The easiest way to tell that it was a subsidy from the fee-paying parents would be for those parents to stop paying. I suspect the free scholarship would soon end. (View Post)

Both technically accurate. But the real reason that they used the gross rather than net figure was that the Remain side just wouldn't stop talking about it. (View Post)

It was other parents' money, the ones subsidising those on the scholarships. Much like how subsidies in the EU work. (View Post)

A subsidy using the UK's own money, with limitations on what it could be spent on. As for your analogy, why can't you view it like that? It's just the government taking with one hand a… (View Post)

That's just the UK's money recycled back, it isn't a subsidy. (View Post)