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Originally Posted by Maggy J
One thing in her favour was that she never went after the disabled and terminally ill like the present lot seem intent on doing.
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Don't get me wrong Osem.I'm not a complete fan of the lady.I disagreed with a lot of her policies and her government's actions.However in some ways she was more acceptable than the present bunch.
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Indeed. She cut welfare spending with the 1986 Social Security Act, by abolishing Supplementary Benefit and replacing it with Income Support.
Additionally, "Additional Requirements" were scrapped in favour of premiums, in an attempt to target more at pensioners, lone parents and the disabled.
This was mainly paid for by reducing benefit for single householders under the age of 25.
Apart from Child Benefit and the Christmas Bonus, to my knowledge, she never failed to uprate benefits with inflation.
This lot have put in place policies that have led to people with heart conditions being sent back to work and dying, suicides with the worry and people with cancer being told to look for work- disgusting.
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Originally Posted by gba93
Not forgetting. of course, that it was her stance on "there is no such thing as society" which gave us the excesses and lack of responsibilty in the eighties which has led to the shower we have now and in that I include many current politicans, certain News Corp individuals and many of our esteemed "bankers"  |
Yup, she started the me, me, me greedy society that we still have today.