25/10/2010 by JohnBuck.

The Institute For Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that the Coalitions tax and benefit changes coming into force by 2014-15 is regressive. So why aren’t the Coalition doing something about this now? The current Treasury analysis suggests that it is not “regressive”, but these figures exclude a third of the benefit changes planned by the government, and don’t go up to 2014-15.

The changes excluded are definitely regressive - they have the greatest effect, relative to income, on people at the lower end of the income scale. Where is the fairness in this Coalition? I definitely know who I’m going to vote for in the next general election . . .

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16/10/2010 by Fin.

I am so fed up with the coverage of the spending review by the BBC. Every bloody day they remind us of the debt this country is in. “A season of special coverage. Find out what the spending review is, how it works, what it means and the debate around it.” They obviously haven’t got anything better to tell us about. Also this so called review won’t affect these overpaid stuck up presenters one bit . . . oooh maybe a little bit of child benefit. This is definitely overkill and I do wish they would just SHUT UP!

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03/10/2010 by TonyM.

I just wondered why no one has said it but David Miliband has been so childish and such a bad looser in the fight for the Labour leadership. I hope he has nothing more to do with politics with that kind of attitude. With brothers there is always one that rules the roost, I think we know which one that was. Ed Miliband only won by 1% which was such a shock to David, you could see it on his face. David has probably never lost anything before to Ed, and I bet he didn’t even let Ed use his trainset when they were younger. I shall be voting Labour in the next election, thank you Ed for helping to bring much needed change the Labour party.

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