Sir Keir Starmer's plan to rob Peter to pay Paul is unraveling before his very eyes, and I'm glad to see the Labour leader's policy being tested in the real world.
You see, Keir's policy to invigorate the flagging state school sector involves charging VAT on private schools or independent schools, and that is a cool 20 per cent increase in fees to parents in one hit.
He plans to use the money that he gets from this to fund the state sector, although if he'd looked into it a bit more thoroughly, even I know that private schools often help out the state sector, sharing facilities and putting back into the community.
My mum's local private school, which is in fact my old boarding school, sends out a minibus for the elderly to give them lunch free of charge.
Nana Akua questions the Labour leader for his plan to charge private school VAT
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I know this because they pick up my mum and she tells them to watch my show. When she gets there, she goes "you must watch my daughter's programme".
Keir should have also noticed that many independent schools are struggling to get by as it is, they're not all like Eton, and the majority of parents are foregoing many things and working all hours God sends so that their kids don't have to.
You see, if Sir John Curtice is correct, and he pretty much always is, he said that Keir has a 99.9 per cent chance of winning the next general election.
The anticipation of this prospect before he's even in office - unfortunately for him - means this plan is unraveling before his very eyes.
In fact, it's already beginning to bite. Enrolments to these schools have already fallen by 2.7 per cent and are set to fall further in September.
The Independent Schools Council, who have been collecting data on new starters for over a decade, reported this as the biggest annual drop since it began collecting its data in 2011.
Now, the body represents almost 1400 private schools, and experts say that the policy could result in as many of them closing down. Julie Robinson, the chief executive of the ISC, said: "You can see the change in our census already and new parents for this year are asking about that".
She also went on to say the majority of families are dual income households who can afford to just about afford fees comfortably and are starting to see already the impact of that looming on the horizon.
So in coming up with this oh so ridiculous plan before care has even taken office, the independent school sector is already feeling the brunt of his master plan.
If he's not careful in trying to rob Peter to pay Paul, he might have singlehandedly destroyed both by burdening an already overloaded state system and depriving the private sector, resulting in only the super rich who make a very small percentage of the population being able to afford private education, thereby widening further the divide between the rich and poor, good and bad.
And that's not to say that state schools are bad. In fact, many are exceptional. But the burden of yet more students and the ever diminishing return of Keir plan will mean their resources will be even more stretched. I guess he couldn't see that would be the outcome.
Looking over from his north London ivory tower from inside his comfortable Westminster bubble, it was pretty obvious to most of us who live in the real world. Talk about destroying both sectors with one blow. The irony, of course, Sir Keir Starmer benefited from a private education when his school became a fee paying one.
He was allowed to stay on and his fees were paid. There's a lot of drawbridge pulling up going on in the Labour Party of late. Well done Sir Keir. I think this would probably be a wise time for one of your legendary flip flops, don't you?
