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Happy New Year from the Chancellor: George Osborne targets working-age poor again as he insists Britain must make £25bn more welfare cuts in 2014
Half the cuts to come from the welfare budget
George Osborne was accused of targeting the poor and vulnerable and sparing the rich as he outlined £25bn of new spending cuts, with half of them coming from the welfare budget.
The Chancellor kicked off the political year with a bleak warning that the job of clearing the deficit is "not even half done." But his suggestion of £12bn of welfare cuts in the two years after the 2015 election provoked an angry backlash from the Liberal Democrats and pressure groups.
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, accused Mr Osborne of launching an "unrealistic, unfair" attack on the poor while demanding no sacrifices from the wealthy. He told his monthly press conference: "You've got a Conservative Party now who are driven, it seems to me, by two very clear ideological impulses. One is to remorselessly pare back the state - for ideological reasons. Secondly - and I think they are making a monumental mistake in doing so - they say the only section in society which will bear the burden of further fiscal consolidation are the working-age poor."
Mr Clegg added: "You've got an agenda on the right which appears to believe in cuts for cuts' sake, and an agenda on the left which believes in spending for spending's sake."
Full story Independent.
Bob Whysman
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Being a non political animal I thought it was to confirm that the Panto season was still in full swing and they had rewritten Cinderella!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Then whose fault is it that the general public have this (incorrect) view/perception ?
I must be honest, I find it difficult to believe that only 0.7% of the welfare budget is claimed fraudulently.
I wouldn't have called it Tory brain-washing, I'm sure these misconceptions (if that's what they are) have been held for years, not just the last 2.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
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never the less your admitting they are held roger
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The slagging off of people on Benefit has been marketed so successfully and constantly to prepare everyone
for the IDS policies.
It has been successfully indoctrinated in every level of society so much so people like Roger do not believe it
or choose not to believe it.
We have had the `few` and others on this Forum when told the benefit fraud is less than 1% responding
with........``Our taxes are being spent on the benefit scroungers so they can enjoy boozing smoking,50 inch flat TV`s
mobile phones,laying in bed whilst their neighbours go to work.designer clothes etc,etc
Truth is never popular or sounds clever.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The slagging off of people on Benefit has been marketed so successfully - by Labour too, Reg.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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for the second time on this thread roger i welcome your view that the tories slag off those on benefits thankyou
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The Tories do not slag off people on benefits Keith: only idlers.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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round and round you go roger
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 70....Pinocchio.!............feeling diplomatic.............
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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governments have always liked to divide and rule, benefit claimants are the latest to be used as pawns in the game.
takes people's minds of the power brokers that run the country.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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true
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
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where is Angela Merkel?? LOL
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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In accident and emergency last time i heard heike.
we all wish her a slow recovery.
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
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cheeky, where is the english Gentlemen?
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Brian Dixon
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he is the one with the head scarf.
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Met police want water cannon ready to use in Britain by summer
Theresa May has rejected a request for government funds to buy water cannon, letter to Boris Johnson reveals
Boris Johnson wrote to Theresa May about water cannon this week: 'I am aware you have declined to make funds available.' Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images
Britain's biggest police force wants water cannon ready to be used on the streets of mainland Britain by this summer, official letters reveal.
The documents also show that a request for the government to fund the controversial purchase has been rejected by the home secretary, Theresa May.
Public consultations on the deployment of water cannon will begin within weeks and a formal decision made next month.
Water cannon have not previously been available to police on mainland Britain, and their use has been limited to Northern Ireland.
In a letter sent on Monday by Boris Johnson to May, the London mayor explains his reasoning, saying it is a direct result of the 2011 riots that started in London before spreading, becoming the most serious and widespread riots to hit England in decades.
