WORKING PARENTS ARE BEING TREATED LIKE FOOLS!!
Imagine this.
You get up at 6am every morning while it’s still dark.
You go to work, you graft, you pay your taxes, and you try to give your kids a better life.
Then you find out that parents who don’t work and live on benefits will now get an extra £4,500 a year just because their child starts an apprenticeship.
And you?
You get nothing.
This isn’t just policy.
It feels personal.
Working families are the ones holding this country together. We pay for the schools, the hospitals, the benefits system itself. Yet time and time again we’re the ones left at the back of the queue.
Under the new scheme, families on Universal Credit will be compensated when their teenager starts an apprenticeship so they don’t lose money.
On paper it sounds helpful. In reality it’s another reminder that the system looks after those who take more than they give, while the people who keep everything going are expected to just shut up and pay.
It should always pay more to work than to stay on benefits.
That’s not right-wing. That’s not left-wing. That’s basic fairness.
When a government keeps rewarding the least deserving and ignoring the people who actually fund it, something is badly broken.
How much longer are ordinary working families expected to put up with this?
@ListerLawrence But is it? RR history, many owners, cat damage? Correct miles.... Your only giving half the story... If mint what would you offer 10 percent less?
Just to put things in perspective.
The average state pension in Spain is higher than in the UK.
The cost of living in Spain is 33% lower than in the UK.
Spain's equivalent to our council tax is about a tenth of what we pay in the UK. And they get daily bin collections.
Where's our money going?
• UK healthy life expectancy has fallen by 2 years over the last decade.
• UK age of retirement has risen by 2-7 years during the same period.
Working longer, getting ill faster.