The cuts had to be rewritten because the Chancellor of the Exchequer was innumerate, but that experience has chastened neither Rachel Reeves nor her minions. First Torsten Bell, and now Darren Jones. They even look the same as that sort in the Blair years. Callous, and dependent on the assumption that, "They're Labour, so they must be all right basically." They weren't then, and they're not now. Now as then, they are barefaced liars, this time claiming, for example, that PIP was devised "as a top-up to the health top-up to Universal Credit".
As for the rest of us, an extra £500 by 2029? Let joy be unconfined. But even that is only an average figure. It will not apply to every household. Not only are sums negligible to our overlords but catastrophic to those affected going to be taken away from the already most desperate, but a further quarter of a million people, including 50,000 children, are going to be pushed into poverty. Meaning that they will not be spending anything. When has austerity ever caused economic growth? That is not a rhetorical question. When, exactly, has it?
You've got their number.
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