More than half of UK households get more in benefits than they pay in tax, says think

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The Centre for Policy Studies believes in freedom and responsibility. One of Britain’s best known and most respected think tanks, the Centre develops and promotes policies to limit the role of the state, to encourage enterprise and to enable the institutions of society – such as families and voluntary organizations - to flourish.
The Centre was founded by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher in 1974 to promote the principles of a free society and has since played a global role in the dissemination of free market economics. Its role in developing the policies of privatisation, low-tax government and support for the family, is recognised across the world.
Independent of all political parties and special interest groups, the Centre is a non-profit-making organisation which relies on the donations of individuals and companies to carry out its work.

Oh yes, the CPS, set up by Conservatives to be independent

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Cameron demands an opt-out on EU job laws: Prime Minister will seek to scrap maximum 48-hour working week in renegotiation with Brussels

• Claimed working hours limit under Blair has put patient care at risk
• Prime Minister also seeking to scrap rules giving agency workers the same pay and rights as full-time employees, agreed by Gordon Brown
• Downing Street have said demands are just 'more speculation' over talks

David Cameron is to demand new opt-outs on EU employment rules in his renegotiation talks with the European Union.
The Prime Minister will seek to restore two key exceptions on the EU?s social chapter that were jettisoned by Tony Blair.
He hopes to make fresh headway in clawing back powers ahead of Britain?s in-out referendum on Europe next year.
If he is successful, the UK would no longer to forced to abide by the EU working time directive, long seen by Eurosceptics as an emblem of Brussels interference.
The opt-out was negotiated by John Major when the working time directive was drawn up in 1993 as part of the Maastricht treaty.
It guarantees employment terms such as a maximum 48-hour week and four weeks of paid holiday per year, as well as rules on hours of rest for shift workers.
However, Mr Blair took the UK into the directive in 1998 with the proviso that individual workers could ask to be voluntarily excluded from the 48-hour maximum.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ony-Blair.html

Hmm item 3 on my list of things he'd do.... odd eh

It is not yet known whether the move would allow companies to ask employees to work unlimited hours, or whether Mr Cameron would replace the directive with tailored British legislation.

Like work until you're dead so that we don't have to pay you a pension perhaps....

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ERR PARTLY ON TOPIC:-

Exclude my non polish naybours, they want their a na logs telly back.

why not have a system where the voters say what they want, new skools, hospitals, doctors, chuck the irritants out that no speak Inglush etc.

vote using your dk user name and password, via PM, fax, telex, carrier pigoen, flying pig, youtuba, heavy-r or Tweet!

Rather than paying for knobs like Arnold Rimmer MP ?100K + to go against his constituents.

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Not being a UK resident, I think I have to vote by flying pig init.

[GastonJ]

ERR PARTLY ON TOPIC:- Exclude my non polish naybours, they want their a na logs telly back. why not have a system where the voters say what they want, new skools, hospitals, doctors, chuck the irritants out that no speak Inglush etc. vote using your dk user name and password, via PM, fax, telex, carrier pigoen, flying pig, youtuba, heavy-r or Tweet! Rather than paying for knobs like Arnold Rimmer MP ?100K + to go against his constituents.

you're asking for democracy you really should learn that's an illusion bought to you by tw@ mp's who you pay to make that decision for you. Think of mp's as your overpaid servants, who ride on the gravy train of life and do nothing you want for your own good.

[GastonJ]

Budget 2015: Squeeze to hit 13m families, says IFS

Thirteen million UK families will lose ?260 a year on average because of the Budget's tax and benefits changes, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
Tax credit changes could hit three million families, which are likely to lose an average of ?1,000, it said.
Even taking into account higher wages, people receiving tax credits would be "significantly worse off", said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS.
The chancellor said most workers would be better off under Budget changes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33463864

They must have missed something from the quote, so I've filled it in for them The chancellor said "most workers, who voted for the Tories and Tory donors, would be better off under Budget changes. The rest can go f**k themselves"