Good post eleothan, I read that too in the Guardian, very sobering read it was too. It makes a complete lie of Cameron's claim that everyone claiming working tax credits is going to be £20 a week better off from next April due to the increase of 50p per hour in the minimum wage or whatever they call it now. These examples in The Guardian are all paid more than the minimum hourly rate anyway, so will not get the additional £20 per week. Also, as I have said before, a lot of people receiving working/child tax credits are getting them due to working less than 40 hours a week for reasons of child care. Learning support assistants in schools are only paid, as I understand it, for the hours spent in school, in the classroom, not paid for lunch hours, so work a maximum of 25 hours per week. This is a full time job with no possibility of extra hours, so what are they supposed to do? I am delighted that the HoL has thrown this back, I am not a big fan of the principle of a house filled up with inherited titles and people who have served their political party well, but I do think we need a second chamber and this action has proved their validity. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the new started coming through, I would imagine the language was rather like a scene in The Thick of It
I can't believe my car insurance has risen by that much!