Current Affairs The Labour Party

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Jamiednm said:
At the end of the day, both political parties will appease billion-dollar companies regardless if they trample all over employees.

Its just a reminder, if you needed it, that there is no difference between political parties and all voting does is legitimise the broken political system, and allows these cowboys to do whatever they want.
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In this particular case I totally agree….
 
Thomasc said:
The WFA is the reason for this obviously.

Whilst it was a good idea to stop giving money to people who don’t need it, it was undoubtedly a bad decision so early into the new governments term from a PR perspective.
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It was a good decision as far as he and his flunkies are concerned. Right out of the Tory play book: suck up to big business and hammer those on low income.

He's been told by scum like Mandelson who he takes instruction off that you park your tanks on Conservative Party lawns and get re-elected that way.

Well we'll see in a few years time how that works out for him.
 
Aberblue said:
I can't understand why they didn't simply make it taxable.
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Because then they were hammered all the same for the % the pushed into whichever tax band... "I get £300 WFA and lost 50% to tax straight away"... "I get pushed into the next band of tax because of this and the triple lock, it'll cost me money to receive this benefit now" etc.

I reckon they took on means testing the WFA early to get the negativity out of the way, when the budget hits a few more much louder parts of the country their bet is it soon gets forgotten. Also the flip side of "more pensioners are claiming what they are due spurred on by the changes to WFA" etc.

Seems like those with the broadest shoulders means anyone except wealthy pensioners.
So what if a kid from a council estate who knew what it was to go hungry had to hold the tory governments feet to the fire over school meals for the poorest children, they don't vote after all. "If you can't afford to feed your children, don't look to me to. I'm alright jack!".
"What do you mean you've waited for nhs treatment? go private like I do."
"I have to find tax cuts for the billionaires, trickle down economics don't you know, cut off all nhs cancer care!".
"Thousands of schools unsafe with rac concrete? they weren't learning anything anyway, get em down the mines!".

Sadly there are no easy choices now, 14 years of fraud and lies and sunlit uplands and a few pints out with the lads has come home to roost. All that's left is pain and suffering and going without until the debt the tories loaded working families with is faced, addressed and reduced.

What would michelle mone and frank hester say around about now?
 
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