Comments on: The IFS confirms it: the worst Tory cuts REALLY ARE still to come https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706147 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:35:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706147 In reply to Mike Stallard.

What, that inflation is too high for you on 0.3%? How much deflation do we need, again?

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By: Mike Stallard https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706119 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:30:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706119 In reply to Mason Dixon, Autistic.

Grovelling apology for the typo! 54 billion is the figure.
Please do note how it compared with education (50%), defence, transport and welfare.
My argument still holds despite the typo!

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706109 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:05:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706109 In reply to Samuel Hooper.

You’re frustrated at what? The wide choice of parties to vote for? Cameron is well to the right of Thatcher. Your problem is that austerity, your right’s chosen weapon, is expensive.

Your “Fiscal responsibility” is why the debt’s rising as it is in the first place.

And Labour are not leftist, they’re another option for the right!

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By: Samuel Hooper https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706084 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:00:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706084 Two things:

1. Since Ed Balls has revealed he would not reverse ANY of George Osborne’s Budget 2015 spending decisions, when can conservatives expect an apology from the Labour Party and its supporters for all those accusations of cruelty, callousness and selfishness over the past 5 years?

http://semipartisansam.com/2015/03/20/with-the-2015-budget-its-finally-time-for-labour-to-put-up-or-shut-up/

2. If anything, George Osborne’s timid budget shows the extent to which British conservatism is still on the back foot since Thatcher’s heyday. Under David Cameron, the Tories are doing hardly anything to actually shrink the size of the state, and yet they feel compelled to grovel and apologise for each small gesture they make toward fiscal responsibility:

http://semipartisansam.com/2015/03/20/why-george-osbornes-2015-budget-was-such-a-disappointment/

If those on the left are unhappy, they should take heart – we on the right are just as frustrated.

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By: littleoddsandpieces https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706073 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 03:17:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706073 …As for the cost of living, average incomes among pensioners have risen, the IFS says, but among those of working age they have fallen. …

Rubbish.

Inflation for pensoners has gone up 8 per cent this year, whereas for all others only 0.5 per cent.

And the working age now is up to 73 or even 76,
where Universal Credit has started.

The poorest have seen far more inflation, for all ages, as a percentage of their meage money, in food prices and energy bills.

Am I serioously fed up of pensioner bashing and being told we are better off than other age groups, by politically motivated statistics.

Why is Labour try to chase the mythical youth vote, when 4 million are not even registered to vote and least likely to vote.

The flat rate state pension will massively reduce the state pension for those with state pension payout age from next year, 2016.

For huge numbers, they will get nil state pension for life.

See why under:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Just when Universal Credit hits Pension Credit,
as does the Flat Rate State Pension in and from 2016.

The over 60s are within working poor well beyond retiring age, because the state pension is the lowest of all rich nations bar poor Mexico.

The state pension is payable if remain in work or not.

The IFS puts the state pension at 4 per cent lowest income.

Most people only with state pension as pension provision in old age, are also low waged and probably more likely part time.

Part time workers will also get hit by the permanent sanctions of Universal Credit, for failing to do the miracle of moving to full time hours.

Why permanent?

Because UC will call Hardship Payments a recoverable loan with direct deductions from future benefit or wages.

When most increases in employment have been in low waged
part time jobs.

And in amongst the low waged are those
who are out of the welfare state and state pension system,
because they are below the
Lower Earnings Level
to get automatic National Insurance credits.

Labour alone cannot form a majority government, even with SNP and Plaid Cymru as partners.

To get the 323 MP threshold and beyond, more parties are needed that would be natural allies and help the poor,
that Labour has entirely lost the votes in the UK.

Trade Unionist and Socialsit Coalition (TUSC)

Class War

Mebyon Kernow of Cornwall

In Tory and Lib Dem marginals, especially in England.
Cornwall has single figure marginals.

If trade unions funded the ads (I’ve found cheap and effective ways to do this in front of Jobcentres, food banks and in the high street, to suggest?) for these parties now, then the nil media coverage and nil coverage in left leaning blogs, would be overtturned.

http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706056 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:15:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706056 In reply to Godfrey Paul.

Exactly. He’s also a straightline austerity-loving neoliberal.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/comment-page-2/#comment-706055 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:13:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706055 In reply to robertcp.

You have a very strange definition of “happy”. That is, not ignoring your posted views makes ME happy. Erm…

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By: Joe Bloggs https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/#comment-706054 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:12:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706054 It’s often said that pensioners are well protected from tory austerity, and that Cameron wants/ needs the “grey vote”.
However, one pensioner I am acquainted with, has been notified that his weekly pension is going to rise by a whole £1.09, for the year to April 2016.
The battle with his greedy-filth energy company, and exorbitant charges from his foreign-owned water & sewage company goes on, and the extra £1.09 will surely help, I’m sure.

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By: robertcp https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/#comment-706053 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:36:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706053 In reply to Guest.

Okay, I am an austerity lover. Whatever makes you happy!

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By: Godfrey Paul https://leftfootforward.org/2015/03/the-ifs-confirms-it-the-worst-tory-cuts-really-are-still-to-come/#comment-706051 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:32:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=100435#comment-706051 On the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning Balls said he would not reverse any of the major items in the Budget !!!

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