to vote Tory for £2000?

[Solopower1]

The government is going to give you lucky working parents £2000 for each child for childcare while you go out and earn a living - if you vote for them.

Will you?

'The support package – one of the coalition's central election offers to middle-class working parents – will be available, when launched, for anyone with children up to the age of 12 instead of the previous cut-off age of five.

The £2,000 maximum is to cover 20% of the costs of childcare up to an annual maximum of £10,000 a year. No extra support is available for people with more expensive provision.'

www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/18/pm-pitches-families-childcare-cash

[Dawndonnaagain]

And, judging by the results of the last election, when some of you get in the ballot box is a very different story
I don't think so, there would be no coalition without the Lib Dem vote. Good grief, you really are a tory aren't you, making it up as you go along.

[pointythings]

Yes, Retropear - the way the CB was handled was and still is appalling. It should always have been done on household income with the threshold set much higher, and it is bollocks to say that would have been too difficult.

And yy re Gove, Lottie.

[JamNan]

Bugger I just lost my long post!

OP, I wouldn't vote for that shower of shit and that Cunt-Clegg if you paid me a million pounds. It's going to take years to recover from the damage they have done to so many of the people of this country.

[hunreeeal]

No. It would be a false economy because they're taking away from so many other areas... education, transport, NHS etc. etc.

[ilovesooty]

I can't seriously imagine anyone really believes that unemployment is falling whatever the figures say.

[ConferencePear]

Is it too cynical of me to think that they are only doing it to increase the pool of cheap labour i.e. women ?

[MrsSparkles]

Depends on my local candidate who I vote for, so I wouldn't decide on one policy alone, but the cost of childcare is too high and I'm glad they're doing something about it.

I'm self employed, run a company employing 60 people and get no tax relief on my childcare whatsoever, it's beyond infuriating. Luckily we can afford it (just).

[Owllady]

An adult with severe learning disabilities generally doesn't partake in education post 19, unless appropriate. The cost of them living with their parents, with support at home is a lot less than driving a family into the ground with exhaustion and despair so they have little choice but to out their relatives into fully maintained residential care. But hey, we are a minority so nobody cares anyway.

The conservative party. Shitting on the vulnerable and their hard working families from a great height

[LineRunner]

Clegg and the Lib Dems are trying to take ownership of this policy - which is fair enough - and thus will a million 'Focus' leaflets be launched.

I just don't think it will cancel out many voters' scepticism about the Lib Dems "boy's network". They really do just look like the Tories now - an absence of women in decent influential positions, sniffs of expedient cover-ups of complaints against MPs and councillors....

[Dawndonnaagain]

The conservative party. Shitting on the vulnerable and their hard working families from a great height
Couldn't agree with you more!

[Nennypops]

Absolutely not. After the way they have repeatedly shafted the most vulnerable people and have made it entirely clear that they fully intend carrying on doing so, I simply could not live with my conscience if I voted Conservative.

[hunreeeal]

Shitting on the vulnerable and their hard working families from a great height

And vulnerable people who can't work or who don't have any family.

[Katnisscupcake]

I won't vote full stop.

I won't vote for Tories because they're crap but anyone else is even worse.

Labour got us into this mess and no-one who attempts to get us out of it is going to be popular because of what they have to do to fix it. If Labour gets back in, our kids futures are going to be even worse than they are looking now - and already it's pretty bleak!!

[LividofLondon]

No way would I ever vote Tory, even for tactical reasons. I only vote for the party I want in, not to keep another party out, and I'll spoil my ballot paper if I don't like any of them rather than not turning up on ballot day. The only party I support are the Greens, and I vote for them even if they don't have a chance of power because they are the only party whose policies I agree with.

[mrsjay]

i would rather scoop my eyes out with a spoon

[LegoCaltrops]

Not a chance. They are a load of deceitful, self-serving, arrogant, fraudsters. Lining their own pockets, no doubt they all have enormous pension pots lined up so they will be able to retire at a reasonable age, and all the while they are raising the retirement age in the future, a lot of the current young generation may not live to retirement age. Those in power probably have never gone hungry in their lives, but they see fit to cut benefits, funding for food banks, CAB and other free services. Previous Tory government allowed privatisation of utilities etc, which has led to skyrocketing of utility costs etc. So many threads on MN last autumn asking for tips on how to keep the house warm without turning the heating on all winter, so sad. Old & vulnerable people having to choose between heating & eating, every winter.

I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

[UriGeller]

You can put any words you like in the mouths of the "silent majority" whineaholic.

[fallon8]

Does anyone fancy giving me a tax break for my cat and dog? Thought not..why should I pay for other peoples kids....don't bother giving me "they are the carers of the future". Routine..anyway,I live in Scotland...land of " great country,don't ask me to live there" so, if wee Eck and wee Nichola get their way,it hopefully won't apply to me..

[usuallyright]

the Tories are the lesser of two evils.
Milliband and co far more dangerous than Cameron and co. If they do get in, they'll do what Labour always do when voted in... spend spend spend. It's so easy and so voter friendly to be a reckless spendthrift.
And push us further in the red.

[ilovesooty]

Not only would I note vote for them, I hope if Hell exists there's a special place reserved there for Cameron, IDS and Gove. Not to mention Clegg whose betrayal and self serving lies are beneath contempt.

[rallytog1]

Mrssparkles well presumably if it's your company, you could make yourself an employee of your company and join the company up to vouchers scheme? Wouldn't be difficult.

[hunreeeal]

I won't vote for Tories because they're crap but anyone else is even worse.

Even UKIP? Would you vote to keep them out?

[Dawndonnaagain]

Labour got us into this mess

No they didn't. Hard though it is for any British person to believe, we do not have a huge impact on the world economy. It was a world wide recession, not a peculiarly british one.

[ilovesooty]

And as for Labour are ruled by the unions... you have to be pretty dense to buy into that these days. Unions have been toothless for years and most individuals are too selfish even to give up one day to industrial action these days. Thatcher made sure of that.