so is "Call me David" finally showing his Thatcherite traits?

[Bobbisox]

On Sky News this morning, his Chancellor, George Osborne was said to have ducked and dived in a Q and A session regarding child benefit and winter fuel payments, it is thought that the latter will now only be paid to the 66+ pensioners and not 60 as it is now, the child benefits will be reduced for the 2/3/4 child or more, which tbh cant be a bad thing, this may or may not stop the young girls going on to mass produce often with a different father each time.
It appears the elderly and the young are always the soft targets, why not the fat cats and the MPs contribute to the austerity cuts we are about to have? and catch up with the Tax evaders who don't pay a penny in revenue here....because the old and young don't shout so it's an easy option?

[Bobbisox]

well how could or would they implement such measures?

[jackthehat]

Luckily, for me, that is something I don't have to consider in any great detail.........:o)

[Bobbisox]

no, me neither I guess
thanks for the input guys

[anotheoldgit]

/// Yes the smarmy lying 2 faced pr!ck is showing the true tory trait. ///

Surely the left can disagree with Tory/LibDem measures without the need for such expletives?

[McMouse]

AOG the expletives are their substitute for informed intelligent debate. The mob howling down anything that doesn't chime with their warped views.

[naomi24]

Sorry Steve, but coming from someone who didn't vote and clearly made no effort to elect his preferred government, that is truly pathetic. Two faced? Yes, indeed!

[TheRedDevils]

Cameron the milk kleptomaniac, Dave the dairy cutter? Journalists would have struggled to devise a sobriquet as damaging as Thatcher the milk snatcher for the current Conservative leader

[jomifl]

Being prudent didn't work for gordon, perhaps we need to stop spending.

[anotheoldgit]

We often hear of Margaret Thatcher being classed as 'the milk snatcher' when in fact as the Education Secretary at the time, she actually voted against the banning of school milk.

But why let the true facts get in the way of Leftism lies.

/// A lot of them call her "Thatcher the milk snatcher" because as schools minister, free school milk was stopped. What the idiots, and the uneducated fail to realise is that she voted AGAINST stopping free school milk for kids. This is well documented in Hansard the Commons daily record of proceedings.///

[Bobbisox]

I neither consider myself an idiot or indeed uneducated AOG and I doubt steve would either, a debate is good but lets keep the momentum going without the names huh?

[TheTruthHere]

Have a read
http://www.margaretth...r.org/document/102119

[anotheoldgit]

Bobbiesox and Steve.5

Before you accuse me personally of name calling, perhaps you would care to notice that the passage which included the words 'idiot' and 'uneducated' was enclosed in diagonal slashes.

Since one is no longer able to type in italics, it is now the method that I use to point out that these are not my words, but words copied and pasted from other sources.

If the information this person gave is incorrect then I apologise.

[anotheoldgit]

From Wikipedia: .Margaret Thatcher Education Secretary 1970-1974

/// imposed public expenditure cuts on the state education system, resulting in, against her private protests, the abolition of free milk for school-children aged seven to eleven.[39] She believed that few children would suffer if schools were charged for milk, however she agreed to give younger children a third of a pint, daily, for nutritional purposes.[39] This provoked a storm of protest from the Labour party and the press,[40] and led to the unflattering moniker "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher".[39] ///

Note 'against her private protests' the abolition of free milk for school-children aged seven to eleven.

[mike11111]

The age requirement for the winter fuel allowance, along with the bus pass and free prescriptions, is gradually being introduced until the state pension age for women reaches 65. Basically, as from May this year, for every month you are under 60 you have to wait another month to be eligible. This was introduced by the last government and does not affect people who were 60 at the time.

[karenmac60]

What I don't understand is why over 60's automatically get winter fuel allowance and free bus passes (possibly state pension too, I'm not sure about that one) even when they are still working. Surely these things are in place to help those who have retired and no longer have a wage coming in - why should they be getting them on top of their wages?

[naomi24]

Steve, //Anybody who goes after the weakest in our society deserves more than a few expletives, especially a non elected government.

How can someone like Bobbisox (sorry Bobbi - no offence intended - just an example) possibly be the weakest in our society? She freely admits she doesn't need the benefits she's given, so exactly what are you saying and exactly what do you want Steve? For the serially idle to be free to spend their lives doing exactly as they want to do whilst the rest of us work to support them?

And as for an unelected government, if the whole electorate had behaved as you did, they certainly would have been unelected.