I just have to get this off my chest before I go mad
Since around the last election politicians seem obsessed with targetting the needs and wants of "Hard Working Families". Examining this curious statement for a minute how exactly do you measure whether a "Family" is "Hard Working". Do both members have to be in employment? What if one of them works really "Hard" but the other bums around in a Easy Life career and has 10 fag breaks a day? Anyway, this conundrum put aside lets go for some statistics -
First, definition of a Family (Oxford English)
"A group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit"
Now some actual numbers (Last UK Census)
Married Families With Dependent Children - 4.7m
Cohabiting Couple Family with Dependent Children - 1.2m
Lone Parent Family with Dependent Children - 1.9m
Some simple maths yields a Total number of voters part of "Hard working families" being roughy - 13.7m
In the last general election 45 Million people were elligable to vote.
So my question to Mr Cameron, Mr Milliband and all you other f&*kwits who KEEP BANGING ON ABOUT THEIR POLICIES TO HELP HARD WORKING F&*KING FAMILES is
What are you going to do for the other 31.3 Million (or 69.6%) of us who ARE NOT part of a hard F*^king "working family" which by the way is a completely made up piece of political wank demographic that is impossible to define anyway?
Maybe I should buck my ideas up as a moderaitely hard working cohabiting person with no dependent children to court the attention of the above mentioned political muppets!
Since around the last election politicians seem obsessed with targetting the needs and wants of "Hard Working Families". Examining this curious statement for a minute how exactly do you measure whether a "Family" is "Hard Working". Do both members have to be in employment? What if one of them works really "Hard" but the other bums around in a Easy Life career and has 10 fag breaks a day? Anyway, this conundrum put aside lets go for some statistics -
First, definition of a Family (Oxford English)
"A group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit"
Now some actual numbers (Last UK Census)
Married Families With Dependent Children - 4.7m
Cohabiting Couple Family with Dependent Children - 1.2m
Lone Parent Family with Dependent Children - 1.9m
Some simple maths yields a Total number of voters part of "Hard working families" being roughy - 13.7m
In the last general election 45 Million people were elligable to vote.
So my question to Mr Cameron, Mr Milliband and all you other f&*kwits who KEEP BANGING ON ABOUT THEIR POLICIES TO HELP HARD WORKING F&*KING FAMILES is
What are you going to do for the other 31.3 Million (or 69.6%) of us who ARE NOT part of a hard F*^king "working family" which by the way is a completely made up piece of political wank demographic that is impossible to define anyway?
Maybe I should buck my ideas up as a moderaitely hard working cohabiting person with no dependent children to court the attention of the above mentioned political muppets!
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