04-11-2014, 12:29 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Martin White Wrote:This is all part of the Great Tory Lie that the national Benefits bill is caused by "shirkers", when in fact the great majority of "welfare" spending in the UK is on pensions and people who are in work receiving benefits to supplement their low incomes. In reality, the State is subsidising the profits of big business, while CEO pay rockets.
This can only come from the brain of a man who, whilst Tory leader, claimed his haircuts and underpants on expenses, claimed a £38 breakfast on expenses, paid his wife thousands of pounds a year from public funds as his "Diary Secretary" while in fact she did nothing. Iain Duncan Smith is a despicable hypocrite, coward and a bully.
Yes, yes, and yes Martin. And IDS is despicable vile little man. Just like the Tories.
You also notice, that despite the incontrovertible truth of the breakdown of welfare payments, the Government keep up this "strivers v shirkers" rhetoric, aided by Channel 4 and Channel 5 doing programs like "Benefit Street" which portray benefit recipients as feckless scroungers. All lapped up by the mass media especially the Mail and the Express.
Chief Whip Sir George Young (convicted drink-driver) described the homeless as "those people you step over on the way out of the Opera".
Compassionate Conservatives. An oxymoron if ever there was one.