Tory irresponsibility: Sunak financial statement sparked four suicides in Merseyside
Who, exactly, are the Tories helping with the hundreds of billions of pounds they have borrowed?
According to the latest projections, the government is likely to have borrowed £316.4 billion more than last year, mostly on Covid-19-related measures.
That’s about £5,000 per person and This Writer can’t help thinking the money would have been better-spent if the Tories had just given it to each of us and told us to stay at home.
Instead, they devised a series of financial packages to fit people in certain circumstances – and to ignore others.
That’s the reason the Liverpool Echo is reporting that four people in Merseyside were known to have committed suicide after hearing Rishi Sunak’s most recent financial statement.
The Echo quotes Anneka Hicks of Excluded UK, an organisation to help a large proportion of the workforce who have been cut out of any ‘meaningful government support schemes’:
Over the past eight months many of our members have had to sell their homes, their cars – they have depleted their entire life savings.
They’ve lost their dignity. Many of them have been forced to take state benefits (if they can) and use food banks to feed their families, they’ve lost their businesses or made redundancies.
They are expected to start again with nothing, or less than nothing.
Sadly, we lost four members to suicide within 72 hours of the chancellor’s latest financial statement, but they are only the people we know about.
There are more details in the Echo article but look at the heartlessness of the government response:
We’ve acknowledged that not everyone has been helped in the way they would have wanted, but overall the Government has provided a huge amount to help businesses and families through this crisis.
The scheme’s eligibility criteria are designed to most effectively target support to low earners and prevent fraud.
It seems clear that it isn’t working.
And now Sunak wants people like these to pay increased taxes. One of them points out
I pay my taxes every year, I expected something back from that.
How can Sunak expect money from people he deliberately locked out of any help – or the families of people who have died as a result of his policies?
Source: ‘Four suicides within 72 hours of Rishi Sunak statement’ says campaigner – Liverpool Echo
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