£25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense

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Even The Sun, the ultimate scrounger bashers, thinks Steve Hilton’s latest idea is “daft”, writes Richard Darlington, head of news at the IPPR.

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Richard Darlington is head of news at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

Even The Sun, the ultimate scrounger bashers, thinks Steve Hilton’s latest idea is “daft”.

On page 2 today they quote a source close to Iain Duncan Smith saying the idea to cut another £25bn from the welfare bill is “absolute nonsense”, adding:

“Steve’s gone totally rogue.”

Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott says:

“This is wacky even by Hilton’s standards.”

But let’s take a moment to test the hypothesis. If you really did want to get £25bn cut from the welfare bill, how would you actually do it? Try and do-it-yourself.

Here are your options:

Breakdown-of-welfare-spending-2009-10

 

See also:

• Breaking down the benefits bill 21 Mar 2012

 

Even if you entirely scrapped all out of work benefits – jobseeker’s allowance, plus income support and ESA – you’d come up £4bn short. You’d have to almost halve the state pension – not really a vote winner. Or you could entirely scrap Child Tax Credit and Child Benefit or Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.

Like The Sun says, daft. Bye, bye Steve.

 

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41 Responses to “£25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense”

  1. Alan Cowan

    https://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/05/steve-hilton-welfare-cuts-plan-absolute-nonsense/comment-page-1/

  2. Richard C Renson

    Frm earlier: £25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense, writes @IPPR’s @RDarlo: http://t.co/tjEo7IqB

  3. S

    Frm earlier: £25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense, writes @IPPR’s @RDarlo: http://t.co/tjEo7IqB

  4. Ste'Softlad'Canlett

    Frm earlier: £25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense, writes @IPPR’s @RDarlo: http://t.co/tjEo7IqB

  5. Steph

    @leftfootfwd: £25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense http://t.co/1EId22Kv Unless they attack pensions, nothing left to cut!

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