Rishi Sunak hints at benefits squeeze to pay for tax cuts

This Mothers’ Day several women started a hunger strike outside parliament to protest rising food costs and pressures on family budgets.

On Wednesday the chancellor unveiled his budget - cutting national insurance by 2 pence.

By Thursday the PM said he wanted to go even further by cutting it altogether, a policy he today said could be funded by benefit cuts.
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[GoingtoHecq]

He just wants to make rich people richer and he is willing to steal money from the poor to do it.

[LiamHanilton-kokg]

Targeting the poorest in society is disgraceful. Tax the billionaires and the cooperation making billions in profit while claiming their price increases necessary. demanding higher charges for the consumer.

[abigailweir]

The billionaire PM and his millionaire MPs are cutting taxes for their friends and sponsors by reducing benefits that require foodbank trips now, even further. Callous doesn't begin to describe them all.

[BrianJ]

There's nothing left to squeeze, Sunak! You're better off collecting on corporate tax evaders.

[MarkPMus]

Tory policy: Take everything from the poor. Give it to themselves.

[renegadearcadehighs]

£15 million a day on hotel room for migrants There only so much to go around

[abigailweir]

Do those pub goers in Rotherham know the welfare state, pensions and the NHS will go? Do they have the money for private healthcare, a state pension and no need for welfare safety nets?

[evgeniynagornyak]

I remember, women had a strike a few years ago about pension rises. Nobody supported them.
And, was from 60 to 62 retirement. Now, 71 . And, no action . Are we mad.

[johnrussell]

Does he really want to push the people that far they rebel?

[happywarrior]

How about all mps take a ten percent pay cut???

[stevieda]

He needs to get the billions of taxpayers money back that disappeared through furlough fraud. If it was his or his wife's own money, he would have had every police department in every country looking for it.

[janeknight]

If you can’t see a GP you cannot have a sick note!! Now that COVID is over the first 3 days of sickness are unfounded. I bet MPs don’t lose those 3 days from their pay packets. Let us move the conversation in that direction shall we.

[johndean]

Tell me about it. Our son had been in special needs with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties since age 5. Who had his PIP removed by the Witch Hunters employed by our Government. Job Center hounded him to get a job. And every job he applied for he got turned down for. The pressure of the Job Centre and the removal of his PIP lead to an attempted Suicide. He is now 30 with No Income and still applying for jobs with the same outcome. Me and my wife are now pensioners and have to support him. Which as the years go by worries us to death because we only have so much time left. Whitch Hunters apparently made a Miracle Cure. That No one else been able to cure in centuries.

[chrismurphy]

2 Rules in life
1 Never trust a Tory
2 Never foget rule number 1

[nikkster]

hey be kind folks do you have any idea how much dosh is needed to run a 5000 acre estate someone inherited from daddy

[sharonwilliams]

How typical of the government, I would love to see them survive on benefits 😡

[jebbo-cl]

punishing vulnerable people and gutting the social safety net to save people who are doing fine a little money

[Demun]

How does a builder, who lost half an arm, in an accident, go back to being a builder? "Fit" note. Not based on reality.

[Imrankhan-pwow]

So basically shafts the least we'll off to help the rich. Typical tory billionaire. Don't be fooled by Sir kier kidstarver either, 2 cheeks of the same backside.

[evgeniynagornyak]

Who are this people that sitting in the pub and listening Sunak?