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To: Zac Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park and Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
Say no to tax credits cuts
Please stand against cuts to tax credits. Do everything you can to stop the government cutting this vital support for working families
Why is this important?
Tax credits are used to boost the wages of low income workers and act as a vital lifeline for many working families struggling to make ends meet.
My daughter is a junior doctor with a two year-old and a disabled partner. Child care is so expensive, so she has to work part time, and rent is so high, so her family rely on tax credits.
It's absurd that a young junior doctor and her family should face poverty because of the withdrawal of tax credits. And that's exactly what's happening under the current government. My daughter’s family is beleaguered on all fronts. This is the kind of hard-working family that the Tories talk about and the kind that society wants. So why the punishment?
It's going to mean that they can't buy shoes for their two-year old, or food, it's as bad as that. I can see a scenario where they'll be going to their local food bank, and that just doesn't make sense, that you can work so hard and be faced with going to a food bank.
I wonder how the public would feel if the doctor treating them for a heart attack had been queuing for a food bank earlier that day? She's doing life-saving work with all the extra stress of poverty.
My daughter is a junior doctor with a two year-old and a disabled partner. Child care is so expensive, so she has to work part time, and rent is so high, so her family rely on tax credits.
It's absurd that a young junior doctor and her family should face poverty because of the withdrawal of tax credits. And that's exactly what's happening under the current government. My daughter’s family is beleaguered on all fronts. This is the kind of hard-working family that the Tories talk about and the kind that society wants. So why the punishment?
It's going to mean that they can't buy shoes for their two-year old, or food, it's as bad as that. I can see a scenario where they'll be going to their local food bank, and that just doesn't make sense, that you can work so hard and be faced with going to a food bank.
I wonder how the public would feel if the doctor treating them for a heart attack had been queuing for a food bank earlier that day? She's doing life-saving work with all the extra stress of poverty.
