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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Yes that is true, however get a scandal story of an MP or celebrity and that will be discussed at length on the day with likely interview of this person and that person as to the events.
Not only on the day it is revealed and for days afterwards too.

This scandal of making cuts to likely large numbers of the sick,disabled and most vulnerable of peoples benefits,gets very little attention.
I struggled to find much of it yesterday,very little as to talking to the organisers of the marches across the UK as well,not just in the capital London.

I think this govt is wrong to pursue this policy of so much cutting so quickly too,thankfully, I know there are Conservative MPs who are a little dismayed this is being brought into play so soon and with such determination to stick to the 12 billion figure of cuts too.
I hope they will find their conscience and help vote this down as much as they can or back amendments to the legislation.

I hoped with a small overall majority and less than 37% of the vote, the Conservatives would in some humility, accept this may be a step too far, clearly Osborne is now going to support the rotten plans of Ian Duncan Smith again who it seems has won the day on these cuts again.

I was prepared to hope for better and give this govt the chance to amend its hardline as to these cuts for the most vulnerable.
If they go ahead and get them through parliament, which is not certain by any means,however if they do implement them as stated, then I really hope they get strongly slung out next time.

I saw the devastation the last round of severe cuts brought to people really ill,people with incurable illnesses, terminal illnesses, people losing benefits who had cancer even.
The absolute cruelty to those losing benefits who were mentally ill was and should be a National disgrace.

I don't, and some Conservative MPs don't either, believe George Osborne wanted to go ahead with these vile and more severe cuts again in full but it is Ian Duncan Smith,who it seems is getting his way again.

Before they start making cuts, they should be looking at the disastrous change from DLA to PIP, where people are having to wait anything from 6 months to much longer just to be told if they are getting it or will be moved to it.
Sort that mess out first,because all I can see from these cuts again is more being spent on implementing same, and then paying back backdated benefits as those affected eventually ,after almost a year, win their appeals on same too.

This is what the marchers should be highlighting and it is what the media also should be learning from the marchers too, and not always just accept that these things have to be done to clear a deficit.

A deficit that needs to be cleared but it does not and never has needed to be cleared in a period of 5 to 10 years.
There could have been modest plans to bring down the deficit year on year,not by severe cuts but by growth and let the deficit fizzle out over a period of 15 to 20 years and then not needing to inflict great problems and cruel cuts to sick and disabled people.
People who any govt of any party, actually should be protecting not cruelly making life harder for.

That is what we should be hearing from all media as to such marches,not the scant mention they have given it both yesterday and today.

Ian Duncan Smith, is wrong,sadly this PM backs him despite David Cameron's words of wanting more compassion after the election.
I would not have Ian Duncan Smith cleaning a toilet,never mind let him loose to decide the incomes and rules for people in the UK who are sick,disabled and most vulnerable.

He really must have something on David Cameron to have presided over such chaos the last 5 years as to Universal Credit,the change to ESA and the appeals he has lost and then DLA to PIP too and the cruel delays of even getting the decision of a PIP claim.
Then after all that chaos plus the bedroom charge, which has likely cost the govt more to do than what it has saved,he remains in his job as work and pensions secretary.

I hoped for better,glad I didn't expect it,it is why I could not support this lot,it seems despite all the wording of more understanding in Cameron's speeches, that they are sadly just empty words from him.
All that is coming, is the same vindictive policies against the weakest in society again,which has been there for the last 5 years now and policieswhat we were told in 2010, would in fact be all over now.
Now it seems,wrongly in my view, another 4 to 5 years of the same and maybe even worse again.

I hope many more marches take place against these cuts once they come before Parliament and I hope many more people get behind them and support the moves against such cuts.
I will for sure be on any march against this govt as to these cuts.
I think the cuts they are planning again this time,are inhumane and should have no place in any so called decent society.