Agenda 2019

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/think-tank-whose-work-george-osborne-based-new-living-wage-on-accuse-him-of-pushing-low-income-families-further-into-poverty-10379015.html   George Osborne pushing low income families further into poverty Chancellor George Osborne   What a difference a day makes. Yesterday morning, the television news and the media generally, were full of reports with headlines such as "Hooray! Its pay rises all round", "From welfare to work", "The well, fair state" and other equally meaningless nonsense, trying to convince the public what a great guy George Osborne was in producing a winning budget. Now, less than 24 hours later,Osborne's sleight of hand, has been exposed as nothing but an exercise in the use of smoke and mirrors to conceal the fact that this budget has made millions of people worse off, particularly those at the lower end of the income structure. No wonder that Iain Duncan-Smith ...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/watch-budget-2015-live-iain-duncan-performs-double-fist-pump-during-george-osbornes-budget-but-it-has-only-made-him-more-enemies-10375699.html Iain Duncan Smith has managed to make even more enemies after performing a double fist pump during the Budget. Iain Duncan-Smith The lasting image of this budget speech came not from Osborne, but from Iain Duncan-Smith, punching the air and clearly shouting "fantastic" and "yes,yes". The disgusting behaviour of a vile evil man, celebrating more punishment for the sick, unemployed, disabled and those on low pay who are having their tax credits cut, two years before a rise in their "minimum wage". Duncan-Smith. A nefarious maggot in a malevolent government.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/two-nations-13m-brits-will-spend-12bn-on-panic-saturday-but-13m-others-across-the-country-will-spend-this-christmas-in-poverty-9937088.html     13m will spend £1.2bn on 'Panic Saturday', but 13m others across the country will spend this Christmas in poverty          In the first quarter of the 21st Century, it is a scandal and a disgrace that 13 million people are, no matter what measurement you choose to employ in establishing that figure, living in poverty in this country today. Over 1 million families reliant on Food-banks and other charities, 1 million in child poverty, hundreds of thousands of people homeless, or in inadequate accommodation, many people actually in work who earn less than the minimum wage or are on zero hour contracts, having to claim benefits, which are being further reduced by government cuts, are indicative of a fractured nation....