Sounds like he's brimming with compassion
The new minister for Disabled People at the Department of Work and Pensions is no friend of the vulnerable if his voting record is anything to go by.
Justin Tomlinson MP, who David Cameron appointed this morning in his cabinet reshuffle, voted for a number of draconian policies directed at disabled people over the course of the previous parliament.
These included:
- Voting against 365-day exceptions on contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance for those undergoing cancer treatment:
- Voting for the Bedroom Tax:
- Voting against the long-term sick and disabled receiving Employment and Support Allowance on the same basis as if they had made sufficient National Insurance contributions to qualify for a contribution-based allowance:
- Voting against setting the lower rate of Universal Credit in relation to disabled children at a minimum two-thirds of the higher rate:
- Voting against allowing benefits to increase in line with prices:
Sounds like he’s brimming with compassion.
Source: They Work For You
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64 Responses to “He voted against benefit exceptions for cancer patients: meet the new minister for disabled people”
Janet T-Tremaine
Who are you to make judgement about someone you have not even met.
Janet T-Tremaine
Bye… This is a different world and morally this society has gone to the dogs. Amazingly, it is many of the younger generation that have realised that a life on the dole is not for them and it is this government that has given the reason to aspire to something better for their future by the provision of a good education, apprenticeships and opportunities of getting into business = and it is business that brings in the taxes to pay for the topheavy benefit system.
Janet T-Tremaine
Please do NOT join the SNP. Did you know that their MPs had to swear an OATH on joining up? Sounds awfully like Communism to me. SNP also wants to provide government run nursery schools where they can “control” the curricula… mmmmmm!
Asteri
Oh here we go, the old Tory line about business being the be all and end all of everything. Tell me, how many small businesses do you think the Tories have managed to destroy when the corporate interests that own them decimated this country through monopoly ownership, sky high rental rates, red tape, and sending in the goons to clubb business owners while letting the big boys get away with massive tax evasion and price manipulation?
You’re a party of oligarchs who appeal to the most selfish and greedy sides of human nature to get elected.
Janet T-Tremaine
Can you not see that taxes (which are needed by governments of whatever ilk) are generated by people who are working mainly for the private sector and businesses and it is this business tax and personal tax that supports ALL public services of a country? Now, if you do not see that, then we will never get past the “money tree” scenario that socialists (Labour et al) think is at their beck and call whenever they run out of funds. They just do not have the answers when it comes to the economy. By the way public sector taxes are in my opinion, just a way of robbing the bank because the over-generous salaries and final salary pension payments, are just recycling of public money – not fair. As for your dig at monopoly ownership – that is what expanding or growing a business is all about. If you have an idea for a business there is nothing stopping you going for it and building it up for yourself. Concerning the tax evasion twaddle; that little scenario will be getting a good revision. You may remember it was rife under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and Blair and Cherie are very, very rich with property portfolios and stacks of cash dotted around. Anyway, this government has reclaimed more from the tax evaders in this past 5 years than ever Labour did in 13 years.