UK Budget 2015 - "ESA cuts considered"

[sarah darwins]

So, they went ahead and did it, but I think this will get watered down. When even the 'official newsletter of the Tory party' is carrying critical editorial, you know the government has got it wrong:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12197202/Targeting-disabled-people-is-woeful-politics.html

Sometimes you can only shake your head at the sheer stupidity of politicians, so stuck in their Westminster bubble that they make the most obvious mistakes. For it is hard to think of a worse message to offer the country than the one sent by the Government this week. Forget the froth over the sugar tax. The lasting impression of Wednesday’s Budget is a Chancellor making hefty savings by hitting people with serious disabilities while handing tax cuts to prosperous professionals.

Even some of their own MPs are turning on them over this.

 

[worldbackwards]

The tide is finally turning on disability. About bloody time too.

 

[worldbackwards]

Aaaaaaaand....IDS resigns!

Plenty of self serving twaddle there. But don't expect anything good to happen: Osborne's been driving the cuts and he'll put his man in now.