the thought of a Tory government actually happening bloody depresses me

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God help those of us on the breadline, we've had it now

I think 5 1/2 million Scots are a tad miffed too.

I am a Scot

I'm worried too, we're not on the breadline yet but CTC makes up a large chunk of our income, I'm now actively seeking work.

What on earth are you going on about? And the evidence to say that people who live on the breadline is where exactly??

the tories look after those with money, we live on less than £20k a year and are the working poor

I don't need "evidence", I remember the last tory government and how they helped the poorer off members of society, ie. they did nothing for them.

I'm not worried for next week, month or year, I'm ver concerned for 2 years time perhaps when the CTC & CB levels have been frozen and inflation has risen etc. In the short term I think it will be okay but over time I think it will be like going back to Thatcher's time tbh.

You're talking bollocks though (sorry, PMT). The last tory government introduced the tax credits system, it was called something else then though (family credit I think). They are not stopping the tax credits system, too many people rely on them. They are reducing/cutting them for people that earn over 50K.

If you actually looked at their web site you could see this for yourself.

swans I get a bit miffed that scottish MPs, voted for by scots, get to decide things for england that don't affect their own constituents. (west lothian question is a bit of a bug bear of mine)

I think that too cagirl I remember Maggie.

Belle it doesn't matter what they say NOW it is what they change in the future are few years down the line. This is the part that sold of huge amounts of social housing with the promise of giving the funds to local councils to build new but they didn't and the lack of affordable rental accommodation is a huge problem in our economy.

No, it was Maggie Thatcher's government that did this, not David Cameron. You are dragging up things that happened 20 years ago.

Working Families Tax Credit was introduced by Labour.

patience - I get a bit miffed that english MPs, voted for by the english, get to decide things for Scotland that don't affect their own constituents.

Scotland is virtually tory-free. I'd be so pissed off if I were Scottish at having a tory government.

But we are paying for the affects of it now!!!! Around here a private rental of a 2 bed house is £900 so anyone living on full hb benefit costs the state over £10k a year just to give them a home because there is so little social housing.

I just don't like capitalism, I never will. Labour have made mistakes every party will. We will always have a cyclical ecomony too.

No, it used to be called Family Credit, it was introduced by the conservatives.

David Cameron isn't Maggie Thatcher!!

no not yet, there is time though, I give him 2.5 years

It will all be fine! We'll chat in 2.5 years and I'll say 'I told you so'.

Hope so!

Have faith! It'll hurt at first, the economy is in a real mess from the last x years of overspending so cuts will be made, someone had to do it.

(hands CarGirl a whiskey) I'll be alright.

I'm scottish and I'm delighted at the thought of the tories getting in!

Hope I can get a job though otherwise we could be seriously shafted if the interest rates go up too much

i'll be pleased to stop having to read scaremongering about Tax credits.

interestingly enough labour were planning to cut the defecit by 18bn, the Conservatives are being marginally more ambitious at 2 bn.

they may be helped by not having to spend 10bn on ID cards...

Would you be able to get a job under a Labour government though CarGirl?

Scrapping ID cards is going to 'free up' alot of money! They were pointless in the first place.