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Ministers are considering giving fuel vouchers to families on child tax credit and Mr Darling is looking at changes to stamp duty, including suspending it for a period to give a boost to the market.
Families with children and people trying to buy a house - the rest can get tae fuck. Is it not time for governments to drag their arses out of the 19th Century and acknowledge that it's not only families - constituted as mum, dad and 2.5 kids - that have to pay gas bills, and that not everyone is trying to or can afford to buy a house - stamp duty waived or not.
The house stuff is nonsense - the families stuff not so much. It's possible to survive as a healthy single adult on next to no money, not much fun but possible (been, done, bought £2 Primark t-shirt). You don't even *need* central heating or mains hot water or a washing machine. Once you throw kids into the mix, it isn't, and you do.
Also, the government uses 'families' to mean 'people with kids', not '2 parents with kids', so it's not fair to lump it as a Tory-style 'bring back the 50s' plot...
Posted by: john b at August 21, 2008 12:01 PM"You don't even *need* central heating or mains hot water or a washing machine. Once you throw kids into the mix, it isn't, and you do."
So if you don't breed then you can make do without decent heating and hot water !
Boli up kettles and wear lots of jumpers . Of course trips to the laundry might warm us all up.
I would say heating and hot water are pretty basics for anyone in the 21st century.