Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
A man was burned alive in Britain – and nobody seems to care.Malcolm Burge, 66, found himself more than £800 in debt as a result of a government decision to cut his housing benefit by 50%.
The council dealing with his case was also unable to correspond properly with Mr Burge because of a massive backlog they were experiencing – again due to government cuts to local government funding.
And so – on the same day he received a letter telling him he had to repay the money – Mr Burge drove to Cheddar Gorge and burned himself alive in his car.
Just the latest victim of Iain Duncan Smith’s war on the poor:
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Iain Duncan Smith’s portrait made from photos of people who died for being poor (click on image to enlarge)
Some of his victims:
Malcolm Burge:
Edward Jacques:
Graham Shawcross:
David Coupe:
David…
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