With the unrepentant mantra that we are all in this together, George Osborne used his speech to the Conservative Party conference yesterday to warn of further public spending cuts, including an additional £10 billion to be taken from the welfare budget.
With the unrepentant mantra that we are all in this together, George Osborne used his speech to the Conservative Party conference yesterday to warn of further public spending cuts, including an additional £10 billion to be taken from the welfare budget.
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It was clear the Chancellor's Liberal Democrat Coalition colleagues were among those not in on the policy proposals. He ruled out their favoured policy of a mansion tax on houses worth more than £2 million, ignored LibDem claims that further cuts to the welfare budget would have to be negotiated and floated two policy ideas likely to cause them considerable difficulty. These would exclude people under 25 from claiming housing benefit and curb child benefit for additional children born to people on benefits. Significantly, possibly because of the U-turns he was forced to perform on VAT on pasties, charity donations and the fuel duty increase, these concepts were posed as questions rather than policies. Is it fair that people in work have to consider the full financial costs of having a child, when those on benefits will receive an increase? Is it fair that young people who have never worked receive housing benefit for a flat when those in work have to live with their parents?
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Poverty in the Tories' policies
With the unrepentant mantra that we are all in this together, George Osborne used his speech to the Conservative Party conference yesterday to warn of further public spending cuts, including an additional £10 billion to be taken from the welfare budget.
It was clear the Chancellor's Liberal Democrat Coalition colleagues were among those not in on the policy proposals. He ruled out their favoured policy of a mansion tax on houses worth more than £2 million, ignored LibDem claims that further cuts to the welfare budget would have to be negotiated and floated two policy ideas likely to cause them considerable difficulty. These would exclude people under 25 from claiming housing benefit and curb child benefit for additional children born to people on benefits. Significantly, possibly because of the U-turns he was forced to perform on VAT on pasties, charity donations and the fuel duty increase, these concepts were posed as questions rather than policies. Is it fair that people in work have to consider the full financial costs of having a child, when those on benefits will receive an increase? Is it fair that young people who have never worked receive housing benefit for a flat when those in work have to live with their parents?
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