Benefits

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We certainly do live in a very mixed up economy, where the workers are made to work, and the scroungers are able to scrounge, but I suppose that’s just the way it is.
If anything from being the worker you can learn the value of a one pence piece and hopefully be all the wiser for it.

Benefits

When is a scrounger not a scrounger? Answer: when his state benefits are helping to keep him in a nice house with a £400,000 mortgage. I have been trying to square the Government’s tough new proposals on welfare reform, which will involve slashing housing benefit and forcing single mothers of one- year-old children out to work, with its announcement last week of a mortgage rescue plan to allow homebuyers to take a two-year holiday on their mortgage repayments if they suffer a loss of income.
But I am afraid I am not doing very well. Whichever way I look at it, it appears to me that a different standard is being applied to the middle classes than it is to the poor. Worse, I have a horrible feeling that this might be caused by a desire to seek middle-class votes.