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It’s a hard life
Treasury minister David Gauke has been defending cuts to child benefit. Bearing in mind that he is a former corporate lawyer and his wife is a corporate tax lawyer, “when asked how his own family would deal with the loss of the benefit, Mr Gauke said: “Well, I think, we’ll just have to cope. Households, I suppose, have to live. We all have to live within our means, just like the country.””
Excuse me! We’ll just have to cope. What’s he going to do, give the butler a pay cut? My heart bleeds for him.
Behave, we are here to empathise and provide answers.
Lets see. How can we get round this reduction?
Got it!
He can claim it on his expenses.
Or, I’m sure his wife will come up with something.
I can probably arrange a food parcel for him if it would help?
It’s easy to accuse others of nimbyism when you’ve got, fiscally speaking, a huge back yard.
It’s easy to accuse others of nimbyism when you’ve got, fiscally speaking, a huge back yard.
ach we’re all in this together - back yard or no back yard.
As Orwell might have said if he’d been alive today, we’re all in it together but some are in it more than others.
As Orwell might have said if he’d been alive today, we’re all in it together but some are in it more than others.
My grandad would have said ” We might all be in the same boat - but some have cabins.”