‘Welfare Persecution’ secretary reduced to sneaking into her own home town
Not smiling: and with her record, Therese Coffey has nothing to smile about.
Therese Coffee really is a piece of… work, isn’t she?
On March 6, she made a visit to Liverpool, dropping in on the Job Centres at Bootle and Toxteth (recently the subject of a BBC documentary).
It’s her home town; she went to school there – but she had to sneak in like a burglar because her views make her hated.
She claims to be a Liverpool FC supporter but considers Margaret Thatcher – who blamed Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster – to be a personal hero.
She voted for the Bedroom Tax.
She voted to cut Universal Credit – and refused to support ending the cruel five-week wait for the first payment of that benefit.
She voted to cut disability benefits – and has failed even to sign up for Disability Confident, a scheme that encourages employers like her (she pays for staff in her Parliamentary office) to take on disabled workers.
This last is particularly hypocritical as last November she appealed to employers to “take a look at their record on disability employment and think about what they can do to help create a more equal Britain”.
Clearly Ms Coffey considers herself to be above that.
Still, it seems there’s a precedent. Of all the previous Tory Work and Pensions secretaries, only Stephen Crabbe is actually listed as having signed up to Disability Confident (although Damian Green says he has, and that he has a disabled staff member).
Iain Duncan Smith, who introduced the scheme in 2013, isn’t on it.
Nor were Esther McVey, David Gauke and Amber Rudd ever part of it.
What a shower.
No wonder Ms Coffey doesn’t want to announce it when she comes to visit.
I’m surprised that she was allowed in by staff at the job centres.
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This is the woman who refuses to accept that any causal link exists between DWP (Tory) policy and destitution, despite all glaringly obvious evidence to the contrary. Absolute scumbag. Typical Tory. Hurry up and have an heart attack.
Reminds me of gobbels and a few others oh dear they don’t want to be reminded of their cruelty to the Masse’s