Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
I think that's one of biggest social benefits ever seen , its incredible it came from the Tories and even matched with other social minded countries its pretty impressive.
I'm sure I read recently that Universal Credit claimants had been awarded £20 per week extra for a year and that equals a 25%+ rise on the basic allowance of a single person. Yes, Tories shovelling dough towards benefit claimants (gasps all round).

For a decade or more the government pretended it hadn't a pot to piss in. In 2017 Prime Minister May said "there's no magic money tree" in response to a nurse who asked why she hadn't received a pay rise in eight years. Well, there was and is a magic money tree (called QE) that when she spoke had gifted 434 billion pounds free of any charges to government and Sunak will be raiding that same magic money tree over and over in the months and years ahead.