Friday, 7 December 2012

We're all in this together and other nonsense

Lord Snooty Cameron and his millionaire Tory and Liberal chums keep trotting out the  slogan 'We're all in this together'  in a desperate bid to convince us that the rich are being hit as much as the poor under the cuts.

What utter rubbish.  Let's look at some facts

  • According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies the poorest 30% of households have borne the brunt of the measures introduced by George Osborne.
  •  Families with children have been hit the hardest of all with a one earner couple with two children losing £534 a year on average by the end of this Parliament
  • A couple out of work with no children has lost 11 per cent of their income
  • The richest 10 per cent of households have lost £8.00 a week which represents 0.48 per cent of their income.
  • More than half a million disabled people will lose up to £400 over the course of the next three years. Baroness Grey Thompson, the Paralympic gold medallist and disability campaigner has recently said 'The people who can least afford appear to be getting hit again'

Isn't it about time this coalition run by millionaires consigned this nonsense to the dustbin of history together with the other failed idea of the Big Society?

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