THE intervention of the House of Lords opposing the Conservatives’ tax credit cuts has for the time being halted the devastating prospect of millions of poor and vulnerable families being made up to £1,300 per year worse off.
Our Mr Glen was fully supportive of these cuts earlier in the year after the Conservatives were elected and he still is. Perhaps he needs to visit our food banks to discover how some people are barely coping at the moment with what they have to live on and how the proposed cuts will add to that burden.
The House of Lords accused Mr Cameron of lying before the election about tax credit cuts not being touched. As Mr Glen supports the cuts I just wonder how many of the affected families will vote for him next time around.
If the Conservatives were as aggressive with the many large corporations that avoid paying millions of pounds of tax each year, perhaps balancing the books would not be quite so painful for the vulnerable.
JERRY FORDE Pitton
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