The EU flag
IT seems that many people don’t realise that the EU does not run our welfare system and has no control over it whatsoever.
It is this right wing Tory government that have introduced austerity and that means they, and only they, have cut our benefits.
People need to realise that the bankers took this country to the wall and the Tories are making millions of us pay for it while the super rich and the bankers get off scot-free.
I repeat it is not the EU who cut our benefits in half.
Michael Shaw
Lincoln Close
Tyldesley
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