David,
You made me stop and think there and recall all those years before! You’re right, the Conservatives did abolish the lone parents tax allowance but replaced it with Family Credit which Labour then abolished and replaced with Working Tax Credits but there was a full year gap in between of no help to work at all which was down to Labour, the woman was very sympathetic when she was telling me!! I was just so angry at the suggestion that I would be better off giving up my self-respect to let the Government look after me.
I just remember having a really tough year of working long hours and paying a fortune in childcare. My actual point there anyway apart from having a dig at Labour was the fact that single parents shouldn’t be able to just live off the state and have loads of kids, I didn’t earn a lot and didn’t have the luxury of even sporadic maintenance!
“Your recent comments are very “Deep Blue” if you know what I mean” – I know! Scaring myself really!! Still going to go with UKIP though! If Margaret Thatcher was leader of the Conservatives I would vote for her, she made tough decisions, took responsibility for them and the fears she had for the country have come to pass.
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