This didn’t happen: But you can bet the Tories would have wanted it.

Days after the Tories won their landslide in December 2019, Mrs Mike wrote the following:

“Basically now we are all buggered.

“No hope left for me as I’m disabled and they’ve messed me about so much already.

“I don’t see any compassion for people like myself and all the others like me out there – and to all the ones who have already taken their lives because of cuts cuts cuts cuts n more cuts.

“I’m so disappointed in people in general because of all the hatred towards different groups of people.

“And it’s now going to get worse. Thanks a bunch.”

She wrote it, and so it came to pass.

But at that point, all I did was point out what I thought the Tories would not do. Now I can modify that by telling you what they didn’t do.

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They didn’t…

… give us reform of the Department for Work and Pensions. Labour would have scrapped the DWP because the culture of persecution had become so ingrained into it that the only responsible choice was to dissolve the entire department and replace it with a new Department of Social Security. That did not happen under the Conservatives and the culture of persecution continued to kill people – your relatives, maybe.

…reform the benefit system and scrap Universal Credit. UC had been a hugely-expensive ‘white elephant’ from the start – but it did exactly what the Conservatives wanted: It killed benefit claimants.

…reform the so-called “digital barrier” that obstructs people who have trouble coping with computers and the internet from claiming benefits. Telephone, face-to-face and outreach support cost money and might result in people actually being able to claim the benefits they deserve and no Tory MP wanted that.

…end the five-week wait for Universal Credit payments. This plunged people into crushing poverty which is exactly where the Tories wanted them.

…reintroduce fortnightly payments, to help people manage their money. Tories wanted benefit claimants to be in a permanent state of panic, poverty and – ultimately – despair. Look at what Mrs Mike said, above.

…end the evil sanction regime. It is unfair and harsh for a reason – to harm poor people.

…scrap the benefit cap. Tories are about denying money to the people who really need it.

…end the two-child limit on benefits and scrap the so-called ‘rape clause’. Despite being described as “immoral and outrageous”, Tories love it because it humiliates women.

…pay the child element of benefits to the primary carer, to ensure that women are no longer forced to stay in abusive relationships by the system. Tories like keeping women in abusive relationships.

…end the Bedroom Tax and increase the Local Housing Allowance to protect people against the threat of eviction. Tories wanted to pitch poor people into the street. Their homes could then be redeveloped into high-cost dwellings for the very rich, “gentrifying” – and socially-cleansing – whole towns.

…stop benefit assessments being contracted-out to private companies and ensure that all benefit assessments were carried out by government employees in future. Privatisation is a Tory mantra. While it encourages corruption, it also puts any harm caused to claimants at arms’-length from the Tory government itself.

In the run-up to the next election, be sure to check what each party and candidate has to say about the benefit system. You might think you’re perfectly healthy and will never need it – but accidents and illnesses happen by surprise all the time.

Think about what happens to people on the benefit system – what really happens; don’t listen to all the silly stories about scroungers and spongers because they are nonsense. I refer to the real horror stories about seriously ill people who were denied benefits and died – either because their very real conditions killed them or because they were pushed to despair and took their own lives.

You don’t want that to happen to you. So be sure to check those manifesto booklets and policy documents in the run-up to the next election and vote for your own protection.

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