Conservatives £12bn tax cuts questioned

48 comments

1. Most of the increase in social welfare payments is due to long-COVID symptoms, that left c. 2.9 million people chronically ill up to 2 years after their initial Illness.

   Futhemrore, research in the UK found that 37% of people with long-COVD were unable to work and reported a loss of income. Another study, published in July 2022, found that 2.9 million working aged people had long-COVID symptoms, and an estimated 120,900 working-age people were left unable to work. Another 80,000 people left employment (early retirement). This represents c. £1 billion in direct extra social welfare and pension payments (not including dependants), and likely more, as the ONS figures published later in 2023 showed an increase in the number with long-COVID.

   Reuschke, D. and Houston, D., 2023. The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce. Applied Economics Letters, 30(18), pp.2510-2514.

2. So, once again, those least able to fight back (the disabled and elderly) are being financially squeezed in order to finance tax breaks. Colour me surprised (not).

3. Welfare cuts, while the middle class and above are rubbing their hands together in joy.
   Tories are ugly people, politicians and voters.

4. Anti Robin Hoods

5. What do they plan to do with PIP?😮

6. Classic Tory’s. Plunder the Poor, Ill & Disabled whilst their mates get richer.

7. i know how to save tax payers money first Reduce MP s pay to minimum wage , stop expenses , no tax fiddles that would wipe the smiles of their faces

8. Why don’t they cut their expenses first.

9. "Austerity for growth didn't work over a decade ago, but this time it will … promise."

10. Remember when David Cameron convinced you mugs you had to pay off the national deficit 😂😂😂

11. Amateurs

12. THe government has no money of its own. Very penny it gets is stolen.

13. Another reason not to vote conservative. The Green Party is for me. Becaus we need a real change not just promises that will disappear like dew when the Sun comes up. Let’s be fair to the rich and poor. The sick, the needy and the old should be the priority not giving taxes cuts.

14. That "yep" is crippling

15. When you equally don’t trust politicians or the media, so watching these fools go back and forth just feels silly since you don’t believe a word out of their mouths

16. So the government blames all it's failures on the pandemic . This suggests they never really had a workable recovery plan other than blame the poor . Typical Tory rhetoric 😮

17. Tories have already effectively chosen to kill 330,000 of the population through Austerity. 250,000 through Covid. They've obviously got the taste for blood. Don't look to Labour to be any better Starmer has filled his cabinet with Disabled Haters.

18. Tories: Can we imagine money. Of course we can after all we are tories😅😅

19. Mad… they made us ill with a virus an jab an now they want you to go back to work if your still buggered…

20. Who need experts.

21. What you think isn't a fact

22. You're getting sacked in the morning,

    Sacked in the morning,

    Saaaaaacked in the morning!

23. Lieing torie scum 😂😂

24. Liberal journalists

25. Isn't this the lady that didn't understand how debt to GDP worked ??

26. Britain is screwed.

27. They always go after the people who need help the most try cutting your expenses and wages and stop fiddling the expenses and the country might have money

28. Tories punching down again. Shameful scammers.

29. So pre inflation, evil

30. Evil taking more from people have little or just getting by . No wonder we are third world country

31. "What we are planning to do to pip".

32. Ask not what you can do to those on PIP, but what those on PIP can do to you

33. Typical Tories, blame the disabled and unemployed, and cut their benefits, despite the billions the big companies avoid in paying tax, and the billions they give in dodgy back hand contracts for mates or pay Rwanda for nothing.

34. They are so proud of making the poor poorer heartless bastards .

35. Pure evil

36. They don't need homework they make statement so it must be true!!

37. Never ever hear the Tories talk about increasing wealth tax, or reducing military spending. They're raging a Class War against the poorest in society. The are an antisocial party. Why do folks allow them to create social murder on a grand scale unhindered.

38. Lies

39. think we've all had enough of the Tories now ….that yep answer to the question said it all .

40. Rearranging the chairs on the titanic

41. It's impossible to take £12 billion out of welfare. it's just a fantasy number made up by the Conservative Party. Why do they hate the disabled and the mentally ill so much?

42. If they want to save £12 billion and more. Cut the £11 billion subsidies to the Railways, cut the £5.2 billion in subsidies for company cars, and i could go on. Why take it from the vulnerable?

43. Same ol' nasty party picking on society's weakest and poorest. Even their faces make me angry!

44. Laura Trott is a rubbish constituent MP.

45. Should have asked her how many zeros in 12B.

46. They want to spy on people's bank accounts who receive benefits, yet they won't bring in legislation to spy on the bank accounts of rich tax dodgers, Nadhim Zahawi is the prime example. Five million in his case alone.

47. Hey Conservatives. 👋
    Fash much?

48. Stop daily payments in house of lords they are not public elected that is welfare from taxpayers money,stop MPs expenses,they dont really need it,stop HC subsidies they dont need it,close offshore tax loopholes and that would just be a start….