| The Spring Statement 07:23 - Mar 26 with 6754 views | onceablue |
I have never been this excited in my life
I wonder what Gems ‘Racheal from Accounts’ will come up with today.
If you receive any kind of benefits watch out. If you are a pensioner on benefits then you are really screwed
Unfortunately Labour made too many bold promises to get into power. They didn’t have to do that. The Tories on the back of their performance were a beaten party
Something is guaranteed dear old Racheal will mention the 22M black hole.
My guess is she will mention it at least 10 times.
Higher or lower?
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| The Spring Statement on 18:21 - Mar 26 with 571 views | DJR |
Interesting to see Ed Davey criticise the £5 billion welfare cuts and struggle when challenged with the fact that the coalition government made £20 billion welfare cuts. |  | | |
| The Spring Statement on 18:38 - Mar 26 with 525 views | DJR |
A further 150,000 people will lose their access to carer’s allowance – equivalent to one in 10 unpaid carers. The charity Carers UK said they were the “first substantial cuts to carer’s allowance in decades” and would cause “huge anxiety for hard-pressed carers and their families who need every penny they can get to pay their bills”. | | | |
| The Spring Statement on 18:53 - Mar 26 with 500 views | bluelagos |
| The Spring Statement on 18:21 - Mar 26 by DJR |
Interesting to see Ed Davey criticise the £5 billion welfare cuts and struggle when challenged with the fact that the coalition government made £20 billion welfare cuts. |
Ed Davey is self serving prick. He was my MP and against my better judgement I voted for him (a Lib Dem/Tory marginal) in 2010 - given my desire to elect anyone but a conservative locally.
He then went back on the pledge not to raise tuition fees (Given Kingston has shed load of students, I doubt he'd have won on a raising tuition fees manifesto)
I wrote to him (which I have done literally half a dozen times in my life - I have to be pretty vexed to make the effort) on the subject - and didn't even get a response.
Never voted Lib Dem since and wouldn't consider it with him as leader. |  |
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| The Spring Statement on 09:51 - Mar 28 with 315 views | DJR |
The SNP get a lot of stick on here but child poverty is falling in Scotland in contrast to rising in England and Wales. It is also lower at 23%, in contrast to 31% in England and Wales.
Prof Ruth Patrick, a professor in social policy at the University of York, said: “The progress Scotland has made on driving poverty rates down shows another way is possible. The UK government could lift 700,000 children out of poverty overnight by matching Scotland’s fiscal commitment to driving poverty down.”
The SNP is the only social democratic mainstream party in this country, and yet they get so much criticism in the press and elsewhere. [Post edited 28 Mar 9:53]
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