc etc
Just over five million homeowners should expect their monthly mortgage repayments to increase by the end of 2028, according to Bank forecasts.
Who will be the Man In The White Suit though?
Very, very complex, but typical of Eastern Europe and (far) Western Asia.
BBC News - Parents and local MP hit back at Durham High School closure - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62145l2433o?app-referrer=deep-link
It means nothing major happens.
It’s part of the #Nu10K thinking - being above such rules and laws is seen as part of the evidence of your privilege. Receipts and £50 limits on gifts are signs of being a Prole.
And I'd be interested to see how a school with 350 pupils and 100 teachers- or even 100 staff- works. Not saying that it isn't the case, but something about that ratio feels off.
Good news for Education equality
On the last of your - comments, rather than points - perhaps I know better than a bunch of drunken liars who have long been known to falsify data?
Gang-banger in his youth. You wouldn't want to cross the Walrus of Love...
https://rydalpenrhos.com/staff-list/
All this does is make the remaining public schools more elite and for the wealthy
Roughly you would expect 3-4 pupils for every one member of staff overall. In a mainstream style setting. More of course if it was big on SEND.
Being able to wear the T-shirt: A Farage statue crashing to the ground, Saddam-style, with a bold "I toppled Farage!"
They confess they have no real idea though.
Could we really be that lucky?
If state schools had similar ratios I suspect there would be very few private schools.
And rather fewer issues around SEND.
And far fewer issues with teacher retention/recruitment or reluctance to work longer days.
This would of course be incredibly upsetting to left wing nut jobs who would have to find some other target for their Two Minutes' Hate.
Now if she were British, and could stand, that problem resolves itself.
The other problem would be needing twice as many classrooms PDQ. Which is why primaries went for teacher + TA with classes of 30.
Somebody does...
The rights of way and so on here is even more of a rabbit hole than the Stand-on-the-Green one we were discussing the other day where most people disagreed with my "letter of the law and the national guidance, and work the pavement drinking around that" line (fair enough - we are here to disagree).
There are any number of PROWs which are not recorded on the Definitive Maps since the recording process in the 1950s after the 1949 Act was chaotic and incomplete to different degrees in different places, and that absence does not necessarily mean that it does not exist. And unrecognised ones can be recorded. Here they could go for "historic evidence of usage" or for "20 years proven unopposed usage").
There was also the imbroglio around 1900, where a committee was set up to manage public access. The evidence of that committee could be argued either side - either it was a PROW, or it was to manage access by permission (which is a right withdrawable at will by the landowner, who would argue that he has withdrawn it).
But I don't think the developer knows his stuff in detail - to my eye he has made admissions that may already have sunk his case. That was a Theresa Coffey Ministerial fiat if I recall, amongst other things. It is complicated, and affected "historic evidence" claims but not I think "20 years unopposed use" claims.
The deadline was abolished by the current Government - but I am not totally over the detail, or what is left standing of the stakeholder-negotiated arrangements from the Deregulation Act 2016.
https://defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2025/01/03/historic-rights-of-way-saved/
I'm slightly front-foot, and I think that anything called a "Roman Road" obviously has 20 years use by Romans so they should all be public footpaths, and Bridleways if the Romans used them for horses! Ideally, we would gets something like the Scottish arrangement, but M'Lud's would have a fit.
The real issue is the government won't pay for it because they don't care about good education, only cheap education that conforms to whatever random ideology is in vogue this week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70yk5xjyl1t
So, the court will say that they did not stop her running but she will say that the conditions imposed made running impossible. Something for everyone, really.
400k Brits live in Spain, over 85% can’t speak Spanish.
300k Brits live in the Gulf, over 95% can’t speak Arabic.
Hmm
So a latter day Kemi would have their parents deported and the whole family (a.k.a. dependents) go home. You can see this sort of thread in most right wing party thinking. But to quote Gordon Brown - it started in America.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-movement/5955807-birthright-citizenship-litmus-test-roe-v-wade/
On 2027’s biggest betting market.
A French appeals court has cleared the way for Marine Le Pen to run in the 2027 presidential election - but with an electronic tag.
https://news.sky.com/story/far-right-french-leader-le-pen-able-to-run-in-next-presidential-election-after-court-ruling-13561256
Drifted like a barge from 1.15
Re Ex-pats in Spain. Of all the foreign languages to learn, Spanish has to be one of the easiest to gain a reasonable level of fluency. Pronunication is reasonably easy (a lot easier than Portuguese) and there is no really tricky grammer (looking at you German) or different character set (Eastern European / Asian languages).
My wife's family did this a couple of times when her Dad's boats were still seaworthy, swimming to the beach from the boat, but landowners aren't happy about it.
“After a call from my friend President Trump, FIFA has agreed to suspend the parliamentary investigation against me.”
As for Lab asking what Farages donors got in return, quite! I suppose its just coincidence that Lab has taken £ from super rich private Health donors & refused to introduce wealth taxes and has overseen a further increase in private health profiteering in NHS
Is Sandpit not fluent?
@Foxy can probably explain the fun arguments about the desire for a coastal path on the Osborne Estate on the Isle of Wight. Instead aiui it goes down a main road.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80gee8p0eyo
Now 1.76
TBF thats not bad odds now given the PSC report is due in a couple of months
You can run with an electronic tag . Jordan Bardella won’t be happy unless she decides not to stand .
Currently 1.8
https://x.com/75002Parisienne/status/2074241364535935006
Maguire: Christopher Harborne, the crypto tycoon who gave Farage a £5m 'gift', would benefit hugely from a Reform govt
Kwarteng: thats absurd, if you say that about one donation, you could say it about all donations.
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/2074374182343688470
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-accepted-donations-convicted-criminal-fvfq05sd6
He could save us a lot of trouble by just fxcking off to the USA and becoming Trumps full time gimp !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Campbell-Brown
Former National Rally leader has electoral ban reduced by appeals court
Henry Samuel
Paris Correspondent"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/07/marine-le-pen-given-lifeline-french-presidential-election/