David Cameron is planning to set limits on the power of the House of Lords after George Osborne suffered a major blow to his authority when peers voted to delay tax credit cuts in order to protect those who would lose out.
Downing Street will on Tuesday outline plans for a “rapid review” that will examine ways to guarantee that the House of Commons always has supremacy on financial matters, after the prime minister accused peers of breaking a constitutional convention. The move comes after peers voted in favour of a motion by the former Labour minister Lady Hollis to halt the cuts until the government produces a scheme to compensate low-paid workers for three years.
Mess at entitled Britain winning again, sob stories really do win over the fickle public.
The slashing of tax credits was reasonable, as a country we've created a society that relies on benefits, sometimes you have to suffer a bit to understand the privelage you have. If your one job is not suffice, get 2 jobs, stop wasting expenses on iPhones and the latest Nike trainors.
We could've funded other public services had the tax credits been abolished.
Mess at entitled Britain winning again, sob stories really do win over the fickle public.
The slashing of tax credits was reasonable, as a country we've created a society that relies on benefits, sometimes you have to suffer a bit to understand the privelage you have. If your one job is not suffice, get 2 jobs, stop wasting expenses on iPhones and the latest Nike trainors.
We could've funded other public services had the tax credits been abolished.
Mess at entitled Britain winning again, sob stories really do win over the fickle public.
The slashing of tax credits was reasonable, as a country we've created a society that relies on benefits, sometimes you have to suffer a bit to understand the privelage you have. If your one job is not suffice, get 2 jobs, stop wasting expenses on iPhones and the latest Nike trainors.
We could've funded other public services had the tax credits been abolished.
Mess at entitled Britain winning again, sob stories really do win over the fickle public.
The slashing of tax credits was reasonable, as a country we've created a society that relies on benefits, sometimes you have to suffer a bit to understand the privelage you have. If your one job is not suffice, get 2 jobs, stop wasting expenses on iPhones and the latest Nike trainors.
We could've funded other public services had the tax credits been abolished.
Mess at entitled Britain winning again, sob stories really do win over the fickle public.
The slashing of tax credits was reasonable, as a country we've created a society that relies on benefits, sometimes you have to suffer a bit to understand the privelage you have. If your one job is not suffice, get 2 jobs, stop wasting expenses on iPhones and the latest Nike trainors.
We could've funded other public services had the tax credits been abolished.
Yikes all you want but everything I said was the truth and all of you soft lefties know it
I'm sorry but if you can't live without tax credits then you are for a better words spoilt. You're missing out on £1300 a year? Oh cry me a river, just because your child can't have the latest iPhone or go to his extra curricular sessions, there are people actually living in REAL poverty in the rural areas of China.
This has now affected our government's seamless economic strategy (far better than anything Labour have ever proposed) which would've ultimately benefitted those families who were in low paid jobs, with the removal of the deficit which would've introduced a new national living wage.
But I forget that we live in a country that is a sucker for sob stories and demand instant gratification.
Yikes all you want but everything I said was the truth and all of you soft lefties know it
I'm sorry but if you can't live without tax credits then you are for a better words spoilt. You're missing out on £1300 a year? Oh cry me a river, just because your child can't have the latest iPhone or go to his extra curricular sessions, there are people actually living in REAL poverty in the rural areas of China.
This has now affected our government's seamless economic strategy (far better than anything Labour have ever proposed) which would've ultimately benefitted those families who were in low paid jobs, with the removal of the deficit which would've introduced a new national living wage.
But I forget that we live in a country that is a sucker for sob stories and demand instant gratification.
If you think everyone on TC uses it for iPhones and what not then that says more about you than the "soft lefties".
Yikes all you want but everything I said was the truth and all of you soft lefties know it
I'm sorry but if you can't live without tax credits then you are for a better words spoilt. You're missing out on £1300 a year? Oh cry me a river, just because your child can't have the latest iPhone or go to his extra curricular sessions, there are people actually living in REAL poverty in the rural areas of China.
This has now affected our government's seamless economic strategy (far better than anything Labour have ever proposed) which would've ultimately benefitted those families who were in low paid jobs, with the removal of the deficit which would've introduced a new national living wage.
But I forget that we live in a country that is a sucker for sob stories and demand instant gratification.
Your point is null when you cheaply generalise people in poverty in this country. There are countless families genuinely struggling to make ends meet who don't use benefits inappropriately.
Mess at entitled Britain winning again, sob stories really do win over the fickle public.
The slashing of tax credits was reasonable, as a country we've created a society that relies on benefits, sometimes you have to suffer a bit to understand the privelage you have. If your one job is not suffice, get 2 jobs, stop wasting expenses on iPhones and the latest Nike trainors.
We could've funded other public services had the tax credits been abolished.
France? The place with a marginal rate of 100% income tax? The place with the lowest retirement age? Economic dirigisme? Er OK then, you need a seat.
If you think everyone on TC uses it for iPhones and what not then that says more about you than the "soft lefties".
iPhones was a metaphor for anything materialistic or not necessary. What do they use that £1300, they'll lose, for then? Give me some stats sis, I'll be waiting
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Originally posted by Badger
Your point is null when you cheaply generalise people in poverty in this country. There are countless families genuinely struggling to make ends meet who don't use benefits inappropriately.
Poverty is when you can't afford the travel expenses to send your child to school. Poverty is when you don't have a roof under your head. Poverty is when everything you earn goes into putting food on the table. Oh no I can't afford to send my child to swimming club, I'm so poor!! If you want to see actual poverty go to the depths of Tanzania where children get ecstatic over receiving their own pencil.
Here's example x. This women puts on a show in front of the cameras to claim she is struggling. But from another interview you can clearly see she has a nice house, nice clothes and she is complaining that she can't send her child to swimming club? She also runs her own nail polish business and is complaining about her income. MOST people don't make much of an income from their own businesses, that's why most people have a job on the side
But of course her story got sensationalized and of course fickle Britain fell for it. I've done work experience for my local MP, I've volunteered in food banks. Day in day out I see people with iPhones, people with dogs, people in cars coming in, are they really living in poverty? I don't think so.
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Originally posted by Mean Trees
France? The place with a marginal rate of 100% income tax? The place with the lowest retirement age? Economic dirigisme? Er OK then, you need a seat.
What about all the people that have to use food banks to feed themselves and their family. Does that not speak volumes about the poverty in Britain?
Food banks are a complete con in my opinion. Free food helps support the black economy by subsiding low wages. It creates a dependency effect, pauperizing those in need even more, sort of like giving a drug dealing tramp more money to feed their inhibition.
I'm not rich btw. I go to a comprehensive and my parents together earn below the national average, I'm just giving you my rational viewpoint.
Food banks are a complete con in my opinion. Free food helps support the black economy by subsiding low wages. It creates a dependency effect, pauperizing those in need even more, sort of like giving a drug dealing tramp more money to feed their inhibition.
I'm not rich btw. I go to a comprehensive and my parents together earn below the national average, I'm just giving you my rational viewpoint.
Its getting more embarrassing and cringe worthy with your every post
If you want to see actual poverty go to the depths of Tanzania where children get ecstatic over receiving their own pencil.