“Ordinary people have fought hard and often bitter battles to achieve these rights – and we mustn’t let them be struck out by politicians who think they are merely getting in their way.”
“The timing couldn’t be worse. But it’s like he doesn’t even care. He’s got an 80-seat majority and he just thinks everything will be fine.”
We take a closer look at some of the false claims made by the prime minister during the 45-minute address.
‘Under the Bill, protests could be banned because they are deemed to be noisy and disruptive and participants could be prosecuted’.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
The MP for Mid Bedfordshire has previously retweeted the former leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson and shared Islamophobic tropes against London mayor Sadiq Khan
“This Government doesn’t care!”
One thinks it ‘guarantees the total victory of socialism in Britain’.
‘We need a tax rise to pay for social care, but not this one’.
‘The likes of BP and Exxon need to be held accountable for the masses of emissions they produce’.
