A lone parent with two children under 11 and childcare costs, who is a private tenant and works 16 hours per week at minimum wage, with all benefits included will average a net income of £486-59 weekly.A couple in a similar position and without childcare costs would have to work - wait for it - 116 [that is ONE HUNDRED and sixteen] hours per week to achieve more or less the same level of income AND with an extra person in the household.
And yet the left have the audacity to talk of 'social justice'!
This situation becomes even more morally reprehensible in the countless cases where the single parent has taken this route as 'a career move' or has drifted into the situation through out and out fecklessness rather than because of genuine reasons such as abandonment, illness or bereavement.
Which major political party would tackle this? - Of course. None!
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=462351&in_author_id=382
SOURCE: Reform/Dept of Work & Pensions.
