Comments by "Caroline Collett" (@carolinecollett956) on ""They tell me to live on the streets" - universal Credit "isn't working"" video.

  1. Lord Freud. Lord Freud suggested that some disabled people are 'not worth' the minimum wage. UK Politics · Minister who helped create Universal Credit ...
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  2. In 2012, he argued that many people were on benefits as a "lifestyle choice" rather than using it as a safety net. In 2013, he stated in a House of Lords speech, to much criticism, that the number of food banks were increasing because people want free food rather than growing poverty.
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  3. English as well , whilst we put the foreigners first !
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  4. Gordon Brown was a far better prime minister He had a real concern for poorer families and he helped them with his policies
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  5. In 2014, Labour MPs called for Freud's resignation after he was secretly recorded responding to a question posed at a fringe meeting of the Conservative Party conference. The question was whether some people with disabilities should work for a token sum in order to enjoy the non-financial advantages of engaging in the world of work, perhaps with their wages topped up by benefit payments. Freud agreed that there was a small group of disabled people who were "not worth the full wage" and said he would go away and think about it. Freud had to apologise. He said: "I was foolish to accept the premise of the question...I care passionately about disabled people...that is why through Universal Credit...we have increased overall spending on disabled households by £250 million, offered the most generous work allowance ever, and increased the disability addition to £360 per month".
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  6. In 2006, Freud was asked by Tony Blair to review the UK's welfare-to-work system, with Blair having been impressed by Freud's raising of finance for Eurotunnel and EuroDisney while at UBS. However, many of Freud's ideas were not implemented because of objections made by Gordon Brown.[4] Freud's 2007 report titled Reducing dependency, increasing opportunity: options for the future of welfare to work called for the greater use of private sector companies who would be paid by results, for substantial resources to be made available to help lone parents and people on Incapacity Benefit back into work, and for a single working-age benefit payment to replace Housing Benefit, Jobseekers Allowance, etc.[5] His central thesis was that spending on 'delivery' – such as schemes to get people back to work – would save money in the long run because there would be fewer people being paid money in the form of benefits. Freud wrote:
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  7. Tony Blair again , responsible for more than just the Iraq war but capping benefits for the extremely vulnerable claimants including the disabled
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  8. The Universal Credit mechanism was itself first outlined as a concept in a 2009 report, Dynamic Benefits, by Iain Duncan Smith's thinktank the Centre for Social Justice. It would go on to be described by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith at the Conservative Party annual conference in 2010.
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  9. Contraception is a prevention to mass murder by abortions that can be avoided by education
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  10. Benefits are for the extremely poor and vulnerable people suffering One months payment equates to an average restaurant bill of a meal of the MPs that implement these measly benefits that cannot afford holidays , gas and electricity, water and television licences usually
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  11. Marriages should be promoted in schools 🏫
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  12. Marriages should be promoted by their mothers
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  13. Contraception should be automatically given out when girls reach puberty
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  14. The country is overpopulated and as those numbers increase the benefits decrease for the rest of the population receiving state benefits because of the explosion of poverty
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  15. The poor woman ‘ is on the street ‘ with a roof over her head
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  16. In 2008, during the banking crisis that had begun the previous year, Freud became a formal adviser to Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and Freud was asked to "help implement nothing less than a revolution in the welfare state" after a "sea change in Labour's thinking about the benefits system".[7] Some of his ideas were incorporated into a white paper published later that year.[8] However, he came to the belief the Conservative Party was "more likely to implement his radical reforms" and announced that he would switch to working with the Conservatives.[9][10] Purnell later resigned after Gordon Brown refused to cut welfare spending.[11] On 27 June 2009, he was made a life peer after his name was put forward by the Conservative leadership. He then became a shadow minister in David Cameron's frontbench team.
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