Liz Truss has previously suggested universal benefits such as the state pension should be scrapped because of the “huge expense” to taxpayers of “recycling” their money through the system – prompting fears she could go further still with her plans to cut back the benefits bill.
The proposal, included in her motion to the Liberal Democrat Youth conference in spring 1995, highlighted the “enormous – and rising – cost of pensions and child benefit”, calling for a “search for realistic alternatives to universal benefits”.
Truss, who left the party the next year to join the Conservatives, had added that it was not “socially desirable to pay out universal benefits in the current fashion”, given the “huge expense to the taxpayers of recycling money through the tax system”. » | Pippa Crerar, Political editor | Friday, September 30, 2022
State pensions are NOT a “benefit”! Benefits are handouts from the government. State pensions have to be paid for, by law, by the eventual recipient.
Madame Truss is going the right way about getting people onto the streets! I see before me a ‘winter of discontent’. In order to avoid this happening, I suggest that Madame Truss be unceremoniously kicked out of Number 10. I also suggest that her sidekick, the practitioner of voodoo economics, also be kicked out of Number 11. BEFORE they do any more damage to this country and its economy. The Tories should be kicked out of office forthwith, as well. They have been in office for far too long. As a result, they are stale and bereft of any good ideas.
I suggest that Madame Truss be recycled: recycled into the dustbin of history! – © Mark Alexander
