Sentences with word «skiver»

«Does the prime minister recall that under the time he became prime minister under the coalition and at the time when he was dividing the nation between skivers and scroungers, I asked him a very important question about the windfall he received when he wrote off the mortgage of the premises in Notting Hill and I said to him he didn't write off the mortgage of the one the taxpayers were helping to pay for at Oxford.

It's especially so when the alienating rhetoric of «strivers v skivers» is rampant within the Conservative ranks.

Today, however, Downing Street believes there is unlimited mileage in setting the striving majority against supposed skivers.

, «Labour lets skivers off the hook!»

While the film does offer something of a window on post-war peacetime Britain, most of the action takes place in the barracks where Bill and Percy get into scrapes with varying consequences and often with the help of skiver and trickster Redmond, performed brilliantly by the exquisite Pat Shortt.

For smaller tables and desks, a thinner lambskin leather called skiver is suggested; a 122 x 61 cm lining costs # 125.

His schism between skivers and strivers is an illusion: working parents claim tax credits too.

This is evident in parliamentary debates about suffrage but also in the modern language of «makers and takers», «skivers and strivers», or Mitt Romney's famous «47 % comment».

Indeed, one of the most striking features of this government's unfair approach to deficit reduction, for all their nasty, divisive rhetoric about «skivers», has been its attacks on support for people in work - punishing people who are trying to do the right thing

The frontbench were applauded for opposing the 1 % cap on benefit increases — a mere 50p a week for an unemployed under - 25 — and rejected splits between «strivers» and «skivers».

While dividing the country into strivers and skivers, setting neighbour against neighbour (according to George Osborne this has something to do with the state of our curtains).

In the parlance of the hour, he seeks to set the strivers against the skivers.

#newsnight Not just libdems unhappy at terms like «skivers».

Sarah Wollaston, the Tory GP, for example, said last night: «Not just libdems unhappy at terms like «skivers».

Benedict Brogan in his blog named Sarah Wollaston as a Tory MP unhappy about George Osborne's «skivers» rhetoric.

After Sarah Wollaston posted a tweet about her objection to «skivers» rhetoric (see 9.44 am), her Tory colleague Laura Sandys posted a tweet saying she agreed.

It is a good answer to the «striver versus skiver» nonsense.