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Old 07-05-2019, 09:09   #2165
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Re: The state benefits system mega-thread.
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Originally Posted by denphone View Post
What you mean like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...erable-hardest

And this.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ty-frank-field

And this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45824590

And this.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8603706.html

Hang on there is more....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...cuts-austerity

And more...

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk...80%99-benefits


l don't excuse Labour either as they were just as culpable for many things as well as the Conservatives for the savage benefit cuts and demonising of benefit claimants.

By the way OB take your partisan political colours off for once and you might just see the woods from the trees.
These articles are almost exclusively about universal credit, which is designed to ensure that people are better off in work than out of work. There have been issues concerning implementation and of course the austerity cuts (due to Labour's mismanagement of the economy), but these will be over by 2020.

You fail to mention the other side of the equation, such as the implementation of the minimum living wage, bringing the lower paid out of tax altogether, etc, all of which Corbyn voted against, no doubt because he didn't want the Conservatives to look good.

I think it's you, Den, with respect, that needs to look at all the facts and not just the lefty view of them. People like me, who slant to the right of centre, do want to alleviate poverty as much as possible, but we can't spend money we don't have. Money tree politics is just childish.
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