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General Topics => The Debating Chamber => Topic started by: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 10:14:50 AM

Title: Hard Working Families
Post by: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 10:14:50 AM: Press Release.

The policy of H.M. Government to enable people to work hard and have children so they can become hard working families. The entirety of this Government’s social programme is to facilitate hard working families in being hard working families through our hard working families initiative aimed at hard working families.

The rest of you can sod off.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Eric on December 20, 2012, 13:17:36 PM: Gets my vote!
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 13:28:25 PM: Are you a hard working family?
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: nichola on December 20, 2012, 13:50:21 PM: "Hard-working families on low incomes who are forced to rely on benefit top-ups just so they can afford to live and pay their basic bills will be £15 a week worse off after three years – that’s £780 a year with the combined impact of cuts to the welfare budget."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/families-bearing-the-brunt-of-coalition-cuts-1485189

Do you think they mean just hard working families who are fortunate enough to be in a position that they don't need to rely on benefit top-ups just so they can afford to live and pay their basic bills?
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Scunner on December 20, 2012, 15:08:25 PM: Quote from: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 13:28:25 PM
Are you a hard working family?

Eric works hard in Uzumlu for his cold weather payments from the British government :D
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: kevin3 on December 20, 2012, 15:31:25 PM: Has NOBODY in Uzumlu got any morrells. :)
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: scorcher on December 20, 2012, 16:01:07 PM: None last year...
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Eric on December 20, 2012, 16:05:53 PM: Quote from: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 13:28:25 PM
Are you a hard working family?

For 35 years YES sometimes with my main job and 3 part time jobs as well to make ends meet. Now retired!
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 16:08:23 PM: The mantra "hard working families" seems to have been compulsory for politicians of any political party for the last 15 years or so. What triggered my tirade today was a particularly crass application of the formula. In defending Government proposals to allow people to build 6 metre extensions (or 8 metres for detached houses) without any requirement for planning permission, nor any consideration of their neighbours' concerns, a spokesbuffoon for the Department for Communities and Local Government said "The planning system needs to strike a balance between the rights of the homeowner and their neighbours, avoiding excessive red tape whilst still protecting local amenity. Our practical proposals make it easier for thousands of hard-working families to undertake home improvements to cater for a growing family”

Well, that's alright then. I was worried that single people might build extensions without permission, or couples, or bone-idle lottery-winning families, or undetected axe-weilding serial killers, or Eric in Uzumlu. My mind is completed put at rest knowing that hard working families will benefit.

This could be a universal justification for Government policy: "We need to invest in a replacement for the Trident missile in order to protect hard working families"; "Alcohol prices must rise in order to help hard working families keep sober (and hard working)"; "Teachers should work a 60 hour week in order to be free babysitters for hard working families"; and so on. You name it there will be a "hard working families" angle to it somewhere - several Government departments are devoted solely to the task of finding them.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Eric on December 20, 2012, 16:08:39 PM: Quote from: Scunner on December 20, 2012, 15:08:25 PM
Quote from: Colwyn on December 20, 2012, 13:28:25 PM
Are you a hard working family?

Eric works hard in Uzumlu for his cold weather payments from the British government :D

You do me an injustice. I am not old enough for cold weather payments. I have had nothing from any Government (apart from family allowance when my kids were little) and have been lucky to have worked all my life until I could take retirement.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Eric on December 20, 2012, 16:20:30 PM: Oh I seem to have stumbled into an adult topic. I was tongue in cheek to begin with on this topic. It seems to be a Tory knocking topic again. No matter who is in government we are never happy, and never will be. To misquote; you can please some of the people some of the time, but you will never please all of the people all of the time. That is the nature of running any business, from the corner cafe to Great Britain plc.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Scunner on December 20, 2012, 18:17:04 PM: Quote from: Eric on December 20, 2012, 16:08:39 PM
You do me an injustice. I am not old enough for cold weather payments.

Oops I do apologise Eric!
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: kevin3 on December 20, 2012, 20:08:12 PM: As mantra's go I think I prefer that one to several possible alternatives. ps Eric,I bet you could scream.!!! :) :)
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Eric on December 20, 2012, 22:10:41 PM: ;)
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: stoop on December 21, 2012, 07:33:28 AM: It's funny how there are so many foreign hard working families in the UK! I know many who have two or three jobs so they can provide for their families.

Nothing wrong with hard work :)
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: kevin3 on December 21, 2012, 09:16:03 AM: If there were far fewer "WONT WORK" and "IT'S OUR RIGHTS" families in the UK then just maybe the rest of us hard working families would'nt have to work so ######g hard. simples.!!! ;)
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Piscoe on December 21, 2012, 13:06:59 PM: I am unconvinced that any of our politicians know what exactly constitutes as "hard work".
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: tinkerman on December 21, 2012, 13:37:45 PM: I think Victoria Beckham has got apocalypse
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Colwyn on December 21, 2012, 14:50:35 PM: Quote from: Piscoe on December 21, 2012, 13:06:59 PM
I am unconvinced that any of our politicians know what exactly constitutes as "hard work".
I think you're right. But they do know that it is something families do (called "famblies" on Eastenders according to Hilary). They probably think it is something about putting children up chimneys.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Scunner on December 21, 2012, 15:03:06 PM: Eastenders is different. Everyone who lives in "The Square" works in "The Square". Nobody has a long daily commute to suffer. This is the future - get a job somewhere in your street and enjoy a shorter working day AND save the planet.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Colwyn on December 21, 2012, 15:13:58 PM: The notion that Eastenders is the future of the planet is the most dismal, depressing, bowel-twisting, putrefying thing I've come across since I had bacterial blood poisoning from the streptococcus bovis bug.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Scunner on December 21, 2012, 15:21:49 PM: I remember Ted Bovis from out of Hi-de-hi
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: Colwyn on December 21, 2012, 15:55:17 PM: Ted Bovis after doing three rounds with streptococcus.

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/skeleton_zps567f133c.jpg).

Hi-de-hi!
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: jrichards1 on December 22, 2012, 09:13:07 AM: Why do these hard working families get their income topped up with benifits from other hard working families because employers are not paying a decent living wage.
I understand a small struggling business (been there), but massive corporations earning billions in profits should be able to pay decent wages.
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: kevin3 on December 22, 2012, 10:47:57 AM: And pay decent tax. !!!!! >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: nichola on December 22, 2012, 16:45:52 PM: Hear hear jrichards1 and kevin3
Title: Re: Hard Working Families
Post by: johntaylor49 on December 29, 2012, 12:20:20 PM: Quote from: Scunner on December 21, 2012, 15:21:49 PM
I remember Ted Bovis from out of Hi-de-hi

Ho de Ho!