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Landed in Frankfurt safely! See you City lot tomorrow! Ps. Don’t book a flight to Frankfurt Hahn - it’s 2 hours away from Frankfurt! 😂

The burden is on the classroom sizes and financially. Every student that moves from private education to the state sector carries the cost of £6.6k to £8.8k per pupil. So if we need even more teachers to deal with the influx of new students, it could defeat the point of the levy.

… The VAT exemption is a tax break?

I’m sure if ‘just fund them properly’ was the solution, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Even Labour in 2024 and back in 1997 the NHS cannot survive if government just constantly need to throw more and more money at it. The private sector and NHS can coexist. The countries that outperform us...

There’s definitely a lot of spite regarding this topic and others. If people can afford better, they should somehow be punished for that. Really, these people are doing the taxpayer a favour because the state doesn’t need to pay for their children’s education.

I’ve predicted 1-0 in the ITV predictor app and feel a 0-0 would be a great shout had Denmark won against Slovenia. Denmark probably need a draw going into the final game v Serbia.

Exactly. That’s why there are people out there criticising the policy because people will drop out from the private sector and the state sector will pick up the burden. If the state sector is understaffed, underfunded and overcrowded, the last thing you want to do is push people from the...

The assumption you’re making is that people are paying for this out of their salary. You can finance things with loans/remortgaging.

Without doing a rerun of this debate, the IFS reckons the tax will raise £1.7bn whereas the Adam Smith institute reckons it will cost £1.6bn to the taxpayer. Simple question: if the OBR forecasts the policy will cost the taxpayer (net) or raise no where near what Labour hopes… would you still...

If Starmer and Labour win and things do improve, then the electorate would conclude that they deserve to stay in power. That’s a big if and the points people are making that the actual detail of Labour’s policies is not that much different from the Tories. Take housing as an example, they plan...

To be honest, the basis for moving the vote down to 18 was done in conjunction with moving age of majority down from 21 to 18. Therefore, if we moved the voting age down, we ought to move the age of majority down too. That’s a pretty consistent line to take. If you don’t agree the age of...

It boils down to this; do we want to vote a party or a government? In PR, you rarely get majorities so coalitions become the norm, is that what people actually vote for? Coalition governments tend to be more volatile. Voting smaller parties is not necessarily a ‘wasted’ vote. It will either...

See, it’s always better to find common ground where we can. We all care about our country and just want the best for it, even if we disagree on the ways and means.

England weren’t great but it’s just about getting the clean sheet and the 3 points and a platform to grow into the tournament. Personally, I expected more from France because Austria are a team that press aggressively and there will be space to exploit. The only real clear cut chance they made...

You’re in a feisty mood this morning! Agreed on everything bar the elected 2nd chamber. We don’t have separation of powers in the same way that the US does so had two elected chambers would cause problems. The reason the Commons can force legislation through against the Lords That said, the...

Funny that the 3 favourites France, England and Portugal have all got off to slow starts. International football is just slower and the priority is to not concede goals (imo). You don’t win anything on the first day. The most impressive teams from Matchday 1 is Spain and then Germany. I don’t...

I wish I was 16-18 again! 😂 Sorry, I missed out the small detail of ‘on demand’ absentee voting i.e. in Northern Ireland it’s restricted and a reason given for a proxy/postal vote. No, there’s been some reports that indicate the system could be prone to tampering and what not. It was...

I also disagree with postal voting, 20% of votes being cast in this way doesn’t quite sit right with me. There’s also a reason it’s not allowed in Northern Ireland too.

My preference for FPTP is more technical. Bearing in mind the rarity that a party will reach 51% of the popular vote, coalition governments become the norm. Which, imo, isn’t what the electorate votes for (in most cases). Let’s use this election to make a hypothetical example: Labour is...

Likewise with Welsh Labour too. Which is my logic when I say anyone expecting big changes from an incoming Labour government will be disappointed by the next election. Totally agree that the Tories absolutely deserve to kicked out of government, the alternative just isn’t going to be much...