Harsh Lessons

Team Starmer's plans to impose VAT on education profiteering are ghastly and awful and horrid and have caused a fall in registration numbers even before being definitively watered down. Team Starmer has even threatened to channel the money stolen from profit-making infantine development enterprises into, of all things, teachers in state schools. Have the pleblings no mobile phones? Is there no internet? Thinking of the children, or anyway the sustainable ones, the Independent Schools Council has issued a pre-emptive squeal about the paltry merchandise being directed to its members' classrooms, which could have apocalyptic consequences should the iceberg knock on across the entire sustainable juvenile training industry. Naturally, the ISC did not deign to notice that registrations in the state sector are also falling, thanks in large part to the decline in British breeding stock; although its chief executive did note tactfully that there were lots of young people with special educational needs and disabilities, and that it would be a shame if anything were to, like, happen to them.