Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
April 1st- No joke!
-Bedroom Tax introduced.
-Legal Aid slashed
-Council Tax benefits funding transferred to local councils and slashed by 10%.
-NHS commissioning transferred to 240 local GP led CCGs, enabling fragmentation and privatisation of NHS.
April 6th
- 50p tax rate scrapped i.e. Tax cuts for the rich.
April 8th
-Disability living allowance scrapped, replaced by restricted Personal Independence Payment.
-Benefit uprating cut and pegged at 1%, instead of rising with inflation.
April 15th
-Welfare benefit cap to be rolled out starting in Haringey, Enfield, Croydon and Bromley. Estimates of 80,000 households to become homeless.
Also sale of RAF Search and Rescue Service.
Proposed sale of Blood and Plasma Service.
Immanent return of Section 75 to the House of Lords to ensure Clinical Commissioning Groups put the majority of NHS services out to tender enabling wholesale privatisation.
Cuts to Citizen Advice Bureau funding.
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Permalink Reply by Zena Brabazon on
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Hi Maggie
How right you are! It is no joke as we see the welfare state dismantled by this terrible government. As a Labour Councillor I fervently hope that these attacks on our social system are reversed in 2015 should we win the general election. Alan and I saw Spirit of 45 yesterday which told the story of the birth of the modern welfare state. Incredibly moving with stories from fantastic people. The tragedy is that the clock is going backwards to the pre-welfare state and it looks like many people don't seem to appreciate what we are losing.
Zena Brabazon
Labour Cllr, St. Ann's Ward
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Permalink Reply by Alice Lemaitre on
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so what's the Labour party doing about it then??? This is too easy: bashing not acting. It's infuriating. It's not surprising we see such a high level of abstention.
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