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Treasury minister David Gauke on child benefit losers.
By New Statesman Published 02 November 2012 8:41
The Conservative Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke. Photograph: Getty Images.
I think there’s a lot of people who are in favour of reducing the deficit but then when it’s something that affects them there can be a degree of fiscal nimbyism.
Conservative Teasury minister David Gauke tells families losing their child benefit to stop complaining.
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6 comments
A family needs 3 kids to keep the UK population at replacement level. Some of the country's new subjects have been doing their best and now Gaulke wants to tie a knot in it.
Of course there is a virtual tidal wave of migrant EU workers bearing down on UK borders.
Ready and able to work, brought to adulthood and employment age by another state, these people are self-starters and do not require coddling. And they're mighty cheap too.
Ancient Rome is still the template for the UK elite. Replace the native population with newcomers eager and willing to gain Roman, oops, sorry, British citizenship and onward and upward.
No wonder the UK upper class and wealthy immigrant clique were so anxious for the Berlin Wall to fall.
Serfdom is back bigger and better than ever.
Yes, Squire
Unfortunately history is full of people like Mr. Gaulke M.P and Mr. Ian Duncan Smith; years ago, they said they were only following orders.
David Gauke - another Iain Duncan Smith in the making - another sick puppy.
Oddly this MP has 3 kids, but has a problem people having more then two. He was so outraged as the child benefit cleared the bank.
Curiously, I've yet to see an obvious reduction in the living standards of M.P.s.
We still pay for their food, heating, lighting, council tax, we subsidise their restaurants, their bars, purchase them expensive wines we cannot afford ourselves and pay them a very generous package of pension and severance payments when their constituents feel they can no longer suffer them.
They have an unique situation where they pay no tax on their expenses and when discovered to have acted outside the law, apparently it's adequate to apologise and pretend to repay the money.
Their nefarious dealings with corporate lobbyists must remain opaque to us and it would require extensive detective work to discover how many 'fact finding' tours are little more than jollies at the taxpayer's expense.
I believe that Mr Gaulke M.P. once remarked that he thought it immoral to pay tradesmen in cash, no doubt the suggestion being that they may not pay all the tax due to the Exchequer.
Mr Gaulke M.P. previously worked for Mcfarlanes a corporate law firm with expertise in 'tax and structuring', his wife is a professional support lawyer specialising in corporate tax.
What's really frightening about this is a) it reveals that nothing else the government has done to "reduce the deficit" will impact even slightly on higher earners; and b) Tories assume that better off people don't care about the cuts to services, forcing people out of their homes, targetting the disabled etc - reflective of their views but not necessarily the wider country.