GingerTravel
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Or, perhaps it's a damage limitation exercise for the MP from South West Surrey (one of the few Tories who might survive post election) appealing to his core demographic. It's a ridiculous statement countrywide (£100k up north is a extremely high salary) but I do get the point he was trying to make (badly) - which is that the cost of housing and childcare in a few very expensive areas in the south means that what seems a very high income doesn't go as far as one might think."I don’t feel guilty for those that didn’t have the same drive to do well or have a different work ethic."
So I am sure you're right, and everyone you grew up with got exactly what they deserved in life based on how hard they worked for it. Given that, I can understand how hard it must be for you to see that your mates stories (and your own) aren't everyone's circumstances. For the Chancellor of the Exchequer of His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom to say that he thinks an important part of his work in the next few months should be to look at ways of helping families with an income of 100,000 GBP as it doesn't stretch as far as it used to is an amazingly politically inept position to take, at the very least.