Gloucester MP attacks lack of plan on benefits
A LACK of alternative proposals to the changes in the benefits system has been criticised by Gloucester MP Richard Graham in a parliamentary speech.
He said that Labour politicians had not come up with an alternative when it came to dealing with benefit restructuring.
He said: "It (Labour) has literally no plan for how much the benefits uprating should be to replace the Government's 2.2 per cent for carers and those with disabilities, and one per cent for certain child tax credits.
"Their idea of moral compassion was running up debts whose interest alone is more than the entire education budget.
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"It is an outrageous betrayal of the young in Gloucester who are ultimately paying the price."
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by Spud0
Wednesday, January 23 2013, 9:19AM
“This is a recycled story from yesterday when it first appeared on TiG, in the spirit of recycling I'll recycle my comments below and add it's the Tory's that are now letting down the young!
"Let's see, the Tory led government are sacking 5000 soldiers just as it's all kicking off in Africa the soldiers being dumped on the dole queue to face a job market with high unemployement, reduced benefits if they don't get a job, reduced access to health care as the NHS faces a funding and mis-managment crisis, chaos in the education system for their kids and....Of course the Tory's will say it's all somebody else's fault! And of course these problems effects everyone and not just the soldiers but this example shows how disconnected the government and MP Richard Graham is with reality.
Due to these failures and many others they hide, this Tory led coalition government are raising the debt to £600 billion, the same as Labour proposed. " A YouGov poll commissioned by Policy Exchange around the time of last year's budget finds that just 16 per cent realise that debt is going up." This is a fact Tory MP Mr Graham fails to mention, I wonder why?"”