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D Day for Benefits Claimants as "nastiest" party has it's way
ruggedtoast
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dday-for-benefits-claimants-as-unions-go-for-the-jugular-8555688.html
Quite right. Let's see land taxation on country estates or offshoring of tax bases to become illegal and then hear how we are "all in it together".
This vile Tory government is the equivalent of Jabba the Hutt, and the Lib Dems are their Carrie Fisher, attached to them by a chain wearing a brass bikini.
A complete shower the lot of them.
Ms O’Grady, speaking at the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers’ conference in Bournemouth, said: “[The Government] is cutting its way into a triple-dip recession, shrinking public services we all rely on and attacking benefits with the low-paid, women and children hit the hardest. This is the most ideological, right-wing and plain nastiest government Britain has ever seen.”
She said the crisis was not caused “by teachers having gold-plated pensions or because teachers sit around the staff room awarding each other obscene bonuses, living the life of Riley and putting down bets with other people’s money”.
“It was a crisis caused by the greed of bankers, by growing inequality and falling living standards propped up by unsustainable debt and by too much economic power being concentrated in the hands of too few,” she added.
Quite right. Let's see land taxation on country estates or offshoring of tax bases to become illegal and then hear how we are "all in it together".
This vile Tory government is the equivalent of Jabba the Hutt, and the Lib Dems are their Carrie Fisher, attached to them by a chain wearing a brass bikini.
A complete shower the lot of them.
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Mmmmh...... I can see the direction your fantasies go....very eighties!;)ruggedtoast wrote: »http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dday-for-benefits-claimants-as-unions-go-for-the-jugular-8555688.html
Quite right. Let's see land taxation on country estates or offshoring of tax bases to become illegal and then hear how we are "all in it together".
This vile Tory government is the equivalent of Jabba the Hutt, and the Lib Dems are their Carrie Fisher, attached to them by a chain wearing a brass bikini.
A complete shower the lot of them.0 -
It's not tenable to have a situation where being on the dole pays better than working.0
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Are they really the nasty party...or are they the party that sees work must pay and actually have the balls to put changes in place that make that happen, however unpopular those changes may seem, rather than just dole out benefits in exchange for votes like the last lot?Dont wait for your boat to come in 'Swim out and meet the bloody thing'
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Been reading the Mail this morning perchance?Going4TheDream wrote: »Are they really the nasty party...or are they the party that sees work must pay and actually have the balls to put changes in place that make that happen, however unpopular those changes may seem, rather than just dole out benefits in exchange for votes like the last lot?0 -
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Ahhh yes............. the sensible tories that watch all the pennies and tell us all that nothing is free....after having presided over decades of free market excess and credit growth. The party that tells us we should all aspire to own our own home and buy lots of things on credit and then when it all goes wrong tell us how profligate we have been....what a bunch of hypocrites. They worship at the alter of free market economics and then bleat when it turns round and bites them on the !!!!!No, he's just more sensible than the loony left.0 -
It's not tenable to have a situation where being on the dole pays better than working.
Minority view on the BBC this morning. Only a conservative minister held that viewpoint.
Other than that it was wall to wall benefit claimants explaining how it was just so unfair.
The labour party chap obviously opposed the measures but instead of saying why chose to witter on about 50% income tax banding.0
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