Children whose parents queue outside food banks; housing association tenants willing to downsize – placed on 80% market rents without being informed; a cancer patient declared fit for work; a family of six told they must share a flat with one bedroom; a carer told the room she stores medical equipment in for her disabled husband is spare so she must pay the bedroom tax; multiple punitive Job Centre Plus sanctions imposed on jobseekers which are baseless or have genuine explanations; couple who worked all their lives made redundant and evicted, have to uproot and move out of London in the middle of their children’s exams because the council can only find temporary accommodation there; desperate people turning to legalised loan sharks to pay the heating bill. These are just a few examples of the types of cases I see on a weekly basis. But what really shocked me today was a photo posted on Twitter. It showed anti-homeless spikes installed on the floor by a firm to prevent homeless people sleeping in front of their premises.
On the other hand we have rich people being given generous tax breaks; the City is being protected from a transaction tax of 0.05%, while our NHS is being raped. And the so-called economic recovery is based on a fiscal policy of quantitative easing – a house of cards if you like. In all cases, without an exception, whichever country has resorted to similar fiscal policies have gone bankrupt, causing canyons between rich and poor, with dire consequences for those countries and their people.
This is the legacy of this Tory Government (propped by the Lib Dems) being bestowed upon the people of this nation. This is what the Tories don’t want you to know. This is why in 2015 there will be a Labour landslide victory.
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