I didn’t get to see BBC Question Time last evening but the BBC have been exultant about this. Gosh, a “Conservative” who likes tax credits and who is ever so angry at the evil …erm…Conservative government. How fortunate that all Labour supporters are so happy about Mr Corbyn….
QUESTION TIME – RELIABLY BIASED.
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A comment on the Daily Mail website re the QT audience member who is upset about tax credit cuts and who I understood said she had voted Tory, suggested that we only have her word for who she voted for. Mr D says he read that she was receiving £240 per week in working tax credit. I had no idea people were receiving this level of money, of course it is unsustainable but understandable that people are fed up when it is cut. But it is also understandable that for me, paying large sums to the Exchequer and with a 10 year old mobile phone and a winter coat of a similar age am fed up when I see young women with expensive phones and expensive buggies and thinking, ‘I’m either paying for that or paying the interest that the government is paying for you to have that’.
The woman on question time said “I was originally a conservative”……
So how long has she been something else?
BBC smoke and mirrors?
That’s the effect of Brown’s burgeoning welfare state in action. Get everyone hooked on welfare and benefits so that they will vote for the party who will give them more, whether the country can afford it or not.
and people say calamity broon wasn’t a genius
It didn’t work, as he was trounced at the 2010 election, getting fewer votes for labour than John Major got in 1997…
AND he wrecked the economy, so….. No, he’s wasn’t a genius.
I didn’t watch the programme but from what I’ve read about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was a plant. I don’t think that the bbc would be above doing something such as that.
A plant?
Would that be a chlorophyll producing organism with an IQ of 14?
Or a Labour party voter with an IQ of 6 and a treason factor of 8126577?
To be more scientific. The average IQ for BBC Staff would be between 50 and 70. Which is officially classed as a Moron. A person able to work under supervision of someone with an IQ above 70 such as say the average British Afro-Caribbean, who have an average IQ of 85. The average IQ for White people outside of the BBC is 100, but there cannot be many White people at the BBC with an IQ above 70 because intelligent people do not buy the Guardian, and therefore they would rarely come across an advert for a job at the BBC.
There is evidence for purges of the few remaining white BBC employees with an IQ above 70. This is for critical comments which violate the politically correct left-wing dogma at the BBC, on issues such as Climate Change and losing your temper with a BBC employee, presumably because Oisin Tymon was a moron.
““I was originally a conservative” but only for the shillings it seems, I wonder if Essexman knows her?
She hates tories taking money off her, yet likes Corbyn? What? Is she utterly brain-dead. Does she not realise how much tax he will take from her? Presumably, she pays almost NO tax at all at the moment, and will pay even less next year. Labour pledged at the last election to re-introduce tax on the lowest paid workers.
The whole idea of taxing people to pay them benefits is crazy. it is bureaucratic, expensive and has caused massive hardship to those victims of state ineptitude, when the state calculated how much benefits were owed incorrectly. It makes very much more sense to NOT TAX THE POOR!
Tax credits are a tool to drag a majority of this country into the benefits trap, solely to bribe them to vote labour. Replacing them with tax cuts is the right policy.
Apart from 1) Leaving the EU and 2) Sealing our borders – the third thing on the country’s in-tray would be to sort out our chaotic welfare spending. We have to make hard choices but it’s been been kicked down the road for the last 20-30 years.
Housing Benefit, Tax Credits, ESA, JSA -all abused by greedy landlords and claimants alike with scarce any serious action by the government to tackle it.
Obviously the NHS has been terribly mismanaged and would be better off now just being put out of its misery. The State Pension is another thing successive administrations can guarantee less and less so they’re left with the hope and expectation that those old white people will die early.
It’s not so much a ‘managed decline’ as continuing negligence, incompetence or out-and-out treason.
Interesting article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11937376/Tory-voter-who-confronted-minister-over-tax-credit-cuts-may-not-be-affected-by-reforms.html
Being wary of newspaper articles, but even more wary of anything written by the bBC. The woman said with tears in her eyes ‘ I work bloody hard for my money’. She has 4 children, I quickly loose sympathy after 2. No mention of contributions from her separated husband. She runs a nail manicure business from home. ‘Works bloody hard’ customers come to her home and she sits and files their nails, must get back to my navvy job of digging up the roads, ‘a walk in the park’.
Even the hard left don’t seem to care
http://order-order.com/2015/10/16/owen-jones-tries-out-kinder-politics-on-twitter/
Since the industrious soul also confessed to having ‘lost 7 stone’ in her Telegraph interview – the implication being through worry, rather than reducing dependence on relatively expensive take-away food – perhaps she should count her blessings, and enjoy the comforting knowledge that she no longer represents a future burden on the NHS, thereby reducing the pressure on similarly ‘hard working’ and entrepreneurial multiple mothers.
At the same time, perhaps some research by HMRC might be directed at discovering what proportion of Tax Credits are used for the improvement and embellishment of fingernails, as opposed for example to the purchase of healthy food, by an apparently increasing number of recipients.
7 stone of muscle as well, no doubt, from all that hard work she does …
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I bet she does not accept Credit cards, Debit Cards, Western Union Transfers, Pay Pal.
Ref Michelle Dorrell, the telegraph articles quotes her as receiving £400 per week in benefits. And that she is unmarried and has four children.
So really the question that the bBBC should be asking is what right has she to lecture anyone? What right has she to expect other taxpayers to fund her lifestyle choices?
And in a week when unemployment came down by 79,000 why are the bBBC still pathetically affected by single situations no government can micro-manage rather than focus on the big picture.
I still think it was a setup though.