Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy ``The Week``Correspondents report.
It`s Doom and Gloom..................but it is Spring.
Cameron is about to be reminded of an awkward truth.
He has enjoyed a good deal of support for his much-vaunted welfare reforms thanks to a widespread feeling and propaganda that the system had become too open to fraud and waste.
But just watch the mood turn when people see what his savage cuts do to the sick and unemployed.
On 1 April 280,000 disabled people and countless others suffering from cancer and various chronic diseases will have their benefits slashed as part of an effort to cut an ``unthinkable``£ 18 billion from the benefits bill.
Despite Cameron`s promise that he would ``never hurt disabled chilren``most of them will lose £ 27 a week.
``Expect heart-rending stories from the 25,000 young carers looking after disabled parents who lose £ 70 a
week.
Disability living allowances is to be cut by 20%,removing funds for transport and day centre fees at a time when council
social services are also being withdrawn.
These reforms have already had a rough ride through the Lords,but wait till the the voters wake up to them.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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whilst everyone wants to see the benefit cheats sorted
it's looking likely that a fair number of people struggling to get through life will be hit like cancer sufferers
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Brian Dixon
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so good p/r,having benifits cut on fools day,is this an early april fools joke.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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brian,
if iut was a joke maybe lots of people would be laughing
but no this is serious stuff
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The start of the end for a life on benefits being a career of choice for some.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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BARRYW'
I would love to think you are correct, but many we dont want to destroy will be like cancer sufferers
whilst less deserving cases will slip through the net
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this will be a real eye opener when it comes into force, the genuinely sick will suffer very badly.
i think there could well be a partial u turn.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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kieth,the whole idea is a joke.just hope the goverment will do a big u-turn on this ridiculace idea.
I am no apologist for this government and would be among the first to join a clamour against disadvantaging people least able to make a fuss, but it matters that we see alternatives. If something is cut, is there something planned to take its place? Are there alternatives to what is currently there? Most people with disabilities strive for independence, and there may be better ways to encourage that. Did you read about the elder woman with dementia who had to go to court to stop a local authority preventing her from going on a cruise holiday with her husband? Clearly we need to protect people but there are limits! How much better would a woman feel on a cruise holiday with her husband than stuck in a warehousing residential home with people telling her to sit down, and then ignoring her (sorry for the generalisation but that is life for many people).
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Leaked reports usually are.........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well i had a lot of time on this one issue for frank fields and ian duncan smith=but both watered down proposals but still hit the wrong people
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I would point out that we have not been shown the 'leaked report', but only a range of totally impartial (?) views on some of its contents by independent (?) commentators who obviously (?) have no axe to grind.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Good points well made........