Post by tiddles on Feb 3, 2013 19:24:29 GMT 1
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My my, what a short memory Labour has, it was Blair and Brown who oversaw the benefits purge, THEY appointed ATOS and there would have been MUCH more to come. I can well remember St David Cairns banging on about, 'helping people back into work' and I recall Labour MPs going onto, 'Question Time' and other programmes to talk about the, 'huge' numbers of, 'benefit cheats' and how something had to be done. The fact that there was no tangible evidence to support the assertion that cheating was widespread or endemic.
And might I remind the MGN that Socialism is not all about red flags and worship of Joe Stalin, it is the political manifestation of a social conscience. It might piss off some of our readers but I'm proud to be a Socialist Nationalist and NOT a National Socialist, I'll leave that stance to Osborne, Blair and Clegg.
The Tories make shit look and smell appetising.
When our welfare state, our benefits and pensions system, built by the blood, sweat and sacrifice of our parents and grandparents, is under unprecedented attack from a pack of Eton-educated millionaires.
When lifeline payments to everyone from the unemployed to hard-pressed families to our pensioners are being chiselled and cut.
At times like this it sounds a little like class war. It feels a little like class war too and, right now, there is only one class winning.
The Government are using austerity to justify the dismantling of a benefits system that has been a crutch to our weakest and deserving for generations.
Now Osborne likes to talk of scroungers, of how we are either shirkers or strivers.
He’s no fool, despite what he looks like, and his spinners and focus groups tell him that he cannot bang on about benefit cheats enough. Voters love it, apparently.
Well, sometimes voters are dummies because while we’re getting into a lather about benefit thieves, this Government are gunning for all of us. For our benefits, for our pensions, for our granny’s winter fuel allowance.
When lifeline payments to everyone from the unemployed to hard-pressed families to our pensioners are being chiselled and cut.
At times like this it sounds a little like class war. It feels a little like class war too and, right now, there is only one class winning.
The Government are using austerity to justify the dismantling of a benefits system that has been a crutch to our weakest and deserving for generations.
Now Osborne likes to talk of scroungers, of how we are either shirkers or strivers.
He’s no fool, despite what he looks like, and his spinners and focus groups tell him that he cannot bang on about benefit cheats enough. Voters love it, apparently.
Well, sometimes voters are dummies because while we’re getting into a lather about benefit thieves, this Government are gunning for all of us. For our benefits, for our pensions, for our granny’s winter fuel allowance.
My my, what a short memory Labour has, it was Blair and Brown who oversaw the benefits purge, THEY appointed ATOS and there would have been MUCH more to come. I can well remember St David Cairns banging on about, 'helping people back into work' and I recall Labour MPs going onto, 'Question Time' and other programmes to talk about the, 'huge' numbers of, 'benefit cheats' and how something had to be done. The fact that there was no tangible evidence to support the assertion that cheating was widespread or endemic.
And might I remind the MGN that Socialism is not all about red flags and worship of Joe Stalin, it is the political manifestation of a social conscience. It might piss off some of our readers but I'm proud to be a Socialist Nationalist and NOT a National Socialist, I'll leave that stance to Osborne, Blair and Clegg.
The Tories make shit look and smell appetising.
