Call it tough love, with the love removed: it’s Kemi’s war on benefits claimants
The Tory leader outlines her £36bn welfare cuts, again, to an audience of an age and a wealth that they don’t need to work Call it tough love.
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- Let’s face it, if a double amputee can run a marathon then it ought to be a doddle for a single amputee to run a double marathon.
But on a Tuesday morning it sticks in the throat to think of people lying around at home, being paid to have disabilities that exist mainly in their imaginations, while you have to give a speech in central London.
Welfare is very much a one-way balance sheet as far as Kemi Badenoch.
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- Now, MPs might just have enjoyed a five-day mini-recess, but they deserve every minute’s free time they get.
- There comes a time in every Conservative politician’s life when you have to say enough is enough.
- The thing is, we just haven’t been ambitious enough for people on welfare payments.
- Though try not to think of the cost to the NHS of the prosthetics.
- The point is that most disabled people just sit at home and moan.
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