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Bkk Brian

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  1. Just read it. I doubt the left will want to read it though. Labour should learn from private schools, not terrorise them But what the Keir Starmer government is doing is potentially brutal. It may inflict the biggest state-instigated damage on private school pupils in history. No one knows exactly how big the hit will be. Predictions differ wildly. The policy has played well with Labour supporters, not least those on the left whom Starmer has been eager to woo https://archive.ph/Ldesh
  2. Anything to add to the topic? No, I'm done for the moment. Thought not, just personal attacks. The only thing left when you have nothing.
  3. Obviously your opinion is not credible. Anything to add to the actual topic?
  4. A snippet from the Executive Summary pdf download mentioned in the above report. Its actually from 2018 so Labour had plenty of time to ponder this.....I guess that's why the Conservatives never touched it, too much of a disaster waiting to happen if implimented. Some independent schools would need to close entirely, and most schools would need to scale-back their educational offer, whether by merging classes, stopping certain subjects, limiting curriculum choices, dropping co-curricular activities or reducing the pastoral care they provide. The extent of these changes is likely to mean that the UK’s educational offer and its international attractiveness would be harmed 3) The VAT policy would cause significant upheaval and disruption to the lives and education of many tens of thousands of children, often at key stages of their lives 4) The sheer number of pupils leaving the sector and needing to be educated by the state would also place great strains on the maintained sector, with the need to build new schools and classrooms and absorb many pupils quickly. Further, as it would also be virtually impossible to predict in advance in which towns or regions such demand would take place, the move would be a recipe for a great deal of community tension, for example in relation to school catchment areas, first-choice preferences and the National Schools Offer Date 5) The policy would therefore be likely to harm not only the education of those independent school pupils who switched, but also the education of pupils in receiving state schools
  5. Indeed: VAT on private schools Labour aim to raise £1.5 billion from applying VAT and business rates to private schools. Labour confirmed this policy a while back and the debate as to its likely effects has been raging ever since. Most private schools – who are facing pressure from rising wage and pension costs - will not be able to absorb the imposition of VAT at 20% and will pass this onto parents. It’s likely to make a private education unaffordable for most middle-class families, even where earnings are high and more children will end up in state schools instead. A 20% hike would be a final deal-breaker for many thousands of families. A recent survey by Bains Cutler suggested that as many as 42% of the total number of children currently in fee-paying places could be taken out of their schools and into the state system over the next five years. It means that private education will become the preserve of the wealthiest families and, increasingly, high net worth overseas parents seeking the prestige of a British private education for their children. There’s the added danger that untold pressures are brought to bear on the best state schools. https://www.evelyn.com/insights-and-events/insights/labour-manifesto-tax-evasion-vat-private-schools/
  6. Indeed, the “Innocent civilians”
  7. HUMANITY WILL NEVER FORGET https://x.com/NoaMagid/status/1872827954952327675
  8. A new Report being summitted to the UN shorty, contains harrowing details from the released hostages in the deal back in Nov. An eight-page report published today describes from the testimonies of survivors of captivity how Hamas terrorists abuse the hostages in captivity, among the horrific testimonies: Two teenagers held together during captivity were tied up for part of the time with their hands and legs tied and beaten throughout their captivity. The two were forced to perform sexual acts on each other, and their captors also performed sexual acts on them, including complete stripping, touching private parts, and whipping their genitals. Two other children had signs of burns in the lower extremities. The captors forced most of the women to undress when others, including their captors, saw them naked. In addition, some of the young women said that their captors touched them sexually. Some noted that they lay tied to the bed - and their captor sat and stared at them. An elderly woman held captive was alone in a dark room for 30 days, tied up and unable to move. The men experienced more severe physical abuse, and they were constantly starved, beaten vigorously all over their bodies, burned into their skin with iron, locked in a closed room with very little food and water, held in solitary confinement with their hands and feet tied, and denied the opportunity to go to the toilet – so they were forced to defecate on themselves. Burned, beaten, starved: Health Ministry compiles hostage testimonies to submit to UN Final report to be presented to UN committee that deals with torture; health minister says it should be a ‘wake-up call’ to pressure Hamas into releasing remaining captives https://www.timesofisrael.com/burned-beaten-starved-health-ministry-compiles-hostage-testimonies-to-submit-to-un/ https://archive.ph/M9ODM
  9. There you go the real simple1 outing himself, showing your support for the terrorists who are holding innocent hostages some murdered, children, babies and some raped then putting the onus on Netanyahu. More vile rhetoric from you. There is NO excuse for holding hostages, ever.
  10. The only blood lust being carried out here is by Hamas, accusations that its being employed by Israel is disgusting and shameful. Perhaps Hamas would be kind enough to release the hostages they have not murdered yet so this could stop and the civilians in Gaza will not have to suffer anymore because of them?
  11. Which has nothing to do with the IDF and its war on terror, Hamas who hide among civilians and in their terror tunnels, a new war strategy never employed before and one which Israel has had to adapt in the face of ongoing missile attacks on Israel from Hamas and other Iran funded terrorists. Israel’s New Approach to Tunnels: A Paradigm Shift in Underground Warfare One of the main reasons the IDF were unprepared for Gaza’s underground spaces was simply that no military had faced anything like it in the past—not even Israeli ground forces. The IDF faced a Hamas military organization that had spent over fifteen years engineering the infrastructure of an entire region—to include over twenty major cities—for war, with the group’s political-military strategy resting on a vast and expensively constructed subterranean network under Gaza’s population centers. The Hamas underground network, often called the “Gaza metro,” includes between 350 and 450 miles of tunnels and bunkers at depths ranging from just beneath apartment complexes, mosques, schools, hospitals, and other civilian structures to over two hundred feet underground. There are estimates of over five thousand separate shafts leading down into Hamas subsurface spaces. In past wars, where underground environments were used, the tunnel networks were subordinate to the surface and were not built solely under population centers mostly to be used as massive human shields. https://mwi.westpoint.edu/israels-new-approach-to-tunnels-a-paradigm-shift-in-underground-warfare/
  12. So an article from over a year ago, tell that to the parents of kids who are taking the gov to court because their children cannot be provided the same level of support in a state school........... "Smaller schools with lower fees are believed to be most at risk, and government sources have told the publication that these schools are under close scrutiny. To counteract potential disruptions, a government source told The Times: "We have to plan for the worst. But there’s a limited amount we can do, so contingency plans are necessary." Meanwhile, the ISC, which represents 1,400 private schools, announced in November that it had decided to take legal action against the Government. In late December, the ISC revealed that six families, supported by the ISC, officially filed a judicial review claim to the High Court to challenge the introduction of VAT." https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/government-prepares-potential-private-school-30666486
  13. Don't try and tell me what I posted, I know what I posted and it was not opinions but factual statements that were then backed up with credible links.
  14. Also known as blaming the messenger. I stated facts and backed them up with credible links. Unlike you who already admitted your post was a little tongue in cheek.
  15. Not all private schools are charities at all. Some are for profit, some not and some are on a charitable basis.
  16. I also think its disgusting that Hamas was using the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, again. I thought they would have learnt from the last time but nope.
  17. Ok that was quick, so in turn here's another update from the anti terrorists and their interview with the Hospital Director: He admits that there were at least 16 staff members at the hospital who also had positions within the Hamas military organization. Hamas leaders had their own office/phone line at the hospital. Hostages were held there. They had their own ambulance to travel in. https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1872747323429949523
  18. I was waiting for you to come up with that one, very happy you didn't disappoint and instead displayed again the way Hamas operate. Great news, they've arrested the Director of the hospital who is a Hamas terrorist! Just like his predecessor was. Operational activity began in the area of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the last few hours following intelligence regarding the presence of terrorist infrastructure and operatives carrying out terrorist activities. IDF troops are conducting targeted operations in the area while mitigating harm to uninvolved civilians, patients, and medical personnel. While maintaining ongoing communication with hospital officials, the IDF and @cogatonline continue to make extensive efforts to enable patients to continue receiving care in other hospitals by facilitating the evacuation of patients from the Kamal Adwan Hospital, the ongoing transfer of supplies, food, and fuel to the area, and the restoration of operations of hospitals in the area. https://x.com/IDF/status/1872606911012471118 All the info and evidence to the above is contained in this thread link: https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1872625254788722784 Here is the previous director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Listen to what he says if you want the truth https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1872746630900007150 & finally, keep up the great work @bannork please post when the IDF again get some more of those evil terrorists.
  19. Not read the article then, it is true
  20. Stop deflecting from the previous false claims you made and own up to them. Still waiting on this, none of your responses have addressed it and instead deflected with unassociated strawman nonsense. Then state better stop discussing it because mods would deem it bickering. Weak, very weak.
  21. Here we go again, blaming the messenger the Telegraph in this case No nonsense and stop making things up about what I suggest. Mum-of-three Rebecca, from Somerset, believes the new fees are "unfair", she said: "If they can guarantee my child will turn up at a state school and they will get the help they need, I have no problem. But they can't." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kjj40zrexo Heading for court… The policy may soon be tested as Sinclairslaw prepares to make a challenge at the High Court. The case involves a child refused an EHCP by the local authority. With no suitable state secondary school, her mother felt she had little choice but to fund an independent placement. It’s not clear if the parent appealed to the SEND Tribunal, as many others do. 98.3% who do, prevail in their appeal though it’s a long, hard road and not everyone can manage it. She claims it’s a violation of human rights, and it will be up to the courts to decide if it agrees. https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/children-send-deserve-better-pawns-vat-wars/ Alexis Quinn, whose daughter is autistic, said adding VAT at the standard rate of 20% to fees will force many children with special educational needs into "unsuitable placements" in the state sector. Ms Quinn has so far raised more than £72,000 to foot the cost of a legal challenge in the High Court. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7rgyljz4o
  22. Rubbish deflection. You made a blanket statement with no credible explanation of how. I gave you just one example that you missed. If the state sector had all the services needed for SENDS there would be no need for the Special Schools. Get things right. Special needs children not protected from private school VAT raid, says Bridget Phillipson “I know how desperately let down they feel by a system that isn’t delivering and I will deliver a better state sector for children to make sure that there is more specialist support within mainstream settings. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/27/special-needs-not-protected-labour-schools-vat-raid/ https://archive.ph/0KYmG You should probably start looking in the related topic, link at the bottom of the OP for more info.
  23. More of the same narrative that caused so much divide, doing their best to discredit a book on the subject and insisting it was zoonotic These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses Yet if the authors were truly concerned with the origin of COVID-19, they would give proper due to the prevailing scientific judgment about it: that COVID was “zoonotic,” spilling over from infected animals to humans via natural contact the way most viruses known to science have reached humankind. https://archive.ph/mVXyw https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-11-15/these-authors-wanted-to-promote-the-lab-leak-theory-of-covids-origin-instead-they-exposed-its-weaknesses
  24. Useless blanket statement. For one, there are special private schools that provide the needs for children that are not available in the state sector.
  25. That's a highly inflammatory claim, one that he denies and is attributed to a so called friend saying he witnessed it. Is this how far you go to discredit people, spread false info?
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