Minister admits he couldn’t live on £70 a week as he defends benefit cuts

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/minister-admits-he-couldnt-live-on-70-a-week-disability-benefit-mfs7kzbm2

by corbynista2029

11 comments

  1. 1.75m on unemployment does not go into 800k vacancies. Soon to be more when they screw disabled people.

    So they say its not enough to live off and its an incentive to get into work but what if there are no vacancies?

    Just suffer I guess.

  3. People wont have to live off £70 a week though, because there are other benefit payments they can claim.

    He literraly explained that it the interview, but trust thetimes to be desperate to blame labour for everything and everything.

    Remind me, how long have labour been in power?
    And how long were the previous party in power for?

  5. Most people on benefits don’t live on £70 a week. Pointless article.

    If someone is only getting £70 a week they are likely a person with no job, no disabilities, no children and living with family.

  6. Assuming rent and council tax are also paid for (if you’re entitled to benefits then they usually are), I agree £300 per month would be quite difficult to live on.

    However I think I could just about manage it myself, but only because I share bills with a partner. I’d have about £200 left after bills for food and transport.

    God help the single people. That £200 figure would be cut in half and I don’t think I could manage on that.

  7. The entire appearance was really odd. I don’t think he came across well at all.

  8. I don’t see why a so called “labour” party doesn’t understand that the root of all these issues is wages.

    We have an inflated benefits budget because people who go to work rely on benefits. Why? Why are we subsidising people’s wages instead of making that the employer’s responsibility?

    Get working people off benefits and give working people decent wages. I don’t care if you are a brain surgeon or a McDonald’s worker if you get your arse out of bed in the morning and go to work and contribute to society you deserve to have a decent standard of living and big companies like McDonalds and Amazon etc certainly make enough profit to satisfy that. We are still one of the largest economies in the world so there’s no excuses for piss poor wages. The people at the top need to take the hit for once but labour are too cowardly to do that.

    Focus on getting the average workers standard of living up and then the public will be on board with the benefits system. Why do the public resent those on benefits? Because most people work to earn a fucking pittance that barely covers their bills while they see people on benefits (whether they deserve it or not is not for me to decide) getting it all paid without having to go to work. Of course people are gonna be resentful.

    The problem isn’t benefits. The problem is shit wages. The sooner we sort that out the sooner we can actually take benefits seriously.

    It’s really not fucking rocket science but the government don’t have the minerals.

  11. The thing about this kind of thing: the public are generally indifferent to the policy but not to the consequences. This is because most people are not in that situation and just tend to believe the media rhetoric.

    Even tru-blue Tory voters condemn such cruelty when the reality hits, in the case of non-Tory voters it’s basically an unknown because Labour have not behaved like this so obviously in the past.

    We shall see but I think it’ll be a spectacular, majority-losing crushing condemnation.

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