Poor families lose the £190 health in pregnancy grant and another £500 for second or more children. Child tax credit for babies is abolished – another £545 a year cut for the under-ones. Low-earning families will pay 10% more for childcare – another £780 a year. The nest egg child trust fund ends, a £500 loss. Working tax credits are frozen for three years: inflation makes that a 9% cut. Freezing child benefit for three years loses another 9%. Disabled families lose £9bn in benefits. All benefits fall by 2% a year, on a stealthy new CPI inflation measure. Now add in housing and council tax benefit cuts, at the extreme end ejecting tens of thousands from their homes, while social housing raises a \”market rent\” for new tenants.
We\’re going to stop paying for things that we shouldn\’t have been paying for in the first place.
Polly should think of it as the bailiffs coming round to take away what was bought on credit and not repaid.
Polly should think.
Wouldn’t it have been much better to maintain the current rates till the money, and available credit, ran out- then shut down government altogether? Isn’t that Polly’s plan?
It’s a start. If the dreadful Polly is upset, it must be good!
She really is one of the most hypocritical and repulsive (mentally – I don’t care for her face, but that’s not relevant) commentators around, therefore a great asset to the Guardian – both are well known for tax evasion.
Perhaps, as a result of what Polly bewails, we’ll see fewer tattoo parlours and betting shops in the poorer parts of our towns….