Continuing the conservative’s persecution of societies most vulnerable is hardly the best way to win an election is it?
Your string of announcements confirmed that you and the Labour party are in league with the government. You would rather pander to the right wing in order to get votes, rather than support and work for the ordinary, the disabled and most importantly the poverty stricken.
You say that you will guarantee jobs for the under 25’s and the long term unemployed. I’m curious as to how you’re going to do this when there are so few jobs right now.
You say you’re going to GUARANTEE jobs. How? Are these jobs going to pay a living wage? Are they going to be permanent, full time jobs? Are you going to abolish zero hour contracts and all slave labour programmes? How are you going to do this? How long is it going to take to create all these jobs? Are they going to happen overnight by magic? Jobs don’t just appear because you say they will, or because you issue vague, jargon saturated buzz phrases.
You say that people will be sanctioned if they refuse the job. What are those sanctions going to be based on? If the job is too far away, are they going to be sanctioned? Or are you expecting people to uproot their lives and move? Are you going to pay for deposits and rent in advance? Are you going to pay for removal vans?
You are continuing the Tory spin by perpetuating the myth that benefit fraud is what is costing this county money. Despite what the government and media would have us believe, this country ISN’T infested with people claiming £60,000 in benefits. Benefits are capped. It’s physically impossible too claim that amount. Not everyone on benefits have massive TVs. Fraud does not cost what people are claiming. It does not cost 27% it costs 0.7%. Pensions, departmental errors, unclaimed benefits and Atos appeals cost far more than benefit fraud. Tax evasion costs far more than benefit fraud.
Stop trying to blame the poor and stop working with the tories. Staying that you’re going to repeal the bedroom tax isn’t enough. Because right now you don’t have my vote.
P.S How about canceling Atos’s contract and employ doctors to assess cases rather than physiotherapists?
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