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Following on from Mareks post no 36. ie married couple earning 80,000 still get the benefit, one person in marriage working getting 44,000, doesnt get the benefit. It looks like George Osborne has dropped a public relations clanger here on a big big scale, worst of it is that he is alienating his own voters in middle England and even worse still, alienating the tory supporting newspapers...which takes a lot of doing.
So...how to win friends and influence people..ermm no..how to lose friends and not influence anybody and on a mightily grand scale.
The calculations are askew. Mums staying at home with three children for example are bashed in a big way and lose out. The husband might be working but if he makes more than 44,000 then they get no benefit at all. On the other hand....Husband and wife working, kids in care of some sort, each earning 43,000, total income in house £86,000, get the full monty of benefit!
I think this one may have to go back to the drawing board which is going to prove mightily embarassing for David Cameron and with huge eggies on 'Ossy' Osbornes face Im afraid.