Rich Tory MPs and social media loudmouths who declare they love their pets and country in their bio, but reveal they hate everyone they haven’t met in their posts - obsessed with theoreticals people spend their money on instead of food.
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Benefits are set at the lowest possible level, there’s no secret cheat code to live a comfortable life on the bare minimum. In one dreadful reality 2010 TV ‘experiment’ called Tower Block of Commons, they asked MPs to live on benefits for a week, and the Tory hid £50 in her bra.
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It would be interesting to see how many of those MPs that deem the parents to have failed in household budgeting were also rapped on the knuckles a decade ago for flagrant exploitation of the expenses system. Duck ponds rather than TVs.
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No, Dawn. It’s because they don’t feed them a scurvy inducing diet of instant noodles round the clock.
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What is your malfunction, you budget on £5.50 an hour with maybe 16 hours work one week, none the next.
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I'm not even sure they really believe it all anyway. It's a line to push to their core supporters who like to hear this stuff as confirmation of their prejudice and to feel OK about themselves.
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Absolutely. And a majority of people living in poverty are in working households. Even before the pandemic, work was not a reliable route out of poverty.
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My worry is how much worse do things have to get before the Janes realise? Or will they never realise? What does that mean for the country? https://twitter.com/jane738/status/1319329877695266820?s=20 … I'm not inciting a pile-on btw, I replied to her with links. She's yet to reply to me.
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I earn less now than I did 23 years ago and I work a 45 hour week. Unfortunately my bills have not followed the same trend. How can it be right that I work 9 hour days and still qualify for tax credits? Most people I know who qualify for benefits are in work
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Whilst it’s Women who are kept deliberately at the bottom of ladder whether at work in Communities or Society Then child poverty will continue. Let’s eradicate All forms of discrimination against women by supporting
#CEDAWPeoplesTribunal

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/cedaw-peoples-tribunal …pic.twitter.com/kD5ce9Jdvr
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