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Originally Posted by Mancie
I think this government decided from day one they would cut the income of the poorest people in this country because that is what a tory government will always do because it is the simple way to bring down borrowing..but it is not working..sacking tens of thousands of working people and then targeting them as scroungers is not a good policy..maybe you need to get the reality check.  |
In George Osborne's Autumn statement he uplifted benefits and incapacity benefit by 5.2%, the rate of inflation in September.
Ah, you may say...it is traditional to do that...increase benefits by the rate of inflation.......but he didn't
have to do that. He could, in these times of financial difficulty, have chosen to leave the benefits as they were.
Currently workers in all sectors are having to deal with payfreezes, which in real terms amount to a pay cut.