Liz Truss: Working poor and disabled to fund her tax cuts for the rich.

Liz Truss's government refuses to commit to uprate benefits, both in work & out of work by the rate of inflation come April. So, despite her budget plans going down like a cup of cold sick, handing Labour record breaking poll leads and causing her own party to slide faster in the polls than a greased piglet on the run from Dodgy Dave, Liz Truss isn’t going to change tack on handing out massive tax cuts and other perks to bankers and other wealthy former higher rate tax payers. It doesn’t matter that the pound is bobbing up and down like a yo-yo, having gone up today, but only due to the actions of the Bank of England. No, Liz is going to try and balance the books and pay for this cash handout to the very wealthiest, by making the poorest workers and the disabled pay for it. Yes, despite the former administration agreeing to uprate benefits like Universal Credit and disability benefits, such as Personal Independence Payment and Employment and Support Allowance by the rate of inflation, currently floating at around 10%, though of course it does actually vary depending on circumstances, Kwasi Kwarteng is refusing to say he would continue to go along with that, provoking fears that again those with the least will take a financial hit – more austerity for the worst off – so that completely unnecessary handouts for the rich can be paid for. It's not like the rich spend it, they aren’t economically active, it’ll end up in a tax haven or some such and sit there doing nothing. Money has to move, has to work to boost the economy, to drive it, to make it work for all of society and that means putting more money in the pockets of those that will spend it. All this will do is drive even more people to foodbanks because those queues are not long enough already and with foodbanks already running out of food due to demand driven by the already severe cost of living crisis, more will have bare shelves and what then? 40% of Universal Credit claimants are in work and despite saying they’ll make work pay, actions like this from the Tories are proving it does not as support will be withdrawn too far and too fast by refusing to uprate benefits in line with the prices of everything around us that we need. We’re not talking holidays and cars here folks, we’re talking food, rent, clothing, warmth in the 6th richest country on Earth, driving millions into destitution, cold, hunger and death always follows. This is absolutely insane, abjectly avoidable cruelty and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng cannot be removed fast enough.