Boris Johnson attacks planned cuts to disability payments

[denem]

(Conservative) Mayor of London says Disability Living Allowance proposals could push disadvantaged group into deeper poverty

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has placed himself at loggerheads with the government over benefit changes after he formally objected to controversial cuts to disability payments.

Johnson's response to a consultation on changes to the Disability Living Allowance is critical of planned changes that will see hundreds of thousands of disabled people potentially lose benefits of up to £70 a week for care and mobility expenses

The Guardian, January 6, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/06/boris-johnson-attacks-disability-payments-cuts

So much for the Big Society. They don't need dog whistles anymore in a naked class war. Cameron vetoed the EU fiscal treaty last month for one reason only, to protect the City from regulation.

[freshwest]

1. Thanks for another heads up.

[LeftishBrit]

2. One of the nastiest things about this government is its mean-spiritedness about disability

Unfortunately fuelled by the right-wing media, implying that most people on disability are scroungers.

Boris isn't my favourite person, but I'm cheering him on this; he may have some influence on this subject. It's probably not a coincidence, that, unlike the government, he has to face the voters imminently.