The Welfare Bill is about scoring political points

Daily Politics

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Speakers:
Andrew Neil
Harriett Baldwin

AN: The bills wording says it will quote: ‘make provisions relating to the uprating of certain social security benefits and tax credits.’ Should it not really be called George Osborne’s welfare trap for the Labour Party?

HB: I think that would be a very good name for it because actually I want to reassure a lot of your viewers today, I know you have a lot of pensioners watching, I want to reassure them that their pensions next year will actually go up more than inflation at 2.5% because of the triple lock, that is on top of a 5% increase last year…

Reblogged from Tom Watson MP