U.K. economic plan designed to avoid any moral compass

[tay]

Harry Leslie Smith writes (link is external) about the problems with a U.K. budget and economic plan designed to avoid any moral compass:

Nothing better illustrates to me that Osborne is sailing us back to the harsh and socially unsustainable cruelty of the 1930s than his removal of substantial benefits from over 200k disabled citizens (link is external) to pay for middle class tax relief. We cannot grow or sustain our middle class by starving our poorest members of society.

When he strips our most vulnerable of living a dignified existence through cuts to their benefits it doesn't make our economy stronger, it makes Britain a weaker nation because we have repudiated our greatest national asset: our belief in fair play.

No matter how much Osborne crows about saving the next generation from the vicissitudes of financial uncertainty, it won't happen through tax cuts or increasing the amount one can stash in an ISA, because the real threat to Britain's next generation is low wages and an economy that has become skewered to reward only our most affluent citizens.

 

[Angstrom]

this planet can't sustain unlimited weak humans. Let nature self sustain itself. It's part of the natural processes.

Moral compass is destroying this planet, because it puts human survival over everything else.

Only 1 out of 100 makes 90$+ a day on this planet.

 

[tay]

this planet can't sustain unlimited weak humans. Let nature self sustain itself. It's part of the natural processes.

Moral compass is destroying this planet, because it puts human survival over everything else.

Only 1 out of 100 makes 90$+ a day on this planet.

Nature is one thing, favouring the rich over the poor is simply unfair.

As we are seeing in England the budget will go after the 'weak humans' at the exspense of the rich and their tax breaks....

Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes

Iain Duncan Smith is understood to have told them that the government "can't keep taking money from the working poor.

He was concerned that his "narrative for welfare reforms was in danger of being thrown away." He felt he had no choice but to act because welfare reforms "matter more than anything".

Over the weekend Iain Duncan Smith discovered the Chancellor planned to offer cuts in Capital Gains Tax and was very unhappy that those tax cuts were to be offered to the better off, while he had been forced to make more welfare cuts prematurely, in his view. When Number 10 and the Treasury then backtracked on the reforms to PIP today, he concluded that he could no longer remain in government.

Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes - BBC News

 

[Blackleaf]

Child benefit payments to mothers should be scrapped.

There also needs to be greater checks on disability allowance because there are many people out there abusing the system, by either claiming to be disabled when they aren't or who are disabled but are still able to go out and work. There were a group of around six people in wheelchairs on a breakfast show this morning - all of them women, bar one, which doesn't surprise me - who were complaining about how the government has been cutting their disability benefits. And I'm thinking: "Surely you are able to go out and work. You may be in wheelchairs but you're perfectly capable, surely, of taking something like an office job."

IDS - who was leader of the Conservatives between 2001 and 2003 - has been a good Works and Pensions Secretary who has been incessantly and unfairly attacked by the British Left and the Daily Mirror; a British Left which thinks laziness and fecklessness should be rewarded. I'm not sure if IDS's replacement, Stephen Crabb (the first Tory Cabinet minister to have a beard since 1905), will be as good.

Another thing about IDS's resignation is that he is a member of the Leave campaign in the EU referendum and he's probably hoping - maybe rightly - that his resignation will be a boost to the Leave campaign. IDS is no great fan of Cameron or the Chancellor George Osborne - both of whom are pro-EU - and Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann has alleged that IDS's resignation was designed to cause “maximum damage” to the pro-EU Tory leadership and further the Brexit campaign.