Happy New Year? It was until the Tory-led coalition once again began its attack on the poorly paid

It was until the Tory-led coalition once again began its attack on the poorly paid.

In fact the attack on the low wage earner and the people on benefits began just after Christmas with the right wing Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne demanding that the National State Welfare budget be cut by £10 billion. Where did that figure come from? Was it just plucked out of the air as a good “sound bite” figure to ensure the headlines would follow in the Daily Express and the Daily Mail?

I have not seen any figures to justify this claim that it is £10 billion that needs to be cut from the Welfare budget. It appears to tally with the Tory led coalition aim to cut the loan deficit.

I am also astonished, as far as I have seen/heard at the way the media such as the BBC television and radio channels, Channel 4 or the ITV news have never crossed examined the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on how he came to this conclusion.  Just a thought, I find it a wee bit strange that you never see George Osborne give interviews. Is that due to his past performances in live interviews and gaffe blown comments?

On Tuesday 8^th January 2013 the House of Commons voted to restrict any rise of benefits of working age to 1% over the next 3 years. This included Working Tax Credits, a payment by the taxpayer to boost the pay of low-paid workers rather than have the worker being paid a living wage by the large companies who make billion of pounds profit to pay their shareholders a large dividend at the tax payer’s expense.

When I say shareholders I am not talking about the person in the street who may have a few shares in a company but the very large global companies listed on the London, New York and the Tokyo stock exchange which make billions of pounds/dollars profit every year.

--McTaggart

A short brief about my life

My name is Hanad Mohamed.  I’m from Somalia, Mogadishu but now I live in London. I came to the UK when I was 12. I'm 21 years old. I like living in London because it’s big city with a lot of opportunities and it is very popular.

London has many attractions, like buildings and Trafalgar Square. I also like Oxford Circus because of the shops they have there.

My favourite team are from London and they are called Arsenal FC. We are GUNNERS, London’s best team, the home of football. I support them because they are a good quality team with good players and we  are gonna win the Champions League this year.

I’m studying in Careers in Level 1 Business at Westminster Kingsway College and I have just started yesterday. It was a brilliant day. We weren’t able to do  that much of learning because there was  a mix up with the timetable.We did two exams in the morning. We did a numeracy exam to find out what level I’m working at. It was a bit hard but I got through.The second lesson was off because there was no  teacher there. The last lesson we did was a Literacy exam to also find out what level I’m working at.

Today I had one lesson where we worked as group of four and looked up jobs on the internet  and  wrote about what we found. The next lesson was cancelled due to the teacher not being there (again!).

I  would like to achieve a certificate that allows me to study level 2 Business within the same college.