"More than 3 million families will lose an average of £1,720 a year in real terms as a result of the cuts, according to government analysis, with an extra 250,000 people falling into relative poverty by 2029-30. As a result, the number of people living in relative poverty will rise to nearly 14.5m, including an extra 50,000 children."
As it happens I was at the long covid support group yesterday, which just emphasised how detached from reality some of this rhetoric is. How someone with chronic fatigue is supposed to hold down a job without at the very least a supportive, accommodating employer is not very clear to me.
"This is about helping people into work". Fuck off it is.