"The Chancellor must listen to the tearful working mother on last night’s Question Time – not just for her sake, but for his
The woman in the Question Time audience was close to tears. She’d voted Tory in May because she believed David Cameron when he said there’d be no cuts to tax credits for low-paid workers like her.
Now she didn’t know how she was going to cope.
Recently I was telling a Government minister’s special adviser that the cuts to tax credits would be a disaster not only for low-paid workers, but for the Tories.
“Stop it,” she said, after I’d been banging on about it for some time. “You’re making me anxious.”
She should be anxious. And so should George Osborne.
Because if he doesn’t do a U-turn on this soon, he’ll never be prime minister. He’ll be as despised as he was that night in the Olympic Stadium, back in the summer of 2012. The cheers he deservedly won for raising the minimum wage will be forgotten.
The Chancellor will present his Autumn Statement on November 25. That gives him just under six weeks to find a way to water down his plans so that no low-paid worker ends up with an effective pay cut. "
Source: Do a U-turn on tax credits, George Osborne – or you’ll never be prime minister - Telegraph
Tories only won the election because of the grand deception - I'd say it should be overturned on the ground of fraud by politicians...
The woman in the Question Time audience was close to tears. She’d voted Tory in May because she believed David Cameron when he said there’d be no cuts to tax credits for low-paid workers like her.
Now she didn’t know how she was going to cope.
Recently I was telling a Government minister’s special adviser that the cuts to tax credits would be a disaster not only for low-paid workers, but for the Tories.
“Stop it,” she said, after I’d been banging on about it for some time. “You’re making me anxious.”
She should be anxious. And so should George Osborne.
Because if he doesn’t do a U-turn on this soon, he’ll never be prime minister. He’ll be as despised as he was that night in the Olympic Stadium, back in the summer of 2012. The cheers he deservedly won for raising the minimum wage will be forgotten.
The Chancellor will present his Autumn Statement on November 25. That gives him just under six weeks to find a way to water down his plans so that no low-paid worker ends up with an effective pay cut. "
Source: Do a U-turn on tax credits, George Osborne – or you’ll never be prime minister - Telegraph
Tories only won the election because of the grand deception - I'd say it should be overturned on the ground of fraud by politicians...
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