McFadden: Labour cannot ‘just write cheques’ to benefit claimants
Pat McFadden has declared that Labour must stop “simply writing a cheque” to benefit claimants...
More than eight million people are claiming Universal Credit, according to the Department for Work and Pensions, up by 830,000 in the space of a year.
Britain’s ballooning welfare bill is set to rise by £74bn in the next four years to reach £406bn by the end of the decade.
However, Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to cut the welfare bill by £5bn last summer prompted a backbench revolt by more than 100 Labour MPs. The Prime Minister was eventually forced to climb down on the measure and introduce a number of reviews instead...
Mr McFadden has privately complained about the attitude towards welfare in Labour ranks. The publication of the Mandelson files last month revealed that he had complained to the peer: “Every meeting I have is, ‘Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?’”
Some have said that McFadden would like to be Chancellor, but Andrew Burnham is just the chap to do less than nothing about this problem.
Expect to be poorer seems to be the message.
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Someone suggested the other day that proposed Labour policies make more sense if you replace the expression "working class" by "benefits class".
dearieme - that's a good substitution, more accurate too. I'll remember that one.
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