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Originally Posted by Derek
The rich? You can call them Tony and Gordon.
The bailouts aren't the only reason the country is broke, a welfare system that penalises work, a ridiculously complex tax system with more holes than a colander that's been hit by a shotgun blast, an intrusive nanny state that sucks up huge amounts of cash and military procurements that are basically money pits are other reasons.
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The reason that the welfare system penalises work, is that wages have not increase by much thanks to the government’s crackdown on union power and the fact there has been a lot of tax evasion!
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Originally Posted by Matt D
Well, student fees certainly went up due to Tony and Gordon too, given that it was New Labour which introduced Tuition Fees in the first place (and at the same time scrapped the Grant, and lowered the salary threshold for repaying Student Loans), and New Labour which then later introduced Top-up Fees too (despite a previous Manifesto commitment not to do so  ). |
It is time we scraped Tuition and Top-Up fees and brought back grants, along with a massive investment in higher and further education!!!
