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The ignored poor

The government have had a strategy for some time of ignoring those people who are on low pay, but don't have families.

That is how they ended up scrapping the 10p band and hitting this group of people particularly hard. When you take into account increasing food and energy costs there is a massive squeeze.

It will be interesting to see if they can bring something together that does not leave a big gap. I am not sure that this will be possible.

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