19-03-2016, 01:13 AM
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Bye Bye IDS
Who'd have thought it????Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35848687
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has resigned over "indefensible" changes to disability benefits.
It comes amid mounting controversy over £4bn of planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP), expected to affect 640,000 people.
Mr Duncan Smith said the cuts were a "compromise too far" in a Budget that "benefits higher earning taxpayers".
Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "puzzled and disappointed" that Mr Duncan Smith had resigned.
Earlier, a government source indicated the changes were going to be "kicked into the long grass".
19-03-2016, 01:37 AM
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Re: Bye Bye IDS
Originally Posted by ruthio
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Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35848687
It says that there is at least one MP who has concerns for others rather than himself.
Of course, Dopey is 'puzzled and disappointed' at this news, but then he's a bit thick isn't he?
19-03-2016, 06:21 AM
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Re: Bye Bye IDS
Originally Posted by JBR
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You know what that says to me?It says that there is at least one MP who has concerns for others rather than himself.
Of course, Dopey is 'puzzled and disappointed' at this news, but then he's a bit thick isn't he?
Very well put JBR.
I must admit he surprised me, but all credit to him.
His letter makes it perfectly clear that the final straw was Osborne pulling the rabbit out of the hat about Capital Gains Tax Cuts on Budget day, something that he had kept very quiet.
I do think that it is unfair for Labour to criticise him in the way that they have, we need more people with a conscience in Parliament.
Cameron's letter in response is like a spoilt brat's," Mummy, that boy has been horrible to me."
It says far more about him than it does about Duncan Smith.
The fact remains that we are still spending far more than we earn, £70 billion this year and this money has to be found from somewhere.
This inevitably means tax rises as well as cuts.
It also means scrapping grandiose projects that we cannot afford, like HS2 and others.
It means efficiency in Central Government.
They could start by slaughtering the sacred cow which is the NHS.
This would mean demolishing the vast layers of bureaucracy that it has, bringing all catering, cleaning and maintenance contracts back inside the NHS and out of the hands of contractors, abolishing it's so called Internal Market and saving several £Billion by doing so.
The NHS could then get back to what it is supposed to be, a Health Service, not an out of control bureaucracy.
Dopey Dave will of course not do this, so we are where we are.
The alternative to Dopey Dave not getting a grip on things is that Corbyn gets in, and that would be a disaster.
His politics are the same as those of Greece, and look where they are, having to cut Pensions by 20%, a real basket case.
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