Category: Social Justice
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Food Poverty – The Tories Toxic Legacy of the 21st Century
Food poverty has reached crisis point in this country since the Conservatives won the elections in 2010. They abolished previous Labour policies that helped bring millions of children and families out of poverty. The Tories used the financial crash of 2008 to put the blame and target people claiming unemployment benefits and in-work benefits. Their…
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Universal Credit- A Tory Disgrace
It’s appalling after over 6 years Lord Duncan Smith who initiated the changes to the benefit system has gone scot free after managing and presiding over the worst change in UK benefits history and a huge loss to the public exchequer. Millions have so far been written off due to massive IT problems with trying…