Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!)
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith is claiming that his welfare reforms are creating jobs.
Quite how cutting welfare payments to terminally ill cancer sufferers – for example – is supposed to create jobs, he doesn’t quite explain:
Deadly delay for cancer patients as thousands are waiting months to get benefits
Perhaps he’s referring to an uptick in jobs being created in the greetings card, flower delivery and undertaking sectors?
And to be fair to Duncan Smith, dying probably is quite a good way to get you off the unemployment figures.
Sometimes I think trying to satirise this government is getting to be almost impossible.
They satirise themselves so much better than I ever could.
.
Related articles by Tom Pride:UK today: 40% of cancer patients can’t afford to heat their home properly
Dad deported from UK for having cancer
View original 108 more words
