The standout most bonkers thing about Isabel Oakeshott's move to Dubai is that she's blaming the relocation on Keir Starmer... and his VAT on private schools policy
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One takes it that her children will be attending a local school and fully integrating into Dubai's indigenous culture.
Learning Arabic, converting to lslam etc.
Oakeshott will never admit the Brexit dream they sold to the UK electorate has been a catastrophic disaster from day one.
Like rats leaving a sinking ship.
So she’s quite happy to live the life of an immigrant who doesn’t pay tax, doesn’t integrate with indigenous culture and expects her adoptive country to educate her offspring. All whilst supporting her lover, a hate preacher in a foreign land.
International schools in the UAE are definitely not free. One of the ironies is that she’ll be paying significantly more than she would have in the UK, for her kids to follow either the UK curriculum - or funnier still, the IB. Either way - joke’s on her.
School fees in Dubai will be about £5,000 - £20,000 a year; however, once you throw in the other costs of moving to and living in the UAE she's going to be well out of pocket.
The schools are there because Brits move there to work, not the other way round. Her story is total bollocks.
Yep - I’ve lived in the UAE; K5 definitely on the lower end and I’m sure Izzy’s kids won’t be going there. Most people have some kind of subsidy from their employer so the schools can charge whatever they like.
Actually, she won’t pay income tax. However the Dubai and UAE authorities long ago cottoned on to the expats as a massive source of income by massively taxing every aspect of life, from visa costs to food and drink.
Probably thinks she’s living tax free but Sheikh M is creaming a fortune from her.
I’m sure Oakeshott will be very happy living in country that matches her hopes for the future of the UK: an intolerant, right wing, authoritarian land that exploits immigrants as slave labour and denies the opposition basic freedom of press and expression and democracy
Don't forget the strong men. She said she likes strong men. The sort that show they are in charge. She should have plenty of opportunity to be subservient to men.
I think all education for foreigners in Dubai is fee-paying, isn't it? It doesn't seem to be as expensive as here but roll in all the other costs of moving there and living there and she's massively out of pocket.
But then it isn't the real reason for her moving there.
You get the right wing rant "you can't celebrate Christmas because of Muslims"
Then come to a sharia law country where they turn a 800m high building into a Christmas tree and Christmas is shoved down your face as much as in a Christian country. Eid and Ramadan bigger of course. Every festival BIG
The irony is that she has spent her life spitting hate and writing articles about Muslims, Islam and how there are too many immigrants and then she goes to live in Dubai. They should deport her or put her in prison.
Her, an economic migrant to a predominantly Muslim country...,.now that's funny. Paying even higher school fees as a protest about paying higher school fees is just hilarious, on an upper class twit of the year nomination level.
Isabel is neither hard working nor can she not afford private schools. She's also lying about her motives.
If you can't afford the VAT, then a fortiori you can't afford to up sticks and move to Dubai. And interrupting your children's education to score cheap political points is a very bad idea.
Even more bonkers is the impossible thought that Oakshott and/or Tice have ever deflected more than a millisecond of their vanity time to procreation. Given they are both preening on GBNews or BBCPolitics 24/7 they must be surrogates.
It also shows she hasn't really understood the main purpose of the Public School system. You are judged by which school you attended & the innate advantage attending certain schools give (as highlighted by Moggs put-down of the Wykehamist MP)
Her kids won't have any of that
Only if the school in question is one of tye couple of dozen "elite" ones for whose pupils money is no object in any case. Not the other 2,500 or so you've never heard of.
Has she not realised she is an economic migrant that has moved away from her beloved homeland, for a better life.
She won’t see the irony or the hypocrisy.
She would have gone anyway. Since you know she's a professional liar, why have you suddenly started believing her? She's leaving to avoid a big pile of income tax, not a few grand in VAT that she wouldn't even notice.
"Darlings, we're moving to Dubai, upending your lives and separating you from all your friends because mummy and daddy hate paying their fair share of taxes..."
Economic migrant brings her children to a new country where her religious and cultural backgrounds are at odds with locals and claims she had to flee an oppressive regime.
Yeah, 'can't afford private school fees because of new VAT rules, so she just moved to Dubai instead' is just.... actually I just can't even... I mean.... WTAF is this deranged bollox???
Dubai's "endless opportunities" and its "booming economy" are built on exploited, impoverished, indentured labour from south Asia and the Asia Pacific.
Oakeshott, Tice, Farridge and their fellow libertarian cultists want the same set-up for the UK.
She is clearly clueless about the quality of education in Middle Eastern private schools. I think she's going to be very disappointed. You have to ask questions beyond the home page of the school's website.
I don’t know a lot about private schools out in the UAE, but some of our friends/acquaintances brought their kids back over to the U.K. when it was time to start (private) secondary school.
Oakeshott quoted in The Daily Mail in 2021 “I have spent more than £500,000 on nannies, nurseries and au pairs since my youngest son was born in 2007. Over half a million pounds!” But the small VAT charge sent her to Dubai?
It's not VAT she'sxrunning away from. That won't make any difference to the super rich because for them these amounts are trivial. It's income tax she doesn't like.
The standout thing for me was Tice, a man of the people casually dropping in his affinity for Dubai given his family had built a skyscraper there in the 1970s...
If she seriously thinks relocating to Dubai will be less expensive than sending her children to private school here, then she is deluded. I think she is going to get a nasty shock when she realises those 'endless opportunities' are another figment of her imagination.
Arabic is a very difficult language for foreigners to learn. Someone as thick as she is stands no chance whatsoever.
She'll be one of the Brits who think speaking the language means shouting at the natives slowly in English and in monosyllables while getting more and more angry and frustrated.
And in one fell stroke Oakeshitt confirms that the policy of adding VAT to private school fees is an excellent one. Hope they enjoy living under Sharia law
The private schools out there are excellent. Seriously. The problem for Oakeshott is that children are going to be mixing with a lot of foreign brown and Asian children. Very rich foreign brown and Asian children I admit.
So living under Sharia Law is better than paying a bit more to educate your kids? Even if you're a white woman?
Someone should tell Tommeh & his followers.
I hope the authorities don't find out about their marital status (i may be wrong. I don't think they're legally married) cos they'd be in trouble if they live there
Occasionally I’ll text him asking if he’s taken his daughters to any good beheadings lately - even though I know full well it’s all done by firing squad out there. Oh the laughs!
Dubai reminds me of a luxury open prison for the dodgy rich. 'Expats' snared like flies in a gilded web by their fear of domicile tax authorities. If you have to live there you're already halfway to hell.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Oakeshott is married, but lives with Richard Tice in Dubai. In which case she is one malicious phone call away from deportation. Cohabitation on non-married couples is illegal.
Anyone got the number of UAE immigration?
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Learning Arabic, converting to lslam etc.
Like rats leaving a sinking ship.
Oh irony thy name is woman…
The schools are there because Brits move there to work, not the other way round. Her story is total bollocks.
Probably thinks she’s living tax free but Sheikh M is creaming a fortune from her.
She'll fit right in
But then it isn't the real reason for her moving there.
Most Emeratis have their kids in private schools. The education better
Oakshott may not like her kids being expected to celebrate Eid, Diwali and Christmas as is typical here
Then come to a sharia law country where they turn a 800m high building into a Christmas tree and Christmas is shoved down your face as much as in a Christian country. Eid and Ramadan bigger of course. Every festival BIG
#Tice spends all his time in a plane visiting Isobel #Oakshot who is one of those horrid immigrants.....
We made a big move, across counties so new school friends etc. talked to my kids first, joint decision.
If my reason was because of politics and paying VAT that I could well afford, they would have rightly called me a twat
If you can't afford the VAT, then a fortiori you can't afford to up sticks and move to Dubai. And interrupting your children's education to score cheap political points is a very bad idea.
Dubai living, schools and all those flights are of course cheaper.
Her kids won't have any of that
She won’t see the irony or the hypocrisy.
Having her sling her hook is vote winner for Starmer already!
…of course
But yeah, hero of the working class etc.
Dubai's "endless opportunities" and its "booming economy" are built on exploited, impoverished, indentured labour from south Asia and the Asia Pacific.
Oakeshott, Tice, Farridge and their fellow libertarian cultists want the same set-up for the UK.
So both she and Tice-but-Dim are "working" remotely? Surely not, given it signals the death of modern society according to those two skidmarks
*institutionalised slavery
We know she thinks that immigrants should speak the language of the country they emigrate to.
She'll be one of the Brits who think speaking the language means shouting at the natives slowly in English and in monosyllables while getting more and more angry and frustrated.
Someone should tell Tommeh & his followers.
Omar Gawd!
I'm happy she's an emigrant though...😹
The beach in Sint Maarten you can do before being bored.
Being trapped indoors due to the heat and dust in Dubai get tiresome
The beach in Sint Maarten you can do so much before being bored of it.
Anyone got the number of UAE immigration?
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