After last weeks’ Labour Spring statement, the news that the poor will be being made even poorer, seemingly for the sake of it, many people are fuming at the ‘Labour’ government.
One of the new reasons to get angry is that MPs are likely to cost through the disability benefit cuts without knowing the full impact.
The Department for Work and Pensions’ own impact assessment last week predicted that the cuts announced in the disability benefits green paper would drive at least 300,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children.
However, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was unable to say how effective those employment support measures would be when it published its assessment of the green paper last week, citing a lack of policy or analysis detail from the government and insufficient time.
Telegraph tragedy
But, what is the real problem, the problem that should shock the nation? Well, the Telegraph has nailed it, I’m sure you will agree.
“The British middle-class has been priced out of ski holidays.”
“Skiers will always ski, but in recent years an annual ski trip has become less and less affordable…” they write. Players going play…
Reactions
Here are a few reactions from the Meta post.
Some are genuinely fuming about the price of a good ski, some are more realistic about what really matters…
Let’s start with the selfish/bizarre ones…
1.
“Our country is sinking under the weight of grotesque taxation, levied to fund a non-working underclass of benefit maximisation professionals. Cut taxes enormously and let starvation motivate them to do some work. Until we do we will not see the middle class prosper.”
TBF this was one persons reposne…”spoken like the worst Telegraph subscriber in all of our imaginations.”
2.
“Benefits are worth more than potential wages for many, hence no incentive to work”
3.
“you need to earn over 150k a year if your single just to get by nowadays. The middle class has been wiped out. Your either poor or very wealthy there is no in between.”
4.
“…for those who grew up skiing, it is galling if they can’t afford to give their kids the same opportunities since the prices are now 10x.”
5.
“Yes first world problems!”
Random one…
“So why are there so many Chavs in France?”
Missing the point?
1.
“Alexa – How do I say “I’m a self-centred, sociopathic knob” without saying “I’m a self-centred, sociopathic knob”?”
2.
“twenty trillion pounds have gone from the public purse into offshore accounts since the 1980s. It’s not poor people who have stolen the money it’s the already wealthy.”
3.
“Nice to see the Telegraph, as ever, covering the real issues affecting society.”
4.
“A more accurate headline would be ‘Standard of living in UK has failed to keep up with that of other countries’”
5.
“Totally right. Sad state of affairs that only the rich and their children (Tarquin and Gemima (sorry)) can afford to ski going forward. Feel it’ll only get worse as the ski line gets higher and higher over the coming years.”
6.
“I’m gutted for them. It’s making my fortnight in Skegness look more desirable by the day.”
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