Man who hounded the disabled and sick resigns because another man proposed doing more of the same

A member of the Conservative government who persistently hounded the disabled and sick over a period of years has today resigned because the Chancellor proposed hounding the sick and disabled in his new budget.

In his explosive resignation letter Mr Duncan Smith said: “I am unable to watch passively whilst certain policies are enacted in order to meet the fiscal self-imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest,”

“Too often my team and I have been pressured in the immediate run up to a budget or fiscal event to deliver yet more reductions to the working-age benefit bill.

“There has been too much emphasis on money-saving exercises and not enough awareness from the Treasury, in particular, that the government’s vision of a new welfare-to-work system could not be repeatedly salami-sliced.

“It is therefore with enormous regret that I have decided to resign.”

The pro-Conservative BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said:”To be fair, George Osborne has an incredibly difficult job to do, and his redistribution of wealth from the poorest to the wealthiest is unquestionably the best course of action for the Chancellor to take.”

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3 thoughts on “Man who hounded the disabled and sick resigns because another man proposed doing more of the same”

  1. I think Laura K Zgot her words.mixed up and meant redirecting the wealth if the rich to the poor eas in the best interest……..surely not as printed….

  2. IDS has fallen on his iron cross the odious nasty little tory nazi sympathiser. Good riddance you horribe man.

  3. He has no interest in the sick or disabled people! he is just jumping on the Boris bandwagon, it’s a career move, another driven purely by total self interest. Using the sick and disabled in an immoral cover up for his own ambition. An appalling man.

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