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| ANTI-AUSTERITY MARSH |
It is already amazing that the Tories asked Labour to back them in getting the bill through Parliament for the £12billion Welfare Cuts; after all their smears and lies they spread about Labour.
In my opinion it shows the Tories as shameless
and callous after all they done to Labour during the last General Election.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health minister, and a favourite
in the new leadership election of Labour, refused. He pointed out further that
if the Chancellor George Osborne will reduce disability benefit and tax credit
he will fight it all the way. He will refuse to agree to cuts which will hurt
many vulnerable people.
“If this Chancellor thinks it is acceptable to take
benefit off disabled people who can’t replace the income, or if he is coming
after the tax or other people on low income in work, then he is going to have
fight on his hand,” Burnham told Murnaghan of Sky News.
“It is questionable whether he has a mandate for
cuts on that scale because he didn’t spell out before the election where the cuts
were going to fall. That was wrong.”
Previously, Osborne and Cameron only commented on an
overall £12 billion Welfare cuts and the details they gave were “reduced
benefit cap, freeze most working age benefit for two years and take away
housing benefit for under 25s.”
This statement would not cover £12billion Welfare Cuts
and therefore there must be a lot more which they hide because they know it
would cause an uproar.
Cameron also promised not to touch benefits for the elderly
and child benefit but since so many of his promises were broken the real plan
of the Tories’£12billion Welfare Cuts has to be seen next months when the full
details supposed to be spelled out.
Despite the great attendance of the anti-austerity
protest march on Saturday all over the UK cities; Osborne and Ian Duncan Smith,
Work and Pension, published an article in the Sunday Times that they will go ahead
with £12billion Welfare Cuts as planned. They also urged Labour to work with
them alongside.
They said: “Even after the comprehensive rejection
of their position by the British people in the last month’s general election,
Labour seems determined to go on as before. But even now, appeal to their
leadership candidates to engage constructively with us and support the further saving
we must make to make welfare fairer and more affordable while protecting
pensioners and vulnerable.”
Wonderful words and so concerning as the Tories
always find them to trumpet them out to impress the public. But tell that to
the over 1,000 suicides and their families because they lost their disability
benefit or homes because of the Bedroom Tax or because ATOS forced them to find
a job, despite being disabled or have a fatal illnesses, when there is already high
unemployment.
Instead to cancel these extra investigation by Atos, contract £1million, when their lost the contract and ended up with a backlog of 700,000 cases where
disability benefit was cut and people receive no money, the government should have cancel it. Now they employ an American firm MAXIMUS which had been in court already
in the US for fraud and ill-treatment of disabled people.
Instead of cutting £12billion further in Welfare the
government should look into their own back yard.
Reduce the House of Lords form 840 each can charge a
£300 when attending and expenditure if they sitting late. They also refuse to join with the catering of
the House of Commons which might not be so extravagant but does not serve beans
of toast with cups tea only.
MoD wasted £6million on earplugs which are
useless. £50million of faulty or useless
equipment or bought in errors
Whitehall wasted £5billion in a year for errors, unused
equipment and compensation.
William Hague uses £2,000 a day taxpayers’ money to
have a luxurious apartment in London.
Tory MP Eric Pickles spend approximately £50,000 on
trip to China, private plane, exclusive Hotels; despite PM forbidden to travel
by First Class.
Osborne, himself the great saver, spent £43,000 on
Lawyers to stop to cap bank bonuses, while people are starving. The cap of
bonuses is 100 per cent of their salaries but at the moment can be over 200 per
cent.
MPs employ relatives and add further to their
already high salaries and expenditures. It amounts to a bill increased by 50
per cent in the last four years and it is now £3.8million. In 2010 it was
£2.4million when Labour was in power.
DWP cuts benefits but pays a £44million bonuses. A new computer system which supposed to do the reform automatically costing £500million but has never worked.
£19 trillion was siphoned off from the Treasury and
sent to a Tax haven, according to newspapers. The total is now £39trillion which is known.
Luxurious travels made by MPs in the last four years
cost £50million.
Ministry of Justice cost £29million in the last five
years on taxis, First Class train and flights
Westminster Officials spent £518,635 of tax payers'
money on procurement cards and has increase by £80,000 from the year before. Altogether
it is £1.8million during the last five years.
This bound to be only a part of the wasted taxpayers’
money and Chancellor George Osborne could save billions if he would bother to
look into it. The Prime Minister alone claims £20,000 per month for mortgage
even though he has a fortune of underestimated £30million.
Last year the MPs had a 10 per cent salary increase and
will have this year too despite austerity.
Austerity is nothing but a con and only applies to
the general public but the Chancellor should cut the above mentioned waste of
taxpayers' money.
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