People choose to be poor and disabled – this is the logic behind the Tories’ £12billion of welfare cuts

‘We’ve known since May that welfare cuts under the Conservative government would be brutal, but it wasn’t until the weekend that we found out just how bad they’re going to be.

It’s now been revealed that £12bn worth of welfare cuts will be included in next month’s budget, with even more rolled out in the autumn spending review.

Such cuts are based on nothing more than the Tory myth that poverty is a choice which people can be scared or starved out of. Osborne’s logic appears to be that if the Tories make life for poor people insufferable, they will simply choose to be well-off. As such, poverty is a lifestyle choice or a moral failing.’

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