General Discussion
So......tax cuts for the rich but welfare cuts for the poor (that includes the working poor by the way). All in it together are we?
From today's Independent: "............Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said the benefits freeze would be bad news for working parents struggling on low wages and already coping with rising living costs and previous benefit cuts. “A couple both working full time on the minimum wage are nearly a fifth short of the money they need for basics; another freeze ...
And I'm sure many would agree that the Welfare Bill could do with being reduced. So howsabout people being paid a decent wage for starters. Would that help to reduce the amount of working tax credit/child tax credit being paid out do you think? And then there's the cost of housing. Lower rents = lower housing benefit bill perhaps?
Last week I was on holiday in the Peak District. On the Monday we visited Chatsworth House and marvelled at its splendour, its riches, its landscaped garden etc. This, however, is a diminished estate compared to what it was not so very long ago as much had to be sold off to pay a huge inheritance tax bill. Indeed, it was the inheritance tax bill which I believe led to it being opened to the ...
and just a bit further north and to the west a bit (Merseyside to be precise) it seems the 60+s who live there don't have to wait until they are of state pension age before they can get free travel on local buses, local trains and merseyside ferries. http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/Tickets/concessions/Pages/60+.aspx
Just got back from a week's holiday in the Peak District in Derbyshire. Thought I would bring this local day rover ticket scheme to your attention - The Derbyshire Wayfarer. It is one ticket that enables a person to make many bus and train trips through Derbyshire on a single day. The ticket can also be used to make some trips to and from certain places outside the county as long as the journey ...
Have a read; http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/12/mps-expenses-under-fire http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/house-of-lords-is-no-longer-a-place-for-fine-dining-peers-gripe-9102580.html
Well, it seems them wots at Westminster may be thinking otherwise (you can sort of understand the Scots saying that Westminster is totally out of touch, can;t you?). I wonder how many people who were, and who presently are, MPs and who are,age wise, eligible to do so actually use a bus pass? Maybe I should rephrase that to how many of them actually need to use a bus pass? This talk of means ...
and it would have to be a wall, wouldn't it? I mean, border control checks on just the roads and rail lines would be no good as there is so much open countryside along which the border of England and Scotland runs that it would be child's play to cross over from one country to the other that way. No need to travel by rail or road at all. Talking of border countryside. I was just idly ...
Rebuilding of the wall eh? Well........it would certainly bring some employment to the north of England!
