More importantly PP tell me why hard working people are the ones struggling

And yes also. Tax evasion would reap more than persuing benefit fraud. We should persue both

Not turning it on young mums PP

You don’t get it

Nanny and dude have no problem with white people mugging us off but object to foreigners doing it

I am opposed to all of them mugging us off. I do not discriminate against people mugging me off.

Let’s get after the tax evaders too!

Agreed!

At least she has gone unlike dirty Tories

Again though, tax evaders come in different shapes and sizes. You're giving equivalence to a young mum (not sure what crime you think she's committed btw) to the likes of Dyson or Starbucks etc? Right wing politicians would be lapping up comments like that. Yeah, great. Turn your fire on the poor and the wretched. On the young, the migrants, the abused. They're just the same as the billionaires employing their accountants and lawyers.

ok, you're cool with the equivalence then.



great

With respect to you both (WD and PP), i think historically there is some justification in the 'keeping the legs closed' comment, saying that as even going back to the 80's it was a wheeze for young wans to get up the duff and get a council flat. Not sure how it applies today as very little availability particulary in 'better' areas. I can 'get' that comment.
Not being Mr Diplomatic but the argument going after the bottom rung and a free run for the rich is very fair too, really shouldn't be a problem at all but when times get tough there is just the one target and correct that the so called rich seems to always avoid paying more.

The rich always get away with it.  They even enlist the morons of the three word slogan brigade to fight their battles

Why would any working person with kids support the farmers in not having to pay inheritance tax?

Lapsy, it was an easy example to use and yes a cheap shot. My point is we are being ripped off. By many

“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
You never stfu

lapsy - I don't think it applies today. There's a mum who lived two doors from my mum who was kicked out of her private rented house last year. Her kids are now living with grandma while she's in a grubby hotel five miles away in town. Very very grim really.


And the keep your legs shut line is also one of those weird things that can only apply to women and never to men. When young men face the same responsibilities you'd soon see a change, but we're still quick to villainise women's actions while young men get a pat on the back and called a jack the lad.

It's all about carrot and stick for me. Politicians can only ever talk about the stick. But what is the incentive really? The price of childcare in this country is ridiculous. And then you add on the price of housing etc. If you're at home bonding with your baby, is it worth your while going out to a crappy min wage job, when you know that after childcare and transport you're maybe £10 a week better off than being at home? Is £10 the right price for not spending those hours with your child? Politicians just refuse to even see that argument but that's the real type of question people are asking. That's why people are living with their parents into their thirties and why the birth rate has dropped off a cliff. Till the decision makers see and understand what the population are living every day they'll never get it and will never fix it.

PP

I would get every pregnant girl who wants FREE accommodation the next 18 years to name the father so he can be DNA’s and made to contribute to his child’s care. If she can’t tell who the father is at least provide a list of say 5 names and start there

The father’s should pay! Not us the tax payer!

Hardly

Nobody is stopping them.

Why should they get a free flat for 18 years?

Shouldn’t the child’s father contribute?

Why should we be paying?

Prem Sikka
@premnsikka
The mortgage payments of  4.4m households to rise.

£500-a-month increases for the mortgages of about 420,000 households.

Will also increase rents.

Banks have cut interest paid to savers.

Profiteering but no regulator will act.



A country in tatters..