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22/10/2015
Conservatives Slammed Over Proposed Cuts To Tax Credits
The SDLP has hit out at the Conservatives over their proposed cuts to tax credits.
Foyle MP Mark Durkan said it will drive thousands of families in Northern Ireland into poverty.
Mr Durkan said: "People who are working hard to bring home food to their children and support their family are going to feel betrayed by these measures which the Conservatives are introducing.
"I do not accept the nonsense we heard from Conservative Members, with some exceptions, who were more or less trying to tell us that low-paid workers should now be the acceptable casualties of a dogmatic imperative of austerity – they should not.
"Conservative Members need to realise that labels they put on this and all the clichés they come up with are not going to give buying power to the money they are leaving people with."
(CD)
Foyle MP Mark Durkan said it will drive thousands of families in Northern Ireland into poverty.
Mr Durkan said: "People who are working hard to bring home food to their children and support their family are going to feel betrayed by these measures which the Conservatives are introducing.
"I do not accept the nonsense we heard from Conservative Members, with some exceptions, who were more or less trying to tell us that low-paid workers should now be the acceptable casualties of a dogmatic imperative of austerity – they should not.
"Conservative Members need to realise that labels they put on this and all the clichés they come up with are not going to give buying power to the money they are leaving people with."
(CD)
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