Slaughter of first-borns could save £50bn in Child Benefit, pledges Cameron

[T_i_B]

http://newsthump.com/2012/06/26/slaughter-of-first-borns-could-save-50bn-in-child-benefit-pledges-cameron/

In a radical overhaul of the welfare system, David Cameron has set out plans for a measured policy of infanticide that could massively reduce the UK deficit, according to experts.

The proposed scheme, which will initially target northern cities with a high proportion of working class people, would bring an abrupt end to the ‘culture of entitlement’ to a child.

The proposals are seen as ‘red meat’ to disgruntled Tories eager to put some clear blue water between themselves and their coalition partners, even if it’s teeming with thousands of screaming babies floating downstream in Fortnum & Mason hampers.

Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, who engineered the policy, countered “As well as saving the country an estimated £50bn over the four years of ‘implementation’, it would mean less chaotic supermarkets, fewer 4x4s on the road, and an eerie silence when absent-mindedly walking into a creche.”

[HereSince1628]

1. A Modest Proposal...it probably does look like red meat...n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Curiously, though, they omitted the part about the food supply.

[HereSince1628]

3. They never really share the truth about their intentions. n/t

[fedsron2us]

4. Reminds me of Dean Swifts 'Modest Proposal'

for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

I sometimes think that these Satirist's double up as Osborne's speech writers

[dipsydoodle]

5. That is a vicious article

but it get the point home.

[T_i_B]

6. Trouble is....

...The Tory conference has been a platform for a cornucopia of really bad, spiteful policies and it takes quite a lot for satire to top their loopiness.

As FedsRon2us points out, this is a blatant rip off of Johnathan Swift. The politicians are trying to set this country back by 300 years so it takes satire from that date to parody them.