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Please Go! 29 April 2009 There's a petition that has managed to get past the Downing Street censors, calling for Gordon Brown to resign. If you'd like to sign it, please click on this link: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/ . We're not biased or anything, but this is one of those times when we wish we had millions of members! Let's tell 'The Oaf' to go. The 'Nothing' Budget 22 April 2009 Today's budget did absolutely nothing for Tax Credit overpayment victims. Zero. Zilch. Zip. In fact, the budget did just about a whole, huge, nothing for anyone ..... although it was a mastery of illusion. On the TV broadcast, you couldn't see any sign of Gordon Brown's hand operating the Darling puppet! Harry Corbett would have been immensely proud ..... The 'Puppet Chancellor' had just a few moments where he looked as if the nearest lavatory would be the best option. On the other hand, whenever 'Gordon The Demented' felt hurt by the opposition chorus, he adopted that smug, self-congratulating and arrogant look that almost everyone in the country would like to physically wipe off his face; poking his extremely forked tongue, alternately, into each cheek. 'Child Tax Credit will be increasing!', and the Government have once again stated that they will not change the Tax Credit system. Well, boogaloo!! Over one-million people a year will be so happy to be told that they have yet another one-in-six chance of getting even deeper into debt. The Government is going to 'lend' them even more!! And the Government is still proud of the damage that Tax Credits do when they go wrong. Let's get this straight, once and for all. The only reason that the Tax Credit overpayment problem hasn't been sorted yet, and why the Government refuse to sort it, is that Tax Credits are Gordon Brown's 'baby'. When you combine that with the fact that he has surrounded himself with spineless and weak 'yes! people', who wouldn't dare upset the Gordon Brown boat because they would lose their place at the trough, then you approach the real truth. There are no other possible reasons why the Government, and all of the Labour Party lemmings who continue to support them, have done nothing to sort out the 'financial rape' that is still being carried out on good, honest and trusting citizens of the Britain that used to be Great. Conservative, Liberal Democrat and other MPs recognise the overpayment problem, and acknowledge that something must be done. However, Labour MPs, and the Party that supports and finances them, know just how much suffering and despair overpayments cause. Yet, even though they are quite aware of how Tax Credit overpayments ruin the lives and destroy the health and well-being of well over one-million families a year, driving the very poorest even deeper into poverty, the Government continue to turn a blind eye to the problem. The Labour Party, and each of their silent supporters, must bear their proportion of the blame. Like many, many of the electorate, I was a Labour voter. Never, never, never again !!! Roll on the election! It's time to vote these spineless, greedy, incompetent scum out of office. Let's Tell Timms and Hartnett 16 April 2009 Recently Stephen Timms, Financial Secretary
to the Treasury, announced that if claimants
“have informed the Tax Credit Office of errors
on the award notice and if those errors have led
to an overpayment, that overpayment is not
recoverable”. To the Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson he made the offer, "If she would like
to draw my attention to any examples of that
kind, that would be the outcome”, clearly
stating that “If there is an overpayment as a
result of an official error, but the customer
has met his or her responsibilities…by checking
the accuracy of the information on the award
notice, the overpayment will be written off”
(see
the official Hansard entry). Ali Myers-Ward |
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