The persecution of single mothers as a source of the nations ills still has consequences.
Scapegoating the disabled as scroungers is no different from what the *** were doing in Germany before the war. We normally associate this with Jewish persecution, but the targets included gypsies, people with mental health problems, many disabilitiles,homosexuals and leading churchmen.
What is being done at the momnent is playing on public anxiety about the recession and all the cuts, by identifying in the public mind the notion that there are people apparently getting benefits rather than working through unjustifiable claims they are disabled.
There may be people claiming benefits on the grounds of disability who are also working, and therefore fraudulently claiming benefits. There may also be people with large families claiming dishonestly that all their members are disabled. Equally there are people with large families who do have lots of children with disabilities.
The majority of people claiming benefits because their disability prevents them working cost nothing like as much as all those companies dodging tax.
This government is playing on public anxiety about financial vulnerability by targeting vulnerable groups, to distract people's attention from lots of other untenable activities, like huge pay rises and bonus payments to fat cats, and massive tax dodges that they wont act on.
27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day. It is primarily about the systemmatic racial cleansing of the Jews before and during the last World War. But it also asks us to think about recent and present day atrocities around the world.
And - while much less serious issues - it asks us to think about other kinds of scapegoating. While just taking away benefits from disabled people might seem a small matter, it invokes the same mentality.
The Government is playing on public anxiety to justify persecuting a vulnerable minority.
Once you start allowing this sort of thing to happen, you have to ask yourself the question: "Who's next?"
"Austerity" has been nothing but an excuse for right wing elites to adopt failed ideology so as to punish the underlasses. Theres no shread of evidance to show it helps, and ireperable harm is done to many as they try. There was one single paper that showed advantages to the policy... which just last yearwas found to be so riddled with flaws, bad math, cherry picked data, strained interpretations, that it could have been used to win the one ring from Gollum.
Osborne has one move, cut.
What is worse though is that Labour are silent on the matter, and the lib dems even worse.
I feel so scared, so weak so powerless about all thsi I had to stop watching the news, I mean they can demonise me and those like me in the press day on day without being chalenged, can destroy my life with a stroke of a pen and, we can do, what exactly?
Typical......as with everything else they do, they don't govern, they just play around at ill-informed meddling.
We are still suffering from the "absent father's" payment scheme, triggered by a rant about single mothers years ago.
Now their ghastly social reforms are in trouble. We'll suffer from that for decades to come.
Then there's the mess they are making of education, with so many interferences teachers are now giving up and looking for alternative professions. And the health service......
And all this talk of pulling us out of recession with all the money they waste on ill-thought out reforms counteracting the effects.
When are we going to learn that public schoolboys don't make for good government?
