Community Care Grants & Crisis Loans STOPPING in April 2013?

margaretclare

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Actually you're very wrong. Labour MPs and Union Leaders live the life of luxury in expensive homes far from the madding crowd. Most are private school educated and are fully qualified barristers, or lawyers. Take the Labour Party Leader Ed Milliband, his house is worth a whopping £2 million and he refuses to reveal what is in his bank account.

I think you must be thinking of local councillors, or the Labour Party of the 1920's who actually cared about the British?

Many of the Labour Party members who made it to elected office in the last government came through the now well-established route of university, student party activities and/or union membership and activities, getting involved as either paid or unpaid researcher, party hierarchy is looking for a bright, attractive young candidate for a by-election, must speak well, must look good in TV clips on national or local news...

'Those who didn't come from a privileged background'. All this has become increasingly blurred. For myself, it was late to get involved in politics in the last decade or so, but I grew up in desperate poverty of the kind that isn't seen now because there were no benefits of any kind. The first of my family to go to grammar school, to be a professional (nursing), to buy our own house on a mortgage, to buy my own car, to go to university (well, polytechnic then), to earn a degree.

We are a dying breed, and nowadays it's not thought possible to exist at all without access to benefits. 'What can I claim, what am I entitled to?' If I said I grew up in a very poor family without any benefits (unless you count my grandad's old age pension) and yet was warm, clothed in home-made clothing and fed properly on home-prepared and home-cooked food, I don't think anyone nowadays would understand how that could be. Oh, and was encouraged to save from day one at the village school.

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I bet everyone popped into each others house for cups of tea and no-one went without as in you fed everyone who came through the door!

Those with less tend to give more xx