I cannot articulate the fury I feel at an MP comparing benefits cuts for disabled people to cutting 10 quid from their kid's pocket money and asking them to get a Saturday job.
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Once highlighted as a rising star, Jones used detraction, patronisation, failure to answer the question and acting as though realistic scenarios are somehow ‘hypothetical’. It was honestly like going back to the dark days of Tory ministerial interviews. No different.
Too fucking right. I know it was 25 years ago and all, but if my pocket money had been cut by £10 a week, I'd have been paying my parents £8 every Saturday.
Is it a glimpse at how the political class see the rest of us small moment of honesty? We are not citizens with rights we are at most units of production, and if you are a suboptimal unit of production well…..
Good gods. What kind of never-to-be-sufficiently-damned *idiot* would say something like that?
I'm absolutely furious, too. Obviously, it doesn't affect me personally, but it displays an attitude, especially from a party that's supposed to *help* people, that's, well, physically revolting to me.
At least with the Tories you knew they were likely to try to shaft you, but you also knew that they were equally likely to be too incompetent to fully manage it
In Osborne's time there was often a strong feeling that Tories didn't grasp the concept of having no money and genuinely couldn't see why poor people didn't just dip into their trust fund. I honestly expected a little better - not much, but a little - from these people.
We have a similar problem in Florida, USA, where the Governor literally ran off all immigrant labor & now wants to cut protections for child labor. Florida has a terrible reputation for child labor violations.
"Since becoming an MP I've been offered thousands of pounds for just a few hours work a week by banks, hedge funds and water companies. I can't see why everybody else in the country can't do this".
I mean it was a pretty good analogy in the sense that it's about as realistic as expecting a 7-year-old to go get a job and is being dictated by someone well-off enough that they can talk about cutting their kids pocket money by £10 a week like it's some kind of minor adjustment.
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So that's alright then...
I kind of half expected that from him after his TV performances since the elections.
Bristol got shafted electing him.
I'm absolutely furious, too. Obviously, it doesn't affect me personally, but it displays an attitude, especially from a party that's supposed to *help* people, that's, well, physically revolting to me.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/12/labour-benefits-tories-labour-rachel-reeves-welfare
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