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Originally Posted by arista
"Their idea to reform welfare and benefits are right, the means they have used,in my opinion anyway, bring shame to any decency."
But Joey
I want to Know what is Labours Stand on this
as before the then Temp PM Brown was doing the same
until his minister stepped down, saying Brown must go
I look Forward to Labour saying if they would reform or do they want another Greece
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Therein lies the problem,you as ever make a good point as to Labours lack of foresight and leadership too.
Those who vote have little idea as to what Labour would do now in light of the welfare and benefit changes.
They really should have been making much more noise and opposition to things like this bedroom tax especially.
As I said,I agreed with welfare and benefit reform but my view is from all I have observed and learned from groups working in this field that real fraud and claiming of benefits not entitled to,is a minority not the massive number the media would have us believe there is.
I also agree with this Govts plan of only a 1% increase in benefit payments,it is the reforming and confusing,costly reforms which have led me to not support the measures put forward.
If I was an MP,I would have had to speak out against much of the benefit reforms in the form they have been legislated on.
As to Labour, they won't even say if they will support the 1% increase in benefits or not,they are going to have to start saying more and detailing their intentions soon definitiely.
Andy Burnham has said as to the NHS reforms being brought in, his first task if Labour win the next election will be to repeal as much of those reforms as is possible to do. That also to me is good because I cannot see how this Govt had any authority from the voters to do such a large top to bottom across the board reforming of the NHS either.
No plans for such were in either of the Coalition parties manifestos.
Of course I agree, this Govt came into a very bad situation,the deficit made so bad in part by Labours extra borrowing and measures to ease out of that then recession, I also realise though had Labour not gone down the path they did, then although the financial burden may have been better, likely unemployment would have gone the roof and there would have been more wasted lives and livelihoods for far longer, as to that much higher unemployment.
It is easy for me to criticise the Govt for this and that, largely I have supported what they have done so far,what they are doing to the NHS I don't though and also these changes to the benefits structure.
Targetting help to those at the lower end of the scale is right and also protecting the weakest,poorest and most vulnerable, these measures will do the exact opposite unfortunately.
Also,Ministers being allowed to demonise those on benefits too are a total disgrace in my view and all they do is fuel the media's witchhunt of fraudsters as to benefit.
Odd we hear of so few really despite them always looking for those stories.
I get mad at the likes of George Osborne, Chancellor. An important man in a responsible important post.
Harping on about people going to work and seeing curtains closed as to the houses of those on benefits.
What a disgraceful and likely inaccurate comment, I am a student, 4 of us are in this house, when we go to Uni or go out, we always close the curtains and blinds.
The couple in the next house to us, both work, they are out all day, they close all their blinds too when they are out.
I really get angry when Politicians say daft things just to get applause or think they are funny.
The Govt is failing as to all its targets, certain people in the UK,looked down on by some of the elite in Govt should not be made scapegoats though for this Govt and the previous ones failures.
Those are my issues with this Govt. Also Merry Kizzmas, I agree that in principle people with dementia are perhaps better with overseeing care such as warden controlled accommodation or other sheltered housing but it is the case that removing someone from an environment they have known all their lives is more likely to hasten the illness rather than help it.
If people can function independently,then the best means of care is to support them doing that in familiar surroundings with things they know and people and places they know and people who know them.
Financially penalising them to get them to be forced to make a decision to move elsewhere is not only wrong in my view, it is also inhuman.