Labour U-Turn on the single market

adindas

Masomnia wrote: »

It's not just travelcards of course it's daily capping too.

Here's a snippet from the BBC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nATirv1vQc

There are no caveats there, no TfL this or that. 'Londoners who will not pay a penny more in 2020.' Actually a lot will.

I cannot blame if many Londoners who have been effected and/or voted for him because of his manifesto to freeze the public transport cost when they are calling him "shameless liar".

Because it is too obvious.

Londoners might want to forgive him if he simply apologized and admitted that the cost of freezing the travel card was unbearable.

Lesson learnt do not try to defend something which is indefensible because you will look more silly and disingenuous especially when making a pledge to Londoners who knows much how the tfl and London public transport work.

Masomnia

adindas wrote: »

I cannot blame if many Londoners who have been effected and/or voted for him because of his manifesto to freeze the public transport cost when they are saying "shameless liars".

Because it is too obvious.

Londoners might want to forgive him if he simply apologized and admitted that the cost of freezing the travel card was unbearable.

Lesson learnt do not try to defend something which is indefensible because you will look more silly and disingenuous especially when making a pledge to Londoners who knows much how the tfl and London public transport work.

I voted for the other guy, but I didn't think Kahn would be a bad mayor. Very little faith in him now, not just over the fares.

I can't believe he had the audacity to say that Zac Goldsmith 'Had a secret plan to raise fares' and then this!

justme111

steampowered wrote: »

I didn't know the answer to this off the top of my head, but did a quick google search.

An article by the independent last month suggests the average private school fee is £15,675 a year.

The wikipedia entry on private schools suggests there are 615,000 private school pupils in the UK.

If you charged VAT at 20% on 615,000 pupils paying on average £15,675 a year, the tax receipt would be £1.928 billion.

This is actually £328 million more than Labour say they would raise in the Labour manifesto. Of course the actual tax receipt would be slightly lower, as you would have to adjust the figure to take account of some people removing their children from private school or private schools reducing their fees.

Indeed , it does add up. I wish I had time and perseverance to check whether other numbers do .