The Coalition fut coins told us in we needed to keep a thorough check on what we spend and who it gets spent on.That’s how they justified an audit of every allegedly disabled, supposedly vulnerable, and apparently unemployable person in the country.
From ATOS checks to the bedroom tax, from JSA sanctions to local authority cuts to respite care, they have focused on the people at the bottom of the pile.
And not a single one of them – nary a wheelchair-bound claimant, jobseeker, drug addict, shirker nor tenant of Benefits Street – is responsible for austerity.