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Michael Rolls

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2020, 10:15:51 PM »
who looks after the children?
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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #2 on: Aug 11, 2020, 10:48:29 PM »
That's far too obvious Mike.  The children should be sent to work in t'mills or down t'mines along with t'parents.  ;D
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Michael Rolls

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #3 on: Aug 11, 2020, 11:04:07 PM »
Of course! How could I have missed something so obvious. I wonder if chimney sweeps get a company pension?
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Michael Rolls

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #4 on: Aug 11, 2020, 11:05:48 PM »
Of course! How could I have missed something so obvious. I wonder if chimney sweeps get a company pension? That’s another trade they could follow when t’mills and t’mines close
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Michael Rolls

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #5 on: Aug 11, 2020, 11:07:11 PM »
Something went wrong! That was supposed to be a single post
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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #6 on: Aug 12, 2020, 08:41:20 AM »
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/covid-devastating-families-as-one-million-single-parents-claim-universal-credit/ar-BB17Puis?ocid=msedgdhp


Why dont these single parents get a job.
Many years ago I was a single parent bringing up my two children after my first marriage failed.
I worked full time & it was hard going so not all single parents are on benefits Brian.
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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #7 on: Aug 12, 2020, 08:51:57 AM »
The women who let the side down make a living as a single parent.

Michael Rolls

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #8 on: Aug 12, 2020, 09:05:03 AM »
My mum was widowed just after her 40th birthday - three kids. She did get a widows pension - in today's purchasing power £54 a week and that was it, so she was a single parent for the rest of her life - a further 29 years
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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #9 on: Aug 12, 2020, 09:11:27 AM »
That's far too obvious Mike.  The children should be sent to work in t'mills or down t'mines along with t'parents.  ;D
It's all this prejudice against good old coal. Always work for children cleaning chimneys in the days of proper fires.
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Michael Rolls

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #10 on: Aug 12, 2020, 09:37:53 AM »
And if they were a bit tardy, you could always light a fire under them!
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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #11 on: Aug 12, 2020, 12:44:30 PM »
My wife's mother was widowed in 1940 whence her husband died at the age of 49 from being gassed in WW1.  She received no state help whatsoever to bring up a large family as her spouse had been a small businessman and it was reckoned there had been an irregularity in his National Insurance contributions. She therefore worked at two jobs; in a shop all day and then, after tea clocking on in a works canteen until the early hours, whence she would return home and snatch a few hours sleep.  Eventually she gave up the evening shift as her doctor said if she did not do so, her children would not have a mother!  Then they talk about hardships.

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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #12 on: Aug 12, 2020, 01:20:37 PM »
Don’t know they are born!
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Re: Single parents and Universal Credit.
« Reply #13 on: Aug 12, 2020, 07:40:00 PM »
My wife and I both worked all the time our children were living with us (now, at 25 and 28 they are up and away);
we just made sure that at least one of us was at home whehever a child was at home (rather than at school).


I have several children who attend my language school who have single paretns, or have divorced parents who stay in different places.


All those parents do their damndest to juggle their jobs around so they can have as much time as possible with their children.


Here in Bulgaria if you are a single parent and you don't have work you generally starve.
And why, forbye, should it be any other way.
I don't object to money from tax I pay being used to feed the daft and the lame; but lazy sh*t bags? Not at all.