“Vote For Us! We Despise You!” – @Conservatives at Conference was a Parade of Privilege - the real #scroungers !! The Conservative Party Conference ‘For Hardworking People’, promised to end the ‘something for nothing culture’. A quick look at those men and women delivering such nonsensical speeches belies a party of the privileged few, hectoring the struggling majority for suffering the effects of their own economic policies. The 2013 Conference will be remembered as a parade of privilege where a group of unworthy individuals said to the British public: “Vote for us! We Despise You!” Iain Duncan Smith – The Freeloader The Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions - DWP, Iain Duncan Smith adopted a withering tone for his speech. “Alongside what we have already done with the mandatory work programme and our tougher sanctions regime, this marks the end of the something-for-nothing culture,” he told the conference. It was revealed earlier this year that these programmes resulted in just one in ten users finding work. The figure for those finding work with no intervention at all is one in three. Therefore, the government has spent £5bn of public money to achieve results worse than doing nothing at all. Yet, rather than resigning in shame – he is heralding a success that does not exist and expanding the failed programmes. Meanwhile, disabled people face eviction over his #BedroomTax, his welfare cuts have seen homelessness rise 31% in England and 62% in London in recent years, and 10,600 sick and severely disabled people have died while undergoing ‘work capability assessments’ by Atos seeking to weed out purported benefit cheats. All this pain when just 0.7% of benefit claims are fraudulent, this is the DWP’s own figure. To put this in perspective, administrative error costs the department twice as much each year. In short, Duncan-Smith’s policies do not work, and his assertion of widespread fraudulent benefit abuse simply does not exist. He may, however, be projecting his own abuse of taxpayer money onto the tax paying public. Duncan-Smith lives rent free in a £2m country estate owned by his aristocratic father in law. Whilst claiming he could live happily on the £53 a week some unemployed job seekers receive, he has claimed £39 on expenses for his breakfast. In the Betsy Gate scandal of 2001, it was revealed that the tax payer was paying £15,000 a year for Duncan-Smith’s wife to become his ‘diary secretary’. There is ample evidence that Betsy didn’t perform any such role worthy of the salary, which was hardly likely to register in the bank accounts of the daughter of the moneyed 5th Baron Cottesloe of Swanbourne and Harwick. Duncan Smith currently costs the tax payer a #whopping £134, 565 in salary and expenses. It would not be unfair to suggest that Iain Duncan-Smith has fully availed himself of the financial support available from both the taxpayer and his patron father in law. Perhaps then it is small wonder that he does not recognise the culture of hard work for meagre reward faced by majority of the population. READ ON .................
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:35:28 +0000
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