Clegg: 'Cut benefits for wealthy'

“Clegg should be named 'Clog' because he's certainly as wooden as a plank.
He's probably hoping to send pensioners cash around the world instead as "foreign aid"”

“The Deputy Prime Minister insisted he was driven by the principle of fairness and that meant "money should not be paid to those who do not need it". How can HE actually say this and insist pensioners pay for a TV Licence when they paid the George Entwistle £450 000 for resigning as the Director Genral of the BBC after 58 days? It is just plain obscene.
OBSCENE.”

“But ... as we all know ,this will be aimed at pensioners who are not millionares ,but people who have worked hard and have a middle ranged house and thought they were working for security . It is these that are now deemed to be the "wealthy ones". Socialist Britain picking on the intelligent .
Just as you thought you have worked for 50 years to relax.... BANG ... you will stilll be screwedto pay for others who have not bothered.
No wonder people with any sense emigrate to spain or stick their money offshore or whatever .... to get away from the hundreds of taxes and thieving way of life our politicians devise for us that even the sheriff of nottingham would have been proud of . Where is Robin Hood when you need him ? These days he would be on a wanted poster and the public would be grassing him up because they are brainwashed .”

“If I was wealthy and more clever than the average coronation st watcher and paid millions in tax... I would be very peed off when no hopers complained I am not entitled to what the rules says I am entitled to .”

“heyheyhey
Good comment and the only one that gives a true reflection of what is actually going on.
For those who wish to look at the bigger picture then Google the Barclay twins or catch the most recent Panorama programme on the BBC iplayer.
Balance the books? Yeh,right.”

“Cut benefits for the wealthy, how many MPs claim all the benefits they're 'entitled ' too, stones and glass houses”

“Benefit cuts for the Wealthy - roughly translated will in effect mean benefit cuts for the middle earner - daresay if you pay into a private pension & save hard you will, in the future, no longer qualify for the state old age pension even though you maybe have paid National insurance / tax all your working life. How do you assess the wealthy - I remember some years applying for a grant, did not get all that I expected but the 'millionaire' businessman with his Rolls Royce & mansion did get it only on the basis that he was one the poor who could afford a really good accountant.”

“Get rid of some of these politicians would save a decent amount of money or at the least a pay cut”

“They would save a fortune if they cut child benefit after the second child. In the old days people had big families because many did not survive into adulthood. That no longer applies so anyone who wants a large family should be prepared to fund it. It would cut at a stroke the large amount of benefits paid to immigrants who arrive here with very large families and expect to get a big house on top of the benefits.
Pensioners who have worked all their lives and built up some savings for their old age should not be penalised. If you're going to cut benefits concentrate on those who have paid nothing into the pot and that applies to the workshy whites as well as the immigrants.”

“cassiebiker.

You don't have to be old or young to retain the ability to empathise with others and resist selfishness.

Unfortunately there is some truth in that joke about knowing when you are old............it's when your narrow waist and broad mind have changed places.

Rick O'Shay
Zog”