just danger for people he will cause more crime,he should stop going to war than think about tax credit people,should stop him he has no idea is bully,gordon 100 more better than DC.

Gordon better than Cameron

Cameron doesnt realise how it will effect low incomine families such as myself,child tax credits may not be much but it certainly helps!

Vote Labour!

I will vote labour. Ok we’re on recession but that’s not Labour’s fault, it’s the whole damn world! Cameron is wrong on the tax credits issues. The man doesn’t have a clue. Long live Labour.

DC disgusts me, He and his wife, been from a stingy rich, they have no idea how the rest of us who live in ‘ the real world’ have to make ends meet on dailly basis!

I am a ft working first time mum, getting tax credit even not that much but its still makes a different to my end of a month wages!Oh yeah as a foreigner in this country who nearly was deported back to my war driven country by the CONSERVATIVE When John major was the Prinister) its very hard for me as a foreigner to ever turn and vote for these racist party! Although,there is still alot of work that needs to be done by the Red Party, including, on crime rates in London, More tight immigration rules and Labour does need bring more tight laws im place with the current youth crimes and teenage pregnancies! and off course I dont think the The Pound should go Euro!SO Vote For Labour!

I really wish i could give DC a piece of what i think of ist Party in person! and where will he be putting the tax credits money, in his pocket off course, with his wife expecting another baby! i bet she’ll be getting more than our all of child tax credits! like me i am hoping he wont get a vote from any mothers struggling in the UK (unless they rich like him off course!)

DAVID CAMERON all the way because he may be cutting tax credits but only for those who can live without it such as those who have an income of over 50 000 pounds !!!!!

EDITOR ADDS: Actually Natalie the proposal is for joint incomes of £50k – for instance £25k each – and their figures don’t add up so it could well be as low as £16k each. It sounds like you’ve been Conned!

I am a single working my who earns less than 16k. If I had a partner + had 30k between us then I wouldnt need tax credits! More help 4 the families that need it I say!

Im a single mum and i am currently studying and working voluntary in a placement to get a good job so i can support myself and daughter. I could not afford to live with out my tax credits i already find it a struggle now.I think it will cause serious reprocutions for some families and is a mistake.

I am scared now; if the conservatives cut tax credits, I won’t be able to afford to carry on working, I would have to go on benefits. How is that going to help. The conservatives are for the upper class the’re not here to help the lower classes. The rich get richer ther poor get poorer!!

i am not happy no tax credits and i will not be able to work they dont want us on benefits what do they think we are going to have to do

For Gods sake, do people not seem to understand that he’s only stopping tax credits for couples jointly earning 50k!! if your on that type of wage then losing £10 per week is nowt, so stop whinging everyone

what cameron should be thinking about is taking money from the rich instead of the poor.
im a single mum and relie on tax credits towards my 15 month son i cant go back into work as i have no one to care for my child an he wont stay with strangers he is very shy an very clingy.
takin away tax credits will be stupid. Homeless people numbers will rise an they be more likely mother an children out on the street as they wont be able to afford anythin cause CAMERON has taken the most source of income.
You look at footballers earning thousands an thousands pounds an hour, when kids play that game for free out on a field. its diabolical and unjust

ha you all go on about working tax credits and child tax credits . what about us folks that are not entitled to any help . i work 20hrs a week and do i get any help do i heck i got to pay full rent then i have bills then i have food and travel the only discount i get is single person for my council tax . all the food i buy is discounted and put straight in the freezer . not easy trying to furnish a flat when you have been homeless yeah you have homeless aids but even trying to find £200 to help get things then feed yourself for the next month and get yourself to work not easy but hey do you know what i do it

EDITOR’S REPLY: You would get tax credits if you worked 30 hours or more.

I am really scared now. I know DC says he will cut tax credits for people earning 50k or more but I just don’t trust him, especialy as Lib Dems want to cut it more. I am a mum of two, working full time for the NHS (so yeah, I face a double whammy – I may lose my job and my tax credits). I already work as many unsocial hours as I can to make ends meet, if I don’t get my tax credits I will not be able to pay my mortgage and feed and clothe my kids. He says single parents are a burden on tax payers. I didn’t choose to become single, my ex is now on his third marriage but because he has that little piece of paper, he is apparently the very backbone of society that is going to put this country back on its feet. Do me a favour!!

david cameron is a c***. he has no idea what this wud do to single working mums. lets face it he never spends time with his kids, i;
‘d b suprised if he even saw them. his wife is a stuck up bitch tht again prob never sees the kids so wat do this t**t about how to bring up kids. some ppl need tax credits to help them

Damnn I don’t understand as earning 50k annual and worrying to be stopped 1.45pence per day benefit.

i work and claim child tax credits, without them i would loss £90 per week on child care although i like to work rather than claim benefits it wouldnt be possible, people say they only get discounted counciltax and to stop whining i dont get discounted council tax so why should they then. Every body except those in high paid jobs would welcome any help I pay taxes so people can get free prescription discounted council tax etc etc yet people have the cheek to try and make me feel guilty it aint just £10 per week I really wish it was then i wouldnt care.

i just wish Gordon the best and the rest of labour and message to conservative voters they choose the rong man.

david should stop going to Afghanistan and doing one good thing for his life.

david is a bully

I am a single mum of three and work 30 hours per week and a lot of my money comes from working tax credits. I won’t be affected because I don’t earn enough. Surely people earning 25k don’t need help.I used to struggle by on £100 per week trying to support three kids but I did it. Surely the extra money would be better of helping those on low incomes. If you can’t afford to have a mortgage for a house then don’t buy one there are lots of other options, not everyone has the luxury of being able to afford a house. 25k is more than enough to pay rent, council tax etc. the problem is we live in a society where people are used to having handouts. Maybe there should be courses for people to go on to learn how to budget properly and prioritize their money. I bet some of those moaning have luxuries like cars, mobile phone contracts etc….mmmmm interesting this

Im gutted DC is our new pm im a single mum of two and rely on my tax credits and i agree with an above comment that i just dont trust him the next 4 years are going to be tough on all the lone parents out there. . DC + NC = DISASTAR!

I think all you single mums hsouuld count yourselves bloody lucky!!! you get all the beneifts on offer and still will!! we get penalised kjust for being a couple we dont earn huge amounts and have 2 children and i pay 90% of my wage packet just to put them into childcare whereas you all pretty much get it free, stop complaiing and count yourself lucky!

i am currently a single parent and pregnant i am studying at college so i get child tax credits and income support if ctc stops ill hav £50 a week to live on is that right?? i would love to go back to work but whose goin to hire apregnant woman and now i wont be able to once my babys born!! i have worked stopped a year ago coz i was goin to college!!

Hey, I think some people need to calm down. I am married with three children. As a baker i earn £14k a year. My wife does not work as we made a decision that we did not want anyone else bringing our children up. Now I get 13 working tax payments of £135 a year, my wife 13 payments of £565 a year. Now to save you the trouble I have a annual income of £25k with these and child benefits. We have a mortgage, sky HD, mobile phones etc. A 1 year old car bought cash. Now we dont have a lot of spare cash come the end of month but we do ok. My wife is training to be a paramedic and when the kids are older she has every intention of going back to work. If we can survive on £25k a year I really dont understand where some people are coming from saying its a deal breaker if the tories stop credits for those earning over £32k. Its all to do with lifestyle and under new labour we have been encouraged to spend, borrow and then spend some more. Its down to the individual taking responsability for themselves and not jumping on the bandwagon and blaming other people for there own poor money management.

only the rich are getting happy this way. i don’t know what Cameron is thinking ?!

Why do the middle and lower class families been hurt most again ?

me & my partner have 2 young children. i work & she looks after the kids. If they cut tax credits we wouldnt be able to afford to live, we struggle now. we would be better off on benefits if we received any less. i donr a bit of homework a while back 7 if i worked 16hrs a week instead of 40 i wold be £20 worse off a week. 24hrs more work for £20 thats equivalent to less than a pound an hour. also i earn a pound over national minimm wage. if i were on National minimum wage i would be £5 worse off a week. i feel you make the effort to to get a better job & for what. i refused a payrise last week as whats the point theyl just deduct it off the tax credits. the system is useless.

Hi everyone, this is my take on everything. My husband works full time and I work part-time. I am in the middle of being made redundant and know if this happens, me and my family will need tax credits to help us through this time. Even with my my husband and i working, we still struggle financially. Also I would like to have as much input in my childrens lives whilst they are young, I dont want to work all the hours and find my children have grown up and I have neglected them. Therefore I need the tax credits so that I can carry on working part-time and bring my children up.

As a young family with children, I feel we don’t get much support, the support is there for single parents, but if you are married and in a stable relationship the government doesn’t want to help you.

Alot of families are struggling now, not just single parent families. It is only fair that all families are given support by the government, not just single parent families. I know people are saying they don’t choose to be single parents, but that is just a cop out. If you don’t control your own life and the decisions you make in your life, who controls them for you?

I like the fact David Cameron wants to help families such as mine, its about time we got some recognition.

I do sympathise with single parent families. I agree, being a single parent isn’t always something that can be avoided, but my advice would be use birth control and dont have children until you are 100% sure of your relationship.

At the end of the day what it boils down to is, we all make decisions in our lives. To get married, not to get married. To have kids or not to have kids. To buy a house or to rent. Etcetera. Whatever we decide we have to live with the consequences of our decisions. We cannot expect the state to be responsible for us because we are single parents or we cannot afford to pay our mortgage.

Like I said, my husband and I struggle financially, but we make do. The mortgage and the important bills are paid and some weeks we do a bare minimum food shop and eat potatoes, beans and other basic foods. Thats how we survive. I am a qualified teacher, but I choose not to work full-time because I want to bring my children up. That is the choice we have made, and we live with the consequences of this choice, namely the fact that we have less money to live on!

i think its disgusting how some people talk about single parents like there scum and especially the one thats says you make ya own decisions. what a laugh a woman could be getting beaten or cheated on ya saying thats there fault get a life!!!

I can’t believe my eyes! I’m guessing that the last but one comment was made by ‘Anonymous’ due to the fact that they know they are talking out of their arse and wish to avoid being argued with personally?

I have a 6 month old baby. I am a 31 year old single parent and OF COURSE I DID NOT CHOOSE TO BE A SINGLE PARENT! Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a reliable partner like you! Mine proved reliable until I became pregnant and then went off the rails with drugs so I had to do it alone! I can not believe the cheek of you, you are a prime example of a BIGOT! I hate narrow minded people such as yourself, and to think you are a qualified teacher? Goodness me that’s what I’m trained in too and shoot me down if you think I want someone like you teaching my child!!! Politics or not, you are plainly out of order with your statements about single parents, it is purely stereotypical with no consideration for individual circumstances whatsoever! Wake up and smell the coffee, SOME or maybe MOST women do NOT choose it, think about women who have been raped, beaten, cheated on as per above comment! You live in a little fantasy world of your own by the sounds of it and should NOT be posting comments on a site when you know nothing about the subject you small-minded BIGOT!

How can people judge single mums, I never asked or wanted to be a single mum, but unfortunately for me my partner turned out to be a complete twat, I lost my home over mine and my sons head because of him and had to declare myself bankrupt and became homeless, and to top it off my son has behavioural problems that have not been diagnosed yet. Many other people may of cracked, but through all of this I carried on working, Until unfortunately last year I got made redundant and had no choice but to go on benefits. Its hard now he has started school,to find a employer who will let you do 10am – 2pm. I have no one else to help me as my immediate family do not live close by. I hate being out of work and have worked all my life from the age of 16 non stop for over 20yrs.

I did not want conservatives in as they take from the wrong people. and probably the likes of me and other people like me will suffer. Labour were working class where as conservatives are all for the rich.

I think certain people should think twice when calling single mums, we for some reason always get judged and pointed at it makes me angry

David Cameron has not got the foggiest idea of how to run this country. The sad fact is people that did benifit from labour should have voted for them, they didnt yet will moan about it. God help us with the CONservatives in power. 100% Labour!!!

My husband works full time and we have three kids younger one is only one old.I cant go on work because i cant afford child care which cost you £170 a week. If you go on work and get £150 aweek. How can you afford it. I get tax credits which help me a lot. If DC stoped child tax credit i dont know what shall i do. DC disaster

Its very fair that child benefit and child tax credit be removed for couples earning over 50K. However, the hardest time a family face are the early years before school. Where childcare bills are fierce! I paid 1250per month for my 2 kids for 4 yrs and although I dont have that payment now, im still paying back over 650pm to my credit cards per month!! If families are given help for the younger years when these bills are highest, then we would certainly think about bringing another well brought up child into this world. This in turn would help with issues such as aging populations where there will be more pensioners than workers paying tax! Also it would mean that broken Britain will be helping repair the yob culture by balancing those who have children to get money, against those who would love to bring up a well supported child, who is taught how to work and respect each other!!! Families should be rewarded for staying together and childcare support would provide this. Alternatively provide low interest loans for those wanting a family which will help meet the cost of childcare. So that we wouldnt have to pay as much as 3 times back! Just maybe, with an increase of wanted and supported children, there would be less tragic cases of abused and neglected children and Broken Britian would be a little less broken!

I am a single mum of 1, 27 and find it ever so hard as it is. Yes get housing benefit and single person discount, but come June when i start my new job that will change, full rent, childcare for nursery and as i wont finish till 8pm sometimes 10pm I will have to pay for a child minder as well sending her to dance class, so as she gets older is off the streets. Do you honestly think DC is gonna be helping me??

BEING SINGLE MUM IS HARD BUT SHES BETTER OFF WITHOUT HER DAD!!!! we are not scum.

I am a working mum who is struggling on less than 4k ayear earnings, i actualy agree if you earn 50k a year why do you need tax credits it should be for people on lower incomes as long as it dosent stop for the peole who actualy need it.

it only affects you if you have an income in your household of 50k a year! which is fair enough.

i think these people who say what we all moaning at single parents on benefits and we get everything paid for us should f..k off they dont know how hard it is to be a single parent at 21 trying to make ends meet they say i work this n that and my wife works this and that well guess what all us SINGLE parents work 24 f.kin hours without any help from the other half its just hands on all the time u all have some cheek all single mothers deserve a medals dc is an idiot hes even going on about cutting pensions my poor nan will freeze in the winter theyl cut her pension and the cold weather payments or will that be her fault coz shes old and cant work????? all u who say we get everything paid and etc should take a long look at ur lives and a long look at someone like mine judging ppl like us ur all stuck up bas..rds

i love labour and i loved gordon brown he did a lot free swim passes for swimming was brilliant its a real shame he lost out to a slug and a fly the slug being david cameron n the fly being clegg flyin round him like a fly does to s..t well u conservative voters will soon b sorry all the yong ones who voted coz they liked there ties or didnt like gordons eye get a grip u dont remember what it was like under cons wen they took the milk off the children enough respect for gordon brown and family its a real shame weve lost a great leader xxx labour forever xxx

Of course they’re saying there’s no need to worry, we’ll only stop tax credits for the better off. Somewhere though, is the small print. I fear we’ll all be reading it soon.

We’ve had the sweeteners, for what they’re worth. Now Cameron is donning his hobnail boots and putting the pics of Thatcher on his mantlepiece. There’s a Tory budget coming.

Why do these sort of debates always turn into a single parent bashing!!! Get real peeps many lone parent families I know produce better behaved and well rounded children than two parent families I know. And I though this was about tax credits

I think that maybe DC getting in might be a good thing. Think about it, if people aren’t getting enought hand outs for having children then maybe it will stop people having children so that they do not have to work. I know that this does not apply to everyone, but there are people out there who do go out and have children so that they do not have to work.

And I know it’s not everyone, as I said, however I know a girl who is 19, the first thing she said to her mother when she told her she was pregnant (at 18) is that she would have to give up work now… Realy that is not the attitude to have. Now the baby is nearly four months old, her boyfriend works full time while she sits on her arse all day to get full benefits, she has nothing to pay for as she lives with an auntie, only nappys and milk, and most of the time family will buy these things for her. She went out and bought an iPod touch with her child tax credits…. good parenting for you. And will also leave the baby with anyone who will have him.

Now one of you people tell me why my tax money should be going towards paying for this girl to go out and buy ipods and sit on her bum all day?!

I work 2 jobs to make ends meet, and I only get a small amount a month more than she does, only difference is I have bills to pay, she just squanders her money on herself.

There needs to be an end to this something for nothing culture.

i have 4 children aged between 10 and 1 year like everybody else we also rely on tax credit as my husband ony works 12 hours per week and having 4 children thats not enough and by stopping tax credit things will be very difficult so i think dc should think about people on low income and not the rich if not that then he needs to think about the children whos parents are on low income as im sure he gets all his kids what they want so why should we make our kids suffer dc think about people on low income and not the rich

I think society has gone down the drain! im 19 and a single parent of a 1 year old and about to have another. makes me laugh how people moan at those young people on benefits! where is the motivation for them to go out and work when there is no jobs?! look how many older people have been made redundant in the past 2 years?! tax credits play a big part in peoples lives despite their income. i rely on them as a single parent who needs to feed and clothe my daughter. but then my mum would rely on them too if she was actually entitled to them. her and my step dad both work full time, have themselves and my 2 brothers to feed and clothe, pay bills and rent and council tax to pay. think this whole governments policies needs to be looked at again with a fine toothcomb and sorted out big time!

I think that people who earn 30k should not receive any TC. If people didn’t live beyound their means then they wouldn’t need to relie on TC. I earn 13k ayear with one child have a morgage and work f/t..without the tax credits i get i would be screwed too!!I think they should not give to those on 30k or more and give a bit more to people like me and the other millions alike. Stop giving to those that can work and stop letting others into the country that come here with nothing!!

i am disgusted there even thinking of getting rid of child tax credit. my husband was paid of early in october and i only work part time we still cant afford the luxuarys that we should be able to afford as we are working. if child tax credits is compleatly taken away the biggerst part of the nation will end up on benefits. i was led to believe the ctc was going to be assessed on your current curcumstances. its amazing how all these people on benefits have every mod con on the market yet these people who are working their guts out cant afford to buy there kids the things that they want or even need. other benefit systems should be looked into. totally disgusting…should have stuck with gordon brown even tony blair did a better job.

It’s not fair that the middle class get penalised. Me & my hubby work full time I have been promoted several times and there are people who get the same amount of tax credits and child benefit than my monthly wage – how is that fair?? The message is don’t go out and find a good job and don’t work hard as we will give it to you for nothing!!
I would love to be a stay at home mum but I also like to teach my child that you have to work to get the things you want – its just very demotivating that people get handouts and their standard of living is increased to the same standard as ones who have worked up the ladder. Why bother bettering yourself??

just heard today that they may cut child tax credits completely and a freeze on benefits.
Am a single mum with a child starting secondary school in september.I get working tax crredits and child tax credits. If they make this cuts along prob with housing benenit,I dont know what I would do. I struggle enough allready.
this cuts are very wrong.

Cameron is not in touch with reality and the strugle average people like myself have to go through.

We need someone to speak up for us

gettin sick of coming home from work to work shy scumbags drinking stella in the sun. If he takes tc away my family would be knackered, my partener and i work ft and still cant afford even to clothe our selves properly, i can assure u the last time i went shopping was about august last year. Thats with tc what would happen without them, i would end up naked lol

Its not just single Mums. My partner works 40 Hours a week. To make ends meet he would do more if the hours were there. If they stop tax credits that will mean I will have to go to work also to make ends meet. So who will then bring up my children child carers who cost and I don’t want that. My tax credits make sure I can be a stay at home Mum till my Children go to School. Its not fair I gave birth to them i want to bring them up and have a life with my partner. If we both have to work the kids will never see us and we won’t see each other. I wanted to start a family if we have to struggle and don’t see each other, where is our Family.

i am a married mother of 2 children aged 2 and 8 months, my husband is a self employed builder, our earnings are £10,000 per year with my husband bringing the money in, with the tax credits aswell we only just very scarsly get by, i am a full time mother and even with tax credits cannot afford child care to enable me to go to work and have no family who desnt work to rely on, my childen rely on me being there for them 24/7. if i worked and we earnt even £30,000 we wouldnt need tax credits, but we do not earn that! so i hope DC is telling the truth about the over £50,000 for tax credits cuts. its criminal thst people who earn that sort of money are givin tax credits surly people who are big earners dont need tax credits and that money could be put to better use? we rely on our tax credits as we have always paid full amount for everything and struggled we have never been on benefits of any sort. i really am prayering that tax creits will not change for those with low earnings who need it.

If everyone knew david cameron would cut costs in tax credits and child benefits why did people vote for them

I am worried sick – not only about being paid off from local authority job but also about tax credits stopping or being reduced -I am single parent – ex wont work cause would mean having to pay CSA. I am the one financially, emotionally and practically supporting my 2 young children and I am worried – we all know hes going to do it – hes a bloody Tory!

my mums panicking as is near at pension age. let him go ahead and lets see crime go up. i’d be the first one committing crime if my daughter was going without. why should she go to school seeing other kids get things when she can’t it’s already bad enough. me and my partner have both been seeking work to increase the chances of getting a job but from sounds of thing it’s not going to make a difference and there’s going to be a lot of people being made redundant. lets just hope the outcome doesn’t end up being to bad. we’d see on the 22nd.

totally ridiculous! IS it really our fault that the governments’in such a bad state as it is. Why doesnt he just leave the children, housing and education factors out of this. These are the crucial areas which the government should not get involved with in the least! Yes..they can easily increase the cuts elsewhere, THE OLYMPICS FOR STARTERS! THE HOMES OFFICE THE FOREIGN OFFICE. increase the cuts in those areas and leave well alone the important ones!!! why oh why is he our pm? how many times …stick with labour!! conservatives are a heartache…

my husband was made redundant in October last year. He has sent off over 800 CV’s and only had 3 interviews from them. He applied for a street cleaner’s job, you know, just so he could work until he found a higher paid one. There were 230 applicants!
Life on the dole for some people like us is a life of misery.We’ve sold everything possible just to fill up the freezer. We’ve gone without food just so that the kids can eat. The child tax credit goes on gas,elec,water,tv licence, kids dinners and kids bus fairs, and if I’m lucky I’ll have £10 to put food in the cupboard.My children are too old to qualify for free dinners and bus travels passes. Life for us is no picnic and it’s degrading because we have people like some of you on here looking us up and down.
We don’t drink, we don’t smoke. We have no luxuries.We don’t even have a home phone, or sky tv.We live from week to week just trying to make ends meet.
Not all of us ’spongers’ are beer swilling, child producing no hopers. This time last year my husband was on a good wage, I was training to be a teachers assistant, but then my husband lost his job and I couldn’t carry on with my course because I couldn’t afford the next level. Contary to what people believe. Free courses are only available to the under 25’s.we’re both in our early 40’s.
So next time some of you on here decided to come out with rubbish about the easy life on dole, come and walk a mile in my shoes.

It never surprises me that when the government of the time make changes that effect peoples money people end up complaining about those that they believe are already getting all the help they need, why attack eachother or agree to take anything away from anyone, we all know they say there’s going to be hard times ahead though if we all come together (which they don’t expect) we can atleast help eachother by not fretting about what you believe someone else already has as we all know it takes along time to accumulate anything though such ashort time to lose everything, so please people let’s demand more not less,look forward not back, money is unlimited life is not! People lose it when they don’t see no way forward an those who are seen to have the most will lose the most if people take to the streets.

I think David Cameron should cut tax credits and most benefits. Between myself and my partner (i am 25, he is 24) we bring home £2300 a month which helps us to pay rent, bills, petrol etc…..
“Oh easy for you” some of you may say. No actually because i made the responsible decision to not have children yet, i want to do it the TRADITIONAL way and get married first and be with someone at least 5 years before we have kids. Because that way i will know what kind of person they are, i.e capable of domestic violence or drugs. Too many young girls like the 19 year old posted above, fall pregnant all too easily and i get taxed heavily from my hard earnt wage to pay for them! I voted for conservative and completely agree with them, it’s about time someone stopped these benefits and i think it’s a brilliant idea for people to do community service to earn their benefits. Now some of you will know what it is like to work. :)

To echo the sentiments of the last comment, I entirely agree. For how many on this comments page voted Tory? Better yet did not vote at all? I personally saw this coming, it was always inevitable that if the tories got back into power, that with it financial assistance would follow, I am surprised that they have decided to undertake this so early in their administration, and can only hope, that such is the public outcry over such cuts, the idea is either reigned in substantially, or abandonned altogether. Too many people rely on tax credits to remove them, they have become a part of our fiscal fabric. In removing tax credit’s there is a risk of a return to recession, with families less inclined to, and or unable to spend, consumer confidence will surely suffer, and in turn so will the economy, as families begin to decide they cannot afford that extra item of clothing, or product. I believe the impact of this policy has been ill-thought out.

If he cuts tax credits my family is screwed. My husband works full time, im a full time mum(youngest is 4 months) who will be back at work in 2 months. Without tc i cant afford to pay my rent bills….i am dreading the budget…maggie thatcher part 2….

and i did vote labour…i remember what the last tory gov did

Just a little comment here for the baker earning 14k and yet having an annual income of 25k, well done. It must be so rewarding to have 16k of tax payers money. My husband pays a thousand pounds a month in stoppages so people like you can choose for your wife to be a stay at home mum. You are not supporting your family, we are. My husband works 40odd hours a week and we couldnt afford to pay cash for a new car. You are a disgrace and should have your benefits stopped. You talk about people living beyond their means, well what are you doing?? That money you invested into your car was stolen from hard working people and their children. We don’t drink or smoke or take holidays abroad and just about get by. its a joke that some people on here think that those earning 30k+ are well off because its not true. We have to pay out £60 a month from September so that our son can catch the bus to high school, if he were on free dinners, (like Mr Bakerman’s kids) we would get it free. This country is a joke, we got screwed over by labour and now looks the same from conservatives. It doesn’t pay any more to get an education and get a so called good job. Hard working tax payers get hit every time. Just one question. What happens when all of the country’s worker ants have dropped dead from exhaustion. Who’s going to pay for your Sky HD then? How can you live with yourself? Where’s your self respect? Stop poncing and start contributing. I couldn’t live with myself if I were you.

im a single mum i find life so hard to cope, kids need clothes i have bills like most if my child tax gets stopped living will be impossible. Middle class people dont need it that much, lower class families depend so much on child tax and working tax.

Dear “Traditional Tiff” – I hope life continues to be kind to you but try not to be judgemental, insulting and narrow minded. – I wish you good luck in your charmed, planned out life!

Although I am sure he is far too busy cultivating his masterplan for a divisive Britain, built on inequality, I really do hope that somewhere along the line his people find their way to this web page,and bring it to his attention, so that he can learn for himself the strength of feeling at ground level. Apparently, members of the public are to be consulted over cuts the government wants to make, along with unions etc. I would love to know the demographic involved, as I bet it will not be anyone who stands to loose the most through these proposed cuts. Note to all the taxpayers out there, I pay tax, along with a great proportion of other people who pay tax and receive tax credits, if you are fortunate enough to be beyond claiming tax credits because your take home is too high, do not take away from the people who fail to meet the same mark, as like it or not when in receipt of tax credits you still pay your taxes, and so like you, we bailed out the banks, and supplemented the very system which supports our standard of living so that we may live and not survive, to the high wage earner’s I applaude you, unfortunately not everybody is capable of acheiving the same level. Tax credits should never be confused with the welfare state, as it is a government contribution, which for the best part is available to all who fit the criteria, it is not necessarily for the can’t work work won’t work amongst us. As right to reply to a poster above (Tiffany) Great that the “White picket fence dream,” you carved out for yourself is working, I sincerely hope that when you do choose to have children, that biology is on side, not everybody thinks in the same way, and for some people having children sooner rather than later is their best/only option, for the rest, well there are the financial implications of having children later, such as the amount an expectant mother is likely to cost the NHS goes up with age, as pregnancy is more precarious the older you are, to judge the age at which a woman has a child is only acceptable below the age of consent, hence as to why an age of consent exsists, although it does not necessarily insinuate that procreation must occur at 16, it is recognised in law that it is the lowest limit that it should occur, Having had my fist child at 25, I am perfectly placed to make this point, and to say in turn, to have a child at 19 is an individuals perrogative, whether financially viable or not, just as it is any womans right to choose when to have a child. There is never a right time to have children, any parent can tell you that.

what cameron want to do is not good.cutting tax credit for family people who got chidren is not fair. so that how people gona survi
ve, every body are not rich.think about what you are doing tanks.
my self i got 4 kids and i work 20 hours a week how i will affording with out tax credits.
tanks

hi life w’ont be easy for me with 4 kids with out tax credit.i do 20 hours a week i have to paye rent concil tax food cloth for my self and the kids bills such as water tv licence electric, gas, homeline
etc… tell me how much i will be left better then to go on benefit no choice tanks.

If you read what has been said you will find it will not affect most of the above. Only those that don’t need tax credits will have it cut. It is a means tested benefit and at the moment from what I have read it will only affect those who’s income exceeds 40k per annum. I doubt any of you including me earn that much.

I am a single parent of three through no fault of my own and I work. Without tax credits I would loose my home and probably have to give my job up too. I do see how the press can sometimes miss important information out.

i don’t agree with stopping the tax credits it will leave a lot of people in debt with having less money. i won’t be voting conservatives as i don’t agree with their policies.

think about what your doing if you cut child benifits and increase taxes most people will be poor i’m a 12 year old girl and i can see this so called idea of yours going wrong. most count on child benifits to support their children and help live their so before you make any decisions you should take this into account :(

well tiffany thats a load of shit some people get pregnant on the pill and using a condom hope ur not one of them cos that will spoil your nice little fairytale plan im a single mother upto my eyes in debt because the money i get with the benefits just isnt enough its a struggle but i get by the ex wont work cos he dont want to pay anything so its all down to me to keep a roof over our heads and food in our mouths nappys wipes etc and without child tax credit id be homeless so lets just hope tiffany that you dont loose your job or fall pregnant cos then you will know what its like to struggle

Hi, there are all sorts of views and oppinions and everyone wants their say. yes there are stupid lowlifes and careless people that have kids just to get a house and for free money so they dont have to work, there are people struggling, working their butts off to meet ends meet, and there are people like me and my partner. He was a single dad when i met him because his ex didnt want their son when they split, i was working when we got together but my hours were cut alot so i had to quit as i had moved in with him and his son in their council property which on my poxy wage wouldnt have paid rent and council tax, turns out just after i left my job i found out i was pregnant, so now we are a family on benefits with 2 children. my partner cant find a job because several reasons (and all stuck up nobs that think thats just an excuse can go jump coz they dont have a clue) and only me havin a job would be pointless coz my wage alone wouldnt pay for everything. do u think we like being bums with no jobs and no money for leisure!? NO. And then u get snobs that were born with a silver spoon in the mouth like DC that dont give a damn about peoples different situations, all upperclass stick together dont they, f*** the poor, its pepole like us that give money to charitys (coz we give a damn coz we no wot its like to live in the real world) whilst the rich get richer and tighter!!! They want us to get jobs but we cant coz some foreigner will do it for peanuts to send back home to the family whilst slummin it in some BnB or been given a FURNISHED house WTF!? (no offence to all foreiners who live and work properly in this country, as i am the result of an asylum seeker myself!)Theres no balance in this country as far as money, help people who need it and people who dont need help, help others aswell!!! cutting benefits wont help anyone (sorry for the rant)

Just totally agree with Zoe in the comment a few above. Only I just hope what happened to me happens to “Traditional Tifany” and see if she would be so judgemental then. I got married before I had my kids worked, owned my own house, had holidays. Only my husband turned into a complete ###### Now I have no house, no holidays and no job and lets just say life is not easy being a single mother of three children. I rely on tax credits and benefits to help me feed and cloths my children. unless Tiffany can see into the future she should keep her oppinion to herself

Can we please stop slating single mums. I am single mum out of NO choice as my husband left me for another woman after 10 years of marriage so i was left to bring up my child and in all fairness he pays maintenance towrards my child and i receive tax credits and also work 37 hours a week so i pay my taxes!!

i’m a single mother but not because i choose to be. becoz the goverment made me single. they kicked my husband out the country back to australia as they wouldnt let him live here for no reason what so ever! so i am now bringing up my 4 month old baby alone becoz of the goverment and now he wants to stop child tax to screw me up even more. isnt he just wonderful?

Lets make it clear that noone is a clairvoyant, in regards to ‘traditional tiffanys’ comment i wonder what kind of cloud she has planted herself on as her ideal of reality isnt very ‘traditional’ at all these days. I am a mother of one at age 22, im not a single mother but i could well be one day. I have been with my partner for years but people change and relationships break down this is life, this is reality, noone chooses to find some themselves in difficult situations, without a partner, and their kids not having a father, dont be so naive tiffany, your idea of reality is very warped, im sure single mothers of the world once believed that their relationships would work out and that they would be playing happy familys with a brillant career, car, holidays and happy life, not everyone is so fortunate, some people arent even fortunate enough to have children in this world so what makes you think that when you try for a baby your automatically going to get one, it doesnt work like that. also you could well get married but most marriages these days end in divorce, i wouldnt slate single mothers if i were you, karma comes around and you may find yourself there!!! i am not a big fan of david cameron but i hope he is being honest when he says that he will cut benefits from people who dont need them, then people could relax…my partner works but he has a huge chunk cut out of his wages and the amount he pays out from tax is exactly the amount we get in tax credits anyway so we are only getting what we pay out anyway.

Yes stop slating single mums!!!! we do two peoples jobs..we look after our children and go to work..if cameron wants to make anyone suffer it should be the fathers who dont pay for the children then david wouldnt have to look after us….and we dont get as much support as we should have we are bringing up the future alone.I wouldnt want people feeling sorry for us because id rather be alone then have an awful marrige..if tax credits stop people will walk out of there jobs as how will they pay for childcare,rent bills etc!!! cameron is a bully and he wants to crush us..but people wanted to kill margaret thatcher back in the day.. well people have more bottle nowadays..you cant get away with hurting families..and if the nhs goes wow!!!

I am so upset that the conservative won in the first place,this was one time in my 32years that I voted ,and yes I voted Labour.DC is a con a rich con artist and Gordon Brown was thrown into bullshit ! at least he was thinking about the poor ! The Toris’ don’t have any real say their just Dc lap dog.Cutting taxcredit will damage many poor families especially single mothers .I am amazed , shocked and horrified that DC true colours are shining through and it aint even a year in power.How do we vote them out,we should protest ,this is our country ! If we are not happy we should do something about,in a respectable manner ! Heaven Help Us,When I heard the conservative won I was on the verge of having a break-down ,yes that how much it had affected me.God Have Mercy On Us who are Trying.I leave all to God who will see us through.We have to all stay strong !

It really puzzles me where many politicians minds are & those that supposedly voted conservatives in, you see I’d like to believe this world has moved on I know my generation -30s don’t want a world of yes sir no sir all that I can get sir no more I hope we want a world & better country, it’s not hard & I see this in the older generation much too though with all this intentional confusion an nit picking they get away with moving our thoughts into excepting their status quo. Come on people have a heart I feel for those in arkward lifes who find out your not protected unless your a child or have to have children to get some needed things an then find life much harder, we all know money can protect you to an extent though personally I find living in a world where charity is needed is demeaning an well said by many who know you can’t predict the future unless your making the future happen! ?

Why do people say they pay taxes for other people? Who pays your taxes an your families taxes, if there’s ever a time when everyones at work it will be nice to walk the streets an get served through no queues in the shops not having to see benefits wasted on food an clothing or giant screen t.v.s which all ends up being recycled at the loss to everyone but those who generate the income.
What a wonderfull world we live in shame about the life we live in it!

I hate all these people going on about single moms bein lazy and just sitting at home on benefits… NEWSFLASH… being a mom is a 24/7 job in itself. My partner worked for 7 years prior to having our two kids payed her taxes, no problem. now i think she deserves all that tax money back via child tax credits doing the job she does. And all these rich bastards can slate the working class as much as they like going on about how we live of their money, but put it this way… what would they do if they suddenly lost there £50k a yeaar job… they wouldnt have a bloody clue on budgeting their dough.

Some of the contributors here seem to have a strange view of what constitutes being a member of the middle class. It’s as if all so-called high earners have been gifted their ‘over paid’ jobs as a result of fortuitous parentage.

What they fail to realize is that a majority of those on salaries over £35k probably sat in class rooms in comprehensive schools just like the ones they attended. They may have even sat next to some of the contributors. The difference is, they paid attention to the teacher, worked hard and got a college/uni education. In fact, they’re still working hard and still adding to their education through work related courses. Good jobs don’t fall accidentally into people’s laps. People don’t keep good jobs by sitting on their laurels. We have to keep learning, keep pushing ourselves if we want to succeed.

The vast majority of children in this country have the opportunity to learn the skills they need to have a successful, well paid career through a free (tax payer funded) school education. Don’t begrudge the ones that go on to make something of their life. They’ve worked hard and deserve it. Ask yourselves an honest question: did you grasp all the opportunities given to you with both hands, or did you waste them and wish you had those chances again?

i think if they axe the tax credits and child benefit now it will upset alot of people and make alot of parents very depressed with life over feeding there children…. i think the goverment mps should come and live on benefit and see how they survive, i think its hard trying to find jobs these days considering they let too many foergin people in this country im not being racist but it brings down the jobs here in england i want the best for my family of 9.. but the goverment think of there selfs. too busy wiping there own ass with there gold toilet paper which they get too much bloody money for,…. there had my say wish i could say it to david cameron

So he should! When the agency laid me off (yes those pr**ks who made thousands from me filling a form out) I was instantly kicked out of my flat. If I had a kid then I’m a real person, and instead of letting me rot away in a f**king tent for months on end, I would have had a council house, benefits galore, and a real place in society.
You’ve just created conditiions where its more profitable to have a kid than it is to work. Waddling teenagers with two kids get far more than my 50 hour week’s wages. SCUM!! I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!

in response to “Cat”’s post. Not all families can afford to send our kids off to university. I studied for 3 years and i’m still in debt from it now and still looking for work after being layed off

both my wife and myself work, i work full time and my wife part time we have a combined annual income of £26000.00 we have 4 kids at home and 2 under 5 years old we carnt afford a childminder so my mother in law watches the kids when we are both at work, with mortgage payments, food and everything else thats needed we live on £150.00 a week, if the government stopped my benefits i couldnt afford to work

Lets be real here, lots of countries in the world have to work so hard, they dont rely on the state for funds, Britain has become an unemployed state bse of the benefits! We all have to work to pay our way, stop whinging and get on with it, you got to work to support yourselves and family like all other nations, stop relying on the state, get yourselves into college and look for a job!

This debate is quite disgusting.
Everyone has the chance to build themselves a life without having to depend on government handouts.

Close family friends of mine were evicted from Uganda in the 70’s with being allowed to bring only £50 person with them.
They came to England, were not given any sort of handouts yet they worked day and night with whatever job they could get whilst at the same time raising 3 children who are now respectively a doctor and 2 lawyers. If they who started if with nothing and received no help could do that I do not understand how people in this country can sit there and complain that they’re not receiving enough help when they’re themselves not even willing to work.

Why on earth should tax payers have to help you bring up your children, it is not my job to pay for someone elses child yet my taxes go towards that and I never complain, however when people sit there and say that they cannot work because they have a child that I find revolting.

In my opinion and I know a lot of people wont agree but if you are really not capable of both holding up a job and bringing up a child then you should not have children because how will you be able to successfully raise them and I can say that coming from a family where my mum brought up 4 children on her own whilst working full time.

People need to stop being so selfish and think about the rest of the country not just themselves.

I can’t believe how mean Gotdon Brown was in raising the basic rate of tax from 10% to 20% for those earning below 10k per annum. Never voted Con or Lib Dem in my puff who knows what they will be like but at least they might change this and stop punishing peolpe trying to work .Tax Credit was an ok idea but it smacked of centralisation and control and in reality props up the UK property balloon disease because anyone who does not fit the labour party’s usual victim mold ends up paying 99% of their income on housing and essentials – guess who stopped building council houses – leaving people at the mercy of the market? THe benefits system was crap because people were encouraged not to work.
Furthermore, centuries on from the Norman Invasion -1066 etc, and after several socialist? governments, the patterns of property ownership in the UK stinks as much as ever – one author quotes 20% of land owned by same families as in 1066.
Hope some more radical politics emerges from the ashes.

I think people have been fooled by DC as he has halved his original manifesto and agrees with his sidekick Nic that although £24,000 is only the average income. £24,000 is a middle income when this amount is joint. Working couples earning this amount of money especially in the public or private sector in the south is not a large income to put a roof over the families head worked for over a long period. This of course does not affect those not working. I thought they were supposed to be listing to peoples opinions this was to means test child benefit. Instead they think Grandparents will take over from the workers (they already cover as much of their share and may also be working. Nic and Dave its alright for you to change your plans to do the school run, but you are putting all the women out of work, thinking they can all stay at home, while your elitist rich families make their choice. How can you be so insulting and patronising to the people you said you were thinking of. Tax deductions later will only pay for the increase in national insurance. They will lose their homes and be on the dole by then. Of course none of this harms the mums that want to stay at home and produce as many children as they feel like until they are past eighteen and they will be to old to take a job. Yvette Cooper you need to get back out there and fight for the working people you know what you are talking about.

Im amazed at this i earn 12,ooo a year and just supported my son through university, with no tax creditsI am a single mum

Thanks the Budget – I’ll probably lose my house – you know the roof over my children’s head. I have worked since leaving school and since useless lump of ex-husband left me with 2 children have relied on child tax credits to enable me to continue to work and provide for my children. This will now probably be impossible and for first time dont think it will honestly pay me to work. I want to work and set children good values, especially as a single parent this is all the more important (ex isnt going to do it). So thanks a lot Tories – me and kids are well and truly F******!!!!!

tax credits, complete joke! what is the point of people in this country getting a good education and earning a good living when it would seem that if you and your partner have rubbish jobs the tax credits / benefits system will compensate for you not doing well at school and top your measly 20k a year salary up to a mere 50k, this outdoing the class geek who went on to be a IT manager and earnt a decent living!!!! how on earth can this be right! people who do the right thing get nothing! people who go through life not achieveing anything are handed it on a plate!
grrrrrrrrrr

EDITOR REPLY: You’d be less angry if you understood the reality of the Tax Credit system. Your comment completely misrepresents how the system works and, of course, how much money is available.

GREAT my childcare costs are 13500 a year because daughter is preschool and have a son, not my fault country is so dam expensive! I was so keen to go back to work cant now, partner earns 32,000, which is taxed by 8000 yearly so actually left with 24000! if I get a job for 12000 taxed 3000, so total yearly will be £33000, after childcare costs be left with 19500 between us thats less then 10000 each impossible in this day an age, they con you lot who are all for it cos your only thinking gross income not net, I’m not working a full year for that, childminder will be alright we wont be! thanks DC for keeping under represented women at home, SEXIST! so long as your wife’s alright, right?

Oh and Scott Richardson, grow up! my partner has a degree and good job, works bloody hard! and I’m graduating with a 2.1 in September, so no it’s not all handed on a plate you infantile! It’s bloody hard, save your comments for those who are sitting at home all day not working or wanting too and claiming god knows what! All me and my partner want is a little help towards childcare costs because they are crippling and unavoidable, if you had kids you’d understand!

I agree with Scott’s comment. Again those on higher incomes get punished for trying to achieve something in life. Like the comment from the baker more than doubling his wage with benefits and choosing for his wife to stay at home, many people in this country know how to play the system and drain every last bit they are so called “entitled to”. What happened to the married person’s tax allowance? It became the tax credit, yet now it seems the more you put in the less you get back. We can’t even get an NHS dentist and so pay for everyone else and then pay again to go private. Im sick of seeing so called single mums turning up at the school gate in their boyfriends brand new cars whilst living in paid for housing and their kids having free dinners. Note that these are the parents with the nicest prams, buggies and designer clothes and latest mobiles. I am a housewife my husband goes to work to provide for his family and yet if I need a prescription I have to pay, where is the justice in any of it. We want to emigrate!

Ok really lets put this to bed now, to all those who have passed comment on having worked hard at school and acheived, thus enabling them to secure jobs which pay a handsome sum, affording all of what they need, without the support of the tax credit system, well done. However the vast majority of us mere mortals are not quite so fortunate, and it needs to be remembered that their failure to acheive this level may not actually be the individuals fault, many people out there struggle in school academically, for various reasons, and not necessarily out of their own making…think learning difficulties, moreover, the current working generation in their prime, schooled under a conservative government, who for the main were only interested in accelerating the brightest,leaving the rest behind. So please for god’s sake leave the lower earners alone, because one day you may need a nurse to patch you back together.

I agree with Miss Wayne, and commend all those single mothers out there, who need tax credits to help them get by, why are people on here dogging single working mothers and families with kids? Least their working, you dont get tax credits if your not! Save these comments for the abled bodied man or woman down the road, with no kids, on the dole for over 5 years, YES you will find them in every street, because there has been no mention of these people, who are the one’s who should be giving the money back and really have no geniune reason for claiming free money, at least the majority of people who have commented on here, are contributing to society..leave single working mothers, working families with kids and the sick out of it! chase down lazy dole dossing scrubs and get the money from them, if they are hungry they will bloody work!

i am a single mom the only money i get is of benefits and i haf just had 2 take me 14 yr old sister in 2 my care because our dad past away this year and our mom is died six years ago how the hell am i ment 2 manage wif my 2 young children and my sister wen the money will be stopped wen its not that long ago there wasnt enough jobs 4 people , people were bein layed of thats y theres so many on benefits , there will be thousands of homeless families , if u stop the money hope u will be happy wif all the danger u will be puttin people in

am a labour support through out bt its funny how all people are whinging bt the question is did u vote 4 labour??if u did then y david camron is in power people are just good at winging bt the day of the election i saw people saying they cant be botherd 2 vote basically they didnt care bt look now winging is not going to help anything.just have 2 live with it cz u can waste your time bt still we are stuck with david camron weather we like it o not.so stop wasting ur tym winging.

i think withdrawing all these benefits and services ,will have the affect of lower paid people dying earlier thereby saving even more money in reduced pension payments…. very uncertain future

single parents are created through circumstance, and yes i agree that people should work (i dont, i am a lazy idle single parent scrounger creaming in benefits for 5 kids). Scumm you may think… but no i probably work harder than most as i am also parent and carer to a serverly disabled child so I can’t work. What anoys me is why people don’t go after the unemployed as a whole. Why is a single mun worse than a fit 20 year old jsa claimant or a 2 parent family on the dole. Why should married mum get tax credits to stay at home for her children? i say if we are all gonna loose benefits then the stay at home married mothers should loose their pocket money too, after all what are they doing for society??? nothing more than single mum !!!!!!!!!!!!!1

You know why David Cameron has slashed child tax credits? so he can give it all to his wife hee hee! The government are the biggest scroungers out there, over paid thiefs who can not justify their 60,000 plus starting salaries!

Despite the fact the David is the ”priminister”, he cant really cut child tax, beacuse I assume that the liberals and the concervatives have alternative policies, so therefore it will be difficult to cut it!!! HES JUST SAYIGN THAT SO EVERYONE CAN WORK!!

I am a law student at UCL, and my mother is a chemist and my dad is a barrister and they both work. Even though I think that those who cant work,should not work. No one can force them to. Afterall and in the end of the day we all live in a ”democratic” country!!

Hummm… Bit of a trend on the comments here isn’t there?

Single moms with piles of kids, some working, most not.

So let me get this right… you get with a fella, have children – he then leaves for whatever reason and has to legally pay maintanance for the child until they are 18 – and the rest of the bill comes from other people’s tax contributions?

I work my ass off full time as does my partner. We support 2 children and get nothing back in tax credits or any other kind of credit.

We have a combined income of more than £50k because we worked hard for it, and yet between us we still pay in the region of £1,300 each month in income tax & NI
, some of which pays for your irresponsible lives.

Scrap the credits I say. You already have enought credit from child maintanance, child allowance and the reduction of income tax that those of you who bother to work, pay. (unless of course you work hard and earn decent cash, in which case – well done)….

Why our government is obsessed with holding up so called sink-hole estates and people who don’t and will never contribute to society I will never know.

I have read today in the paper that they are scrapping the tax credits. What the f£ck are we meant to do. I get no child maintenance from my childs fathers, but I work full time and have a mortgage and bills to pay, without my tax credits, I would be f£cked! Who the hell voted for this d1ckhead David Cameron!

Well I believe that the tax credits shouldn’t be stopped, it absurd that this would even be thought about now. Thousands of people would be out of pocket and their would be riots!!!

I am a single mum through no fault of my own I hate living off of benefits.We eat value or special offer food,I buy reduced meat and freeze it (if ever you wanna loose weight go on the benefit diet!) and we shop in charity shops (I have become a dab hand with a sewing needle!) a day out for my child and myself is a day to our local park making dasiy chains or drawing. Alot of people think the benefit life is easy but its not is degrading! I am currently studying to become a teaching assistant I want to go back to work but at the same time I want a career not just a job (pls no offence towards anyone) if I am to earn a decent wage I would have to work all the hours god sends and not see my daughter who would prob end up roaming the streets bored and getting caught up in god knows what!! I agree with comments from people who are sick and tired of paying tax for some mums to go and sit down all day (i pod touch comment made me shudder) I know of a woman whos children attend my childs school, she has 7, yes you read it right 7 children she is a ’single’ mum but yet pops one more baby out more or less every summer hols she turns up at school brand new pushchair, 20 benson and hedges cigs, her older kids look dragged up and everyone is cooing over the new baby!!! That makes me sick. Help those who try to help themselfs or need that extra push dont take away from these parents and cause a massive struggle. I feel very very sorry for our childrens future.

p.s I think the whole voting thing was a fix anyway. Where I live some people were told they could not vote after they had qued for the best part of 2 hours!!!!

hi

i just got hit yesterday … i am a single parent and a hard working one at that. my last year earnings were 100 over 24k and they have cut my tax credits… i have no idea what i am going to do after i pay all the bills i have nothing to live on. my daughter is a teenager and how the hell am i suppose to support her to go to University now.

We should protest!! why is it that hard working people are the ones who get hit, they would save a fortune if they pulled the money back that is put towards immigration and benefits given to non nationals. ALso all those drug addicts under the umbrella of mental health who rake in income support and DLA, i now for a fact they receive approx 900 a month and get there rent and council tax for free.

Its a scandal that i have paid my taxes for years and yet the one who is punished. Makes you think that it may be worth while not working…

You cant believe how upsetting it is.. Gordon Brown might have looked miserable but the labour government i believe always had our best interests at heart.

i dont think it helps society in any way, shape or form …. It will only create the rich and poor divide ….

Firstly, the people who are commenting on here and who aren’t spell checking or typing correctly, you aren’t making a good argument for yourselves. It just makes you look stupid – please take more care.

Secondly, the majority of the cuts are to people on higher incomes.

Thirdly, why should the people who take away you rubbish and keep the electricity flowing in your house have to pay tax so you can keep your children. Why did you have children if you can’t look after them?
The conservatives have to make cuts somewhere to repair what GB did to this country, you have to make sacrifices to repair the damage.

Lastly, what does it matter if David Cameron is rich? He worked for it. If you want money, you work for it

“T”, the next time you want to pass comment on spelling and grammar, please ensure that you yourself, are beyond reproach, I refer to “Take away you rubbish!” I believe you meant to say “Your.” Sorry, but if you are going to attempt to be elitist, make sure you are capable of achieving it first, nobody is infallible, and the odd typo will occur from time to time, in addition not everybody has the same level of educational achievement for whatever reason, in most cases through no fault of their own, which leads on to point two, its all very well to say “If you want money you need to work for it, with the best will in the world, not everybody can earn David Cameron’s pay packet for two very obvious reasons… 1) not everybody has the level of education required to argue an eloquent enough point, although most of his has been acquired through being in with the Toff’s, 2) Who is going to take away your rubbish, keep the electricity flowing through your house, if those very people who you rely upon to fulfill these area’s of your life, were able to achieve a salary akin to the Pm’s, by doing something which was far more self centered? Basically diversity of skill throughout the population is essential for a functioning society, so yes there are people who have to earn less for various reasons, but does that mean those who earn more should just be allowed to turn their backs, become increasingly richer, without offsetting a little of their earnings, to enrich the lives of the very people, they rely upon to supply some of their most essential services ? No, When I read a story such as Ruth’s above, it is diabolical that a person who has made every effort of self support, should then be left out in the cold, but then I equally agree, that nor should the single parent with very young children not receive help in the early most formative years, regardless of whether they are working or not, it is imperative that we look after our future, for it is all we have to look forward to. The disbandment/cutback of tax credits, must not continue. God help us if the bigoted fool above is allowed to preside for much longer, I fear we will all be doomed. P.s “T” apologies for any errors or typo’s incurred within this body of text grammatical, or otherwise. Believe it or not just because you receive tax credits, it doesn’t mean that you are unable to form an articulate valid argument, regardless of any spag (spelling , punctuation, and grammar) mistakes. It just means you have to work a little harder to be heard.