Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh defends sending children to private school
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh has defended sending her children to private school despite backing removing the VAT exemption on fees for the independent sector.
The Peckham MP stressed that the VAT move was the “right policy” for a Government as it struggles to balance the books.
Ms Fahnbulleh, who soared into the Cabinet just two years after becoming an MP, also said that sending children to private school does not preclude people from “being part of the Labour team or the Labour family”.
There is nothing wrong with sending your children to private schools, obviously not, but here of course we have yet another example the hoary old champagne socialist story.
State education is good enough for your kids but not for mine.
Or
Absurdly high fuel bills for you, jetting off to climate conferences for me.
It's much the same.
It's much the same.
In our moral reviews of ourselves we practise optical delusions even upon our own self-scrutiny, and paint and mask our motives, and fill our ears with excuses and with downright lies. So inveterate is the habit of deceiving, and even in the dark we form our features by hypocrisy, and scarcely know all this.
Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery (1869)
Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery (1869)
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Going to quote Le Fanu on X and attribute here. It sums it up.
She advances the lie that no VAT on private schools means that the government is cross-subsidising them. Whereas, VAT or no VAT, the parents who use private schools are obviously subsidising the parents who use state schools.
In a similar vein, we find that Edinburgh City Council is about to impose a 300% council tax surcharge on second homes, but MSP's get to put this on expenses, because reasons. Two-tier lives!
These scum party apparatchiks are all the same. Endless lies and bullshit.
I don't suppose we should expect anything different from a gangsters daughter.
James - gosh, I hope Musk doesn't read it!
dearieme - yes, it's a blatant lie but she'll get away with it. She must know it's a lie too, in the sense that she must know her kids are being educated at zero cost for state education.
Peter - good grief, that's third world level corruption.
Mike - yes, it's not obvious how she progressed from that background to where she is now. She has been described as worse than Miliband, but maybe that's what Burnham wanted.
Have you noticed that something is always 'the right policy' or the 'right thing to do'. An assertion that is designed to end debate without analysis.
I would respect someone who says 'this is the sensible policy for these circumstances'. It may be some time, if ever, before I hear such things.
DJ - yes, it's one thing they are pretty good at, chopping off debates before they begin. At a stroke it walks away from any chance of finding common ground, like picking up the ball and walking off with it.
She went on to compound the assertion highlighted by Dearieme; “…. it is the right thing for the state to decide that we're not going to cross-subsidise parents that do make that choice to send their children to independent schools and we're going to put that money [sic] into the state sector where the majority of kids go”.
Sadly, I think that the government is consistently operating on the principle that if you repeat a lie often enough, some people will believe it. I dread to think what the implications are for pupils who have had to leave their independent schools if their classmates - and quite possibly teachers - believe their previous privileged education was in part paid for by ordinary taxpayers.
(Incidentally, I didn’t know much about her but the guardian approvingly profiles her as a ‘former refugee’; if your father needs to explain to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he ‘does not regret the actions of his youth because he was leading a revolution against an oppressive regime’, it’s surely a fair bet he wasn’t your common-or-garden fugitive from war or disaster.)
Macheath - the government seems to be right too, when they repeat a lie often enough, some people do believe it. Probably enough people for government purposes if we add in media people who have to 'believe' it in a professional sense.
I don't know much about her either, but her family background comes across as dubious at best. Presumably known to the security services, but that's not necessarily an endorsement.
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