tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post2600314227916660389..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Fraser Nelson accuses Ed Balls of lying - Balls explodes!Mark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-21684788941230207422009-07-01T17:31:32.253+01:002009-07-01T17:31:32.253+01:00Mark
Fraser is wrong. I've had a go at why h...Mark<br /><br />Fraser is wrong. I've had a go at why here:<br /><br />http://www.freethink.org/index.php/freethinkers/5-freethinkers/384-nelson-debate-balls<br /><br />Nelson gets away with being the Man explaining the Debt to the Innumerate too often. His analysis is normally overly melodramatic, and wrong.Gileshttp://www.freethink.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-59853880439424977662009-06-30T17:39:44.916+01:002009-06-30T17:39:44.916+01:00Anonymous. I hope this answers your question:
ht...Anonymous. I hope this answers your question:<br /><br /><br />http://www.libdems.org.uk/www.libdems.org.uk/home/pensions-and-benefits;show.html/<br /><br />Policy is aimed at simplifying the benefits system to make it easier for people to understand what they can claim and hopefully claim successfully.<br /><br />We've also pledged to "cut the extra costs (‘Poverty Premium’) paid by poor people and reduce problems of debt – including abolishing higher utility prepayment charges; allowing social pricing for utility bills for vulnerable groups; increasing the availability of low cost home energy conservation measures; extending the Winter Heating Allowance to those on higher rate disability benefits; and improving access to the Social Fund.<br />We will also seek to ensure more free generic financial advice and tougher action against irresponsible lending practices." (from "Freedom from Poverty, Opportunity for All")<br /><br />At the same time, we want to take people out of tax with our redistributive taxation policies - that does not help people who are entirely dependent on benefits, but the idea is to reduce/abolish the poverty trap by making getting into some work actually rewarding.Mark Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-75768361996367088202009-06-30T17:03:56.137+01:002009-06-30T17:03:56.137+01:00Can somebody tell me what do the lib Dem's thi...Can somebody tell me what do the lib Dem's think about welfare reforms, being disabled myself I've left the Labour party, but cannot find the lib Dem's response to the disabled...I really would be interested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-41432291298654493842009-06-30T16:43:08.935+01:002009-06-30T16:43:08.935+01:00Excellent stuff - the price of liberty is eternal ...Excellent stuff - the price of liberty is eternal vigilance - and the freedom to speak provided by the blogosphere enables scrutiny of the minutiae.<br /><br />Who watches the watchers - bloggers, of course!Oranjepanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150901449640162740noreply@blogger.com