Can we beat the poverty trap?
Posted by Andrew Pierce on August 10, 2010 at 13:25PM
Also Britain to suffer EU tax
Forget the size of the deficit. Forget the spending cuts that are coming to try to plug the gap in the nation’s finances. Frank Field the Labour MP who is advising the Cabinet on how to beat the poverty trap, says the biggest crisis is the scandal over poor parenting. He talks of 800,000 ‘rag bag’ parents – but may be you think there are more. And shouldn’t we start teaching good parenting on school, put it on the syllabus. Petrol is rising in price of £1.26 a litre by January – Vat will put costs up even higher. The property market is showing signs of running out of steam. But rather than whinge about it – shouldn’t we rejoice in the fact that if prices come down first time buyers can get on the market. And the EU wants to impose new taxes – direct from Brussels on energy, banking transactions, and flights. Why? At a time of an economic downturn should the EU expect us to have another tax – to help the poorer countries in the EU. And after the murder of the Birmingham muslim couple, who had gone to Pakistan to inform relatives they had dropped plans to force their daughters into marriage isn’t it time the law was changed to make forced marriages illegal? I certainly think so