£12 Billion cuts in welfare announcement.

baxie

Is today's announcement of £12billion cut from welfare the beginning of another witch hunt from those in power against the sick and disabled?

Opinions?

jacques_chirac

No, as the cuts are not planned until after the next elections, and the chances of the current govt retaining power are pretty low. This is nothing more than lip service, Osbourne trying to appeal to the tax payer. What he fails to realise is that many benefit claimants are also tax payers!

TheSaint_2

But thankfully there are still more tax payers than claimants, so it may win him votes. It may swing me to vote for them.

Richie-from-the-Boro

If at a stroke he obliterated carers / MAT / JSA / maternity and IIB and all fraud [ £1.2 bi££ion] across the whole benefit system he would never save the 12 bi££ion.

Most remaining attackable benefits are paid to working people and pensioners in the form of the safety net, the only attackable money is working people's benefit help, and pensioners help.

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TheSaint wrote: »

But thankfully there are still more tax payers than claimants, so it may win him votes. It may swing me to vote for them.

you may end up being very lonely as apparently a new polls show that 37% of those who voted tory in 2010(thats 3.3 million)wont do so in 2015 :j

vision2009

CONDEMS out NOW
and don't come back

markmarkmark

It's entirely possible. First you invest a couple of billion in a new computer system to work out who gets the cuts. Then the computer system does not work. Then you throw another couple of billion at it. Finally you give up and scrap it and try and use excel manually. Meanwhile the debt has grown alarmingly rather than been reduced as you promised, so that means you need even more cuts than before. So you invest in a new computer system....

sandy_smith_2

Britain's national debt is now £1.25 trillion - that's more than £45,000 for every person in employment in this country. It costs us £50b a year just to service the interest on our debt.

I think most of us are in for a shock when Labour win the next election because I doubt they will reverse any of the current spending cuts. In fact they'll probably just add to them.

devizes18193

vision2009 wrote: »

CONDEMS out NOW
and don't come back

As much i i agree with this , I would not put money on it.

vision2009

This government is having a laugh at our expense.
We are treated by others the way we allow them to, and don't they know it.