Unfit To Govern

The Institute of Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) research for the End Child Poverty campaign found the Budget will hit families with children hardest and that poorest families will lose the most.

There are two striking pictures in the IFS report. The first is a bar chart that illustrates the tax and benefit reforms introduced by Labour before May: they hit the better-off harder and harder all the way up to the richest 10%. That is what we typically describe as progressive reforms. The second graph shows the effects of Mr Osborne’s inaugural budget – and it shows that the poorer you are, the poorer you will get under this new government.

The Government’s feeble response is that it doesn’t take account of economic growth and getting people off benefit and into jobs.  What jobs? Where exactly are these jobs going to come from when unemployment is bound to rise as a result of the spending cuts?

Nick Clegg, when are you and your party going to stop burying your head in the sand?  You have been well and truly conned by your Conservative Tory partners in backing Osborne’s budget and other measures which go against the the core of the Liberal Democrat values. Get out now before the damage is permanent.

So, in the light of the IFS report, is the government incompetent or hiding the truth.  I suggest both; incompetent for engaging in austerity measures which will affect the most vulnerable in our society most whilst plunging our economy back into recession and now they have been found out are in denial hiding the truth.

Further Reading; Telegraph, Guardian, Taking From The Poor, Politics.co.uk