Benefit Cheats.

Very soon (within the next year) people who are now receiving Incapacity Benefit because they cannot work due to chronic disease or injury will cease to receive it in entirety if they have a partner who is working. It will simply stop. They will lose it all. 

Of course everyone who is receiving Incapacity Benefit (IB) and especially Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is, so government propaganda goes, a 'Benefit Cheat' and/or 'Dole Scrounger'. This when the governments own figures show that just 0.05% of claimants are that and are claiming fraudulently. By their own research and statistical analysis they prove their own propaganda wrong, but hey, why let truth intervene in a crusade to pay the bankers bills (brought about by the upper echelons of society) out of the pockets of the poor and needy who never came anywhere near to causing the 'problem' in the first place? It's obviously better to bleed those at the bottom when the cancer is actually at the top.

Someone relying on their IB to live will, in many instances, have their incomes cut by up to £99.15p per week. Those who give over their DLA so that they can have specially adapted vehicles to get around will have zero income apart from their partners wage. How many ordinary working class people could afford to take a pay cut of approximately £400 per month or £4,800 per annum? But then again they are Benefit Cheats anyway aren't they? Just more undeserving poor. Burdens to society so they deserve this - well don't they? This measure will save about £4 Billion per year and push disabled people and their families in to abject poverty. 

Uncollected corporate taxes and tax havens for the rich cost the exchequer  £42 Billion (2010/2011). But then again, according to the propaganda the one group deserves their poverty whilst the other deserve their wealth. Those who evade taxes in tax havens set up in and by the City of London or pay their corporate taxes at hugely discounted rates after a private deal quietly struck with senior staff of HMRI over a rather expensive four course luncheon to include a bottle or two of £150 claret are immune of course. Those who are disabled through no fault of their own are not it seems.


"In order to succeed the poor need most of all the spur of their poverty."

A quote from that wonderful doyen of the Tory right George Gilder, (1981, p. 118)