Labour MP says two-fifths of her constituents on Universal Credit are considering suicide
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I’ve just had 40% of my constituents at advice surgery today tell me they’re ready to end their lives because of the misery of your Universal Credit system. Letter to follow with the individual cases, but ultimately the system is failing.
Cat Smith MP
The DWP’s favourite excuse for benefit related suicides is that the issue is extremely complex and no suicide could be exclusively attributed to the department’s behaviour. But can that claim withstand the direct blame of the people concerned?
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What will Amber Rudd think? She’ll tweet that UC is working as planned and that 40% of claimants are enjoying the benefits of government policy.
That policy being of course, eugenics.
I don’t suppose Rudd cares – this is deliberate vindictive Tory cruelty.
Ch4 News had a deeply disturbing story about teachers who had identified terrible poverty amongst their pupils. It was really awful.
But it is not just the Conservatives who are to blame for this. Plenty of Labour MPs would prefer to spend money on nuclear-armed submarines, aircraft carriers and perpetual war.
So many politics in regard to Hastings and fact is people hate with a vengeance Labour too. None enamoured at Peter Chowney choice as Labour parliamentary candidate.