Yay! Looks like Child Benefits are next on Dave's hitlist...

[cupcakesandbunting]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11009535

Speculation, my bum. We all know what's coming, Dave.

Middle-class spongers - wake up and smell the coffee!!

This has been a long time in coming.

Hopefully people will now realise they have to pay their own way - CB can and should help those in need of it..."need" not being defined as wanting to shop at M&S Food, Waitrose or even those Tesco Finest thingummies...

another one here on about 40K who relies on cb.

With rental of £1300 per month I also qualify for minimal housing benefit.

Also living in south east.

Barmyarmy

£3000 for a year at prep school? What is it called, Borstal?

I shop at Lidl and Poundland

BA not you again. You sound like my ex BIL

Oh do fuck off, BarmyArmy. £840 of OUR money goes towards the welfare state so watch who you're calling a sponger.

tethersend - who the f*ck has 6 children without ensuring that they are able to provide for them, come rain or shine?

Scum, that's whom.

I briefly went out with a guy who had views like Barmy.

Briefly.

Hopefully this ridiculous benefit will be abolished once and for all...as if it's any business of Govt as to whether we want to have children or not.

This thread is going to run and run. I relish the discussion and debate - let's try and avoid the abuse, okay?

omg expat - you poor thing

pmsl @ "lets try and avoid the abuse" when he's just labelled anyone who had 6 children and then for one reason or another finds themselves reliant on state support after having had them as "scum"

Well, pfffft. Don't call people spongers when you know little to nothing of their circumstances.

Shopping in Waitrose and M&S? I fucking wish.

BarmyArmy again [rolls eyes]

Can we stop calling people scum.

I know, tocc. I used to drink a lot :o.

BarmyArmy is a dick. Sorry but she/he/whatever is. In the last few days alone it is;

-claimed that gollywogs are inoffensive little things.

-said people on a wage are MC spongers yet those on benefits are scum

-said that children must have the same last name as both parents or be damned to eternal hellfire.

I call troll.

Barmy, hang on, on previous threads you've attacked the poor for claiming benefits, now you are attacking the middle class saying benefits should be for those in need.

Do you hate both the poor and the middle classes? Are you the revolutionary wing of the nouveau riche or something?

She's a revolutionary wing of totally fucking loony.

Middle class spongers ??? Middle class is not people earning £45k these days, £45k barely touches the bloody sides when you have 2 kids nevermind any more.

Later on, whilst drunk, I googled him and found out he was a Kilroy-Silk supporter, tocc. :o

Agreed, mamatomany.

We are having no more children because we can't afford it. Simple as that.

A £45k wage puts you in something like the top 10% of earners. (A household income of £45k if you have two people working full time is a bit lower than average, though.)

the same last name of both parents - oh my poor children - people keep asking me if I'm going to keep my "married" name once my divorce goes through - hell yes - I hated my "maiden" surname with a passion (although my married one is unpronounceable at least it's interesting ).

haha expat -