Tag Archives: MP expenses
Why the Welfare Reform Bill Is Wrong
Today in Parliament MPs vote on the Welfare Reform Bill, which the House of Lords amended in some respects. The goal of the Tory government is to cut payments to people with disabilities and to their carers by 20%. I … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Healthcare, Housing, Poverty
How To Fix MP Expenses
MPs need to be able to do their jobs. They get paid a very substantial salary – even if the MP is the only employed adult in the household, even if they have four children under 13 and a huge … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Elections, Feng Shui Kitten Fixes Stuff, Poverty
Challenge Iain Duncan Smith
Iain Duncan Smith, today: “The question I’d ask these bishops is, over all these years, why have they sat back and watched people being placed in houses they cannot afford? It’s not a kindness. I would like to see their … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Healthcare, Human Rights, Poverty
Homes that they can only dream of…
The new welfare system takes for granted that all claimants are scroungers and cheats who need to be penalised. Political Scrapbook: The £1.1 billion cost of fraud (a modest 0.7% of the total benefits spend) averages out to £59 across … Continue reading
Chris Grayling recommends slave labour
Chris Grayling, Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell, is rather proud of the thousands of young people obliged to be shelf-stackers in Poundland and Tesco for no pay, in order to retain their JSA benefit: The Department for Work and … Continue reading
Filed under Poverty
What should MPs get paid?
According to this very reliable poll at LBC 97.3FM, mostly people feel that MPs should be paid less than what they now get. Contrast this to the question not asked, could you live on £67 a week? That’s what benefit … Continue reading
