Labour Takes a MASSIVE HIT!

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00:00In this video I'm very pleased to report there's a major blow to this government's plans in

00:04destroying what is really valuable to this country and that is the private education

00:08that we should be proud of in this country. But it's going to take some explaining. So

00:14bear with me. I think you'll enjoy this one. So first of all please do subscribe to the channel.

00:18I'm trying to be hot on the pulse with these things. I'm independent. I will stay so

00:22please do subscribe and I'll be really grateful. So where do we start? It's about private schools

00:27and it's not that they've been knocked back on the VAT. That is still yet to come hopefully

00:33because that's going to court. This is something different. Many of you may have missed the bit

00:38about the private schools. Not just the VAT element but they were also being well they're

00:42being hit twice or three times really with the employer national insurance. That's obviously

00:47a thing that's coming in. They were hit with the VAT which is another thing that came in.

00:52But also many people missed the charitable rates relief which for many schools because obviously

00:58they use a lot of buildings they many of you may not know that they have a charitable status rate

01:03relief on the buildings that they use. But they also in adding the VAT and the employer national

01:10insurance and everything else they were also hit with this removal of charitable rates relief on

01:17the buildings. And that's where we come to this bit of law here. So for a bit of context and a bit

01:22of explanation this comes from the Local Government Finance Act of 1988 and under charitable rate

01:28relief this essentially means that these schools did qualify for charitable rates relief which if

01:35this were removed means that those schools would have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds a year

01:41some of them on top of what they already pay for nothing extra. So if they weren't already

01:47struggling which many of them were and we should be propping them up rather than making them fail

01:53they certainly would be on the brink of failing because of this hundreds of thousands of pounds

01:57worth of extra fees that they'd have to pay if they lose this charitable rates relief.

02:01That's where the extra spiteful in my view attitude from this government came from with the bill that

02:09was designed to remove that relief and that is this one here the non-domestic ratings multipliers

02:14and private schools bill. Many of you may not have heard of it but that's exactly what it does. It

02:18sought to remove this rates relief from charitable status private schools another blow that would have

02:28made them struggle to survive. Now this was a long way along now you can see at the bottom here that

02:35a bill is what becomes an act of law and it obviously has to go through both houses of

02:41parliament before it becomes law for royal assent and becomes an act of law. Watch the comment

02:47section go crazy now but it starts as a bill and so this started in the commons house of commons

02:54it went through the first reading the second reading committee stage report stage third

02:57reading and then over to the house of lords. Now we're on the third reading of the house of lords

03:02now but here's where it gets really interesting. There was an amendment moved by Baroness Barron

03:08amendment 30 which was to leave out clause 5. So what does that mean? Let's move to this is the

03:16bill as it came across from the house of commons. Now we can scroll down to the bit that I highlighted

03:22which is clause 5. Clause 5 says removal of relief. So this clause in the new bill amends

03:31the old law the government finance act that I showed you a moment ago with the charitable rates

03:35relief bit this amends that law or would amend that law that in schedule 4za in paragraph 2

03:42the bit about charitable rates relief that's this bit here that I showed you a moment ago this is

03:48schedule 4za that's paragraph 2 there you can see you can't really see it's not zoomed in enough

03:54but there's the charitable rates relief bit this would amend that to insert after subparagraph 2

04:01but this paragraph does not apply where this is situated in England and on the day that it's

04:07concerned the heritage element is wholly or mainly used for the purposes of carrying on a private

04:11school and a private school means an institution which is a school at which full-time education is

04:15provided for pupils of compulsory age. Now that's what I think is abhorrent what this did if people

04:22hadn't realized this specifically said we are going to make them pay more money for using the

04:29buildings to deliver education to children it was removing the rates relief from charities that are

04:35charitable status they're not for profit they are providing education to schools

04:39and I think that's abhorrent to remove or even seek to remove this the VAT is a separate but

04:46similar thing but they sought to remove this rates relief so this would have inserted into

04:54this act here but this rates relief bit doesn't apply to private schools so they don't get that

04:59relief any longer however as I said the amendment was moved to leave out that clause i.e. we'll move

05:09ahead with the bill but without that clause this was one of a few six I think different

05:16things that were proposed and so this was one of them to leave out that clause so now

05:24the bill as it's moving forward is not with this clause 5 removal of rates relief we move that

05:30across now the new clause 5 is now the threshold effect something else something else entirely

05:35so clause 5 has been removed so as I said a huge blow to this government's plans to desecrate the

05:42private school sector of this country this alone would have affected over a thousand schools

05:47and the house of lords peers voted overwhelmingly by majority of 91 to remove this provision from

05:54that bill that would have ended that tax relief status for those schools now there's been some

06:00reporting on this baroness baron reported to say that education should not be taxed

06:06says clearly the government does not agree with us and we've seen this from the egregious

06:10introduction of vat on independent school fees and now with this bill former schools minister

06:16expressed concerns about political overreach affecting charities warning that government's

06:20actions would create a two-tiered system punishing charities that don't conform to its views

06:24it also argued that ending the tax relief will impact vulnerable children such as those with

06:29special education needs and disabilities and a conservative peer lord shinquin who himself has

06:35a genetic condition osteogenesis imperfecta who was educated at private school said that the

06:39government's treating children with send as expendable said that removing the part of the

06:43bill that was set to end the tax relief for these schools is the only way to protect pupils with

06:48send that attend independent schools like those that I attended he says where the proportion

06:52with send is much less than 50 he says the sad fact is in the government's eyes the damage to

06:58many of these children's life chances seems to be a price worth paying they are expendable

07:03immaterial inconsequential collateral damage caught in the crossfire of what appears to be

07:07an ideological obsession with punishing anyone they perceive as rich yet many of these children's

07:12families are not rich as I've been saying all along and the government knows it but they seem

07:17not to care they seem not to care incredibly about pupils with send mental health which is undoubtedly

07:23going to be hurt by the impact of this measure and branded the measure as deeply damaging and

07:28wholly disproportionate saying that schools could close as a result and we've seen lots of schools

07:34closing as a result of all of these different measures some people saying well these schools

07:39were struggling anyway well that might be the case but we should be championing these schools

07:43and helping them to survive not slapping them with vat to make it more difficult for children to go

07:48they're slapping them with all the employer national insurance which every company has been

07:53hampered with and to top it off removing the charitable rates relief which they were intending

07:58to do but now has been blocked so I for one think that's a good thing I think that's a good thing

08:03for children across the country particularly those with sand and in general because we shouldn't be

08:08taxing education because that is abhorrent I hope you agree you don't have to agree but please do

08:13leave me your comments and thoughts please do subscribe to the channel and as always thank you

08:16for watching

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