Thanks to Cameron’s austerity, this sickening Victorian tradition is making a comeback

‘There has been a drastic increase in people relying on local councils, rather than loved ones, to bury them when they die. It appears that austerity not only burdens people in life but also in death.

It is a terrible indictment of the Tories’ economic failure that there has been an almost 30% increase in so-called ‘pauper’s funerals’. In these cases local authorities pick up the bill for people who die alone or when relatives are unable to pay the costs.

Councils reluctantly handle the fees when they are unable to trace any family members, and pay the bare minimum – which means an unmarked grave for the dead. This means, in a grim and ironic twist that the savings made by cutting welfare and social services, by further impoverishing people, are now being paid out to cover the costs of these bargain send-offs. The taxes of the living servicing the needs of the dead.’

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