[QUOTE=Tempest II;63669713. Politics should be seen by those in it as public service and a duty for the greater good of the UK and its citizens, not as a way to feather your own nest.
So the greater good is cutting money to the vulnerable? And stupidly cutting funding to things that help people find work which costs them more money in the long term?
You mean the figures when they don't bother to cut their expenses then act like the poor are scroungers?
No they don't need to spend as much money as long as its spent on a efficient service which it isn't, the DWP is a nightmare to deal with and instead of punishing the real scroungers they target the easily santioned who are people who can't defend themselves be it due to bad education opportunities (which the government were a part of due to funding) cutbacks in things like social work for the vulnerable.
If instead of such greed/handshaking between friends they had a proper work experience programme instead of shoving unpaid workers into Tory supporters laps people would be more sympathetic.
I think in reality more should be done to stop rouge landlords charging massive rents/buying up ex council properties for huge rents meaning tenants have to get high benefits to cover the rent especially in London that way higher benefits werent needed than cutting benefits then saying "well you get too much"
When I grew up the tories were in power, my parents went without food to feed me and my brother, rotten floorboards and mouldy walls, where was the help from the Tories? They just want to poor to live in squalor so they don't pay a penny (and get cheap staff as they are desperate)
Where I grew up there was a huge shortage of work, even 20 or more years ago people were travelling to the nearest city 60 miles away or the nearest large town 40 miles away as factories were closing but at least local businesses had it ok and a few large employers about giving high wages if you were lucky enough.
So even then unemployment was high, since then all but one local large employer has closed (and the one left hires only foreign labour from 20 miles away) but according to statistics unemployment has FALLEN, how can that be true? Is it because people are on zero hour contracts?