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Reasons to Vote Labour

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REASON 8<br />

THE BENEFITS CAP<br />

In November 2016 the conservative government reduced the level of<br />

capped benefits (as originally introduced by their former chancellor, George<br />

Osborne, in 2010) from £26000 <strong>to</strong> just £20000 (outside London).<br />

Many families found themselves £115 per week worse off from November -<br />

remember these are not well-off families with disposable income.<br />

So far the benefits cap has affected around 70000 families (note this is<br />

families - i.e. we are taking of some hundreds of thousands of people with the<br />

bulk being children).<br />

The <strong>to</strong>ry excuse (other than of course the nonsense of austerity) is that they<br />

want <strong>to</strong> encourage people back in <strong>to</strong> work etc etc. I prefer not <strong>to</strong> swear<br />

(online or offline) but a famous American abstract artist famous for dribbling<br />

and splashing paint over canvasses comes <strong>to</strong> mind!<br />

This is nothing less than another attack by the strongest on the weakest<br />

under the cloak of a supposed fairness and support of hard working families<br />

etc. - I'm seeing those paintings again!<br />

S<strong>to</strong>p the <strong>to</strong>ries from blaming the poorest for the government's rapidly<br />

expanding debt and place the blame where it belongs - with the conservative<br />

government which works for the few at the cost of the many.<br />

VOTE LABOUR TO STOP THIS INIQUITOUS ATTACK ON<br />

THE LEAST WELL OFF FAMILIES IN OUR COUNTRY.<br />

LABOUR - FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW.

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