Politicians playing with our lives ....

[davidgillon]

 ... that's the only logic I can find for the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

The Guardian reports in this article that under Jeremy Hunt's proposed changes to disability benefit 370,000 disabled people will lose £5000 a year, but only 10,000 are expected to be able to find work as a result. On top of which there's a handy implicit demonising of all disabled people as benefit scrounging scum (which used to be the name of a friend's blog the Tories were indulging in it so often).

But the changes will only apply from April 2025, by which time the Conservatives will have been out of power for a minimum of six months.

The real object here isn't to force disabled people into destitution, though I've no doubt that will please plenty of Tories if it happens, it's to force Labour to either implement it, or axe it. If the implement it, they'll take tremendous flak from their own supporters, if they axe it, the Tory press will hound them for 'going easy on benefit scroungers'.

It's cynical to the point of being actively evil.

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[dewline]

I know of several provincial governments in Canada operating along similar lines.

[davidgillon]

Let me guess, Doug Ford runs one of them?

[dewline]

You've guessed correctly.