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26th June 2013, 19:02
George Osborne unveils tough benefits curbs in £11.5bn spending cuts package (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/26/george-osborne-benefits-spending-review-cuts)
Lowlights:
George Osborne has unveiled a series of tough new welfare measures, including a seven-day wait before unemployed people can claim benefits, as he identified an extra £11.5bn in spending cuts for the first year after the 2015 general election.
The chancellor said the changes would save £350m in the year 2015-16, helping ensure Britain "lives within its means" as the economy recovers from its worst downturn in a generation.
"Live within its means"? Good grief I fucking hate that kind of shitty rhetoric. It's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how government budgets work, which isn't surprising coming from the current shower of shitheads and spivs.
Osborne told MPs in his 50-minute statement: "While recovery from such a deep recession can never be straightforward, Britain is moving out of intensive care, and from rescue to recovery."
What a load of Panglossian bullshit. The economy is still in the shitter and any growth has been anaemic, if it really exists at all.
The continuing austerity will lead to the loss of automatic pay rises for civil servants, the effective abolition, by introducing a temperature test, of winter fuel payments for British pensioners living abroad, and cuts across Whitehall that will see the communities and local government department's current spending budget cut by 10%.
More cuts, which don't fucking work.
There will be a new seven-day wait before people can claim benefits. "Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on," Osborne said.
Fuck you. How are people supposed to buy food and pay the bills if pricks like you insist they wait another seven days, on top of the fact that JSA is already paid a fortnight in arrears?
Lemme guess, they can get a loan from Mr Osborne's buddies at Wonga!
Under the changes, half of all jobseekers will have to attend their local jobcentre every week rather than once a fortnight.
What difference will this make when there are NOT ENOUGH JOBS?!
Benefit claimants who cannot speak English will lose their benefits if they refuse to attend a language course.
Racist pandering, fuck off!
The chancellor echoed the language of Gordon Brown as he mocked Ed Balls by saying: "I have had representations that we should include the basic state pension in the welfare cap. That would mean that a future government could offset a rise in working-age benefits by cutting the pensions of older people.
"That penalises those who have worked hard all their lives."
And making workers wait another 7 days to get money from something they've already paid into (that's why it's called National Insurance) is somehow not penalising workers? Fuck you.
Nearly everything I read about what the UK government says on these kind of topics makes me as angry as fuck. I'm glad I don't watch television anymore otherwise I think I might end up kicking the fucking screen in.
Lowlights:
George Osborne has unveiled a series of tough new welfare measures, including a seven-day wait before unemployed people can claim benefits, as he identified an extra £11.5bn in spending cuts for the first year after the 2015 general election.
The chancellor said the changes would save £350m in the year 2015-16, helping ensure Britain "lives within its means" as the economy recovers from its worst downturn in a generation.
"Live within its means"? Good grief I fucking hate that kind of shitty rhetoric. It's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how government budgets work, which isn't surprising coming from the current shower of shitheads and spivs.
Osborne told MPs in his 50-minute statement: "While recovery from such a deep recession can never be straightforward, Britain is moving out of intensive care, and from rescue to recovery."
What a load of Panglossian bullshit. The economy is still in the shitter and any growth has been anaemic, if it really exists at all.
The continuing austerity will lead to the loss of automatic pay rises for civil servants, the effective abolition, by introducing a temperature test, of winter fuel payments for British pensioners living abroad, and cuts across Whitehall that will see the communities and local government department's current spending budget cut by 10%.
More cuts, which don't fucking work.
There will be a new seven-day wait before people can claim benefits. "Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on," Osborne said.
Fuck you. How are people supposed to buy food and pay the bills if pricks like you insist they wait another seven days, on top of the fact that JSA is already paid a fortnight in arrears?
Lemme guess, they can get a loan from Mr Osborne's buddies at Wonga!
Under the changes, half of all jobseekers will have to attend their local jobcentre every week rather than once a fortnight.
What difference will this make when there are NOT ENOUGH JOBS?!
Benefit claimants who cannot speak English will lose their benefits if they refuse to attend a language course.
Racist pandering, fuck off!
The chancellor echoed the language of Gordon Brown as he mocked Ed Balls by saying: "I have had representations that we should include the basic state pension in the welfare cap. That would mean that a future government could offset a rise in working-age benefits by cutting the pensions of older people.
"That penalises those who have worked hard all their lives."
And making workers wait another 7 days to get money from something they've already paid into (that's why it's called National Insurance) is somehow not penalising workers? Fuck you.
Nearly everything I read about what the UK government says on these kind of topics makes me as angry as fuck. I'm glad I don't watch television anymore otherwise I think I might end up kicking the fucking screen in.