Child Benefit fiasco: cuts 'unravelling' already...

Really2

carolt wrote: »

I know nothing about Hauptmann.

Have you met them, Really?

I thought it was you, please see edit I realised my mistake.

carolt

Really2 wrote: »

No, I imagine you to be a supply teacher? Not full time, mainly covering the odd lesson.

Imagine away..I'm not going to tell a load of internet weirdos precisely what I do.

Actually, as I said, I do about 5 different 'jobs' - so if one fails, I can pick up on another - essential as I cannot afford to have nothing coming in.

Alan_Cross

Have just listened to Dopey Dave's defence of it on the midday news. You can hear the fumbling and cringing. It's pathetic.

Ah but then I was listening to the BBC, so his voice was obviously changed deliberately so as to sound that way....

Hauptmann

Really2 wrote: »

I deal with teachers every day, yes they do additional work but mainly at home.

If teachers worked 8AM-6PM at school our work would be 10X easier.

When you say you 'deal with teachers' what does that mean. My sister teaches the new starters at school. Seems an horrendous job to me and when I see her she looks totally drained. Not I job I would ever want to do.

BTW - I am not a teacher!! I run a car sales and repair business and also a small property business. I earn about 5x as much as my sister - LOL!

Really2

carolt wrote: »

Imagine away..I'm not going to tell a load ofinternet weirdos precisely what I do.

Actually, as I said, I do about 5 different 'jobs' - so if one fails, I can pick up on another [ essential as I cannot afford to have nothing coming in.

I never asked you too?

But your 5 jobs make it sound they add cash to your husbands £44K+ salary.

Your other option is to work full time and not expect the state to fund your choice of work.

I work full time, my wife works part time I just go over the £44K limit am I going nuts about this?
We can easily do without it.

MissMoneypenny

dopester wrote: »

Labour, if they were back in power, would have had to take similar unpopular measures as well you do realise.

Labour didn't want to get back in power as they would have had to sort out the mess they created, themselves and they didn't know how to do it. After all, they had inherited a model economy and managed to turn it into a basket case in a decade.

Labours gameplan was to lose the election: don't do a deal with the Liberals: let the other parties sort out the mess while the Labourites shouted "shame" and then get elected back into power next time.

StevieJ

Really2 wrote: »

I deal with teachers every day, yes they do additional work but mainly at home.

If teachers worked 8AM-6PM at school our work would be 10X easier.

They do have those after school clubs.

StevieJ

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Labours gameplan was to lose the election: don't do a deal with the Liberals: let the other parties sort out the mess while the Labourites shouted "shame" and then get elected back into power next time.

Shows how pathetic the Tory vote really was then, didn't win even even though the opposition didn't turn up

Alan_Cross

Hauptmann wrote: »

When you say you 'deal with teachers' what does that mean. My sister teaches the new starters at school. Seems an horrendous job to me and when I see her she looks totally drained. Not I job I would ever want to do.

BTW - I am not a teacher!! I run a car sales and repair business and also a small property business. I earn about 5x as much as my sister - LOL!

And you find that a laughing matter. That figures.

You have just outlined, perhaps unwittingly, a major part of what is wrong with our society... socially useless jobs (in which category I include banking) are well rewarded whereas we take advantage of those who educate or care for us.

This country needs a massive shake up to reverse this.

carolt

Really2 wrote: »

I never asked you too?

But your 5 jobs make it sound they add cash to your husbands £44K+ salary.

Your other option is to work full time and not expect the state to fund your choice of work.

I work full time, my wife works part time I just go over the £44K limit am I going nuts about this?
We can easily do without it.

You have, AFAIK, only one chid, so your childcare costs would be much lower, and you stand to lose much less. Plus I dont know your fixed costs - ours (rent, travel costs etc) are quite high, and impossible to change, without moving to an area where we have no jobs at all! Yes, we'd get our child benefit back for sure, but I hardly think we want to incentivise current taxpayers to give up work entirely - that would really be a poor outcome for these changes!