Gerry Mander wrote:
In theory, low wage earners will be better off *if* they satisfy the eligibility requirements for tax credits and bother to go through the hoops needed in order to claim them. If you're say, single and self-employed, I believe these hoops are kinda tricky.
I'm guessing that Gordon knows many won't bother claiming and has written off their vote in any case.
"Hello. I'm single and self-employed, although I'm looking into volunteering and/or doing a fairly low-wage job at a museum for a totally irregular number of hours per week as an aside. I've moved house six times in just over four years, but now I rent a room in a shared house, although I am not strictly speaking a tenant as my flatmates are technically the only bill-payers and I am merely signed in as their dependent, because that was easier than dicking around with a new contract. Oh, and one of them is pregnant, and was recently made redundant and is now sort of self-employed, but not really. The other works full-time at a low-wage job, but is also sort of self-employed and does a lot of work in his spare time for one of his boss' competitors. I only have enough to eat this month because a client gave me their credit card and PIN instead of a cheque. Taking a fifth of my income could literally destroy any chance all three of us have of starting a business and leave us totally fucking doomed to work shitty fucking shop jobs for fifty fucking years because any time any one of us tries to fucking improve our lot we get fucked up the arse by a bunch of parasitic cockscabs who are as morally bankrupt as we are financially. This 'tax all the poor people and then make them work even more to get their money back' is almost as good as NOT FUCKING TAKING THE MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU LYING, DESPICABLE CUNTS.
So anyway, can I have some of the money I earned back now, please? I know you've got funny-looking foreign people to bomb and everything, but I need to eat. Thanks!"
Still, on the plus side, we have the internet again.