Suella Braverman said people on benefits were choosing not to work – only 9 replies you need
Tory leadership contender Suella Braverman has been setting out her stall why she should be the country’s next PM by by claiming that the UK spends ‘too much on welfare’.
Specifically, she took aim at people who she said preferred to be on benefits than go to work. Here’s what the attorney general told ITV News.
‘There are too many people in this country who are of working age, who are of good health, and who are choosing to rely on benefits’
Tory leadership contender Suella Braverman tells ITV News Political Correspondent @carldinnen that the UK spends ‘too much on welfare’ pic.twitter.com/DEnEfn1jGj
— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) July 11, 2022
And these are surely the only 9 replies you need.
1.
Is there any evidence of this alleged fraud? If so, why have the Tories done nothing about it? Or is this just classic classist prejudice? https://t.co/jvQhRyYKp9
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) July 11, 2022
2.
Your regular reminder that about 40% of Universal Credit claimants are in work pic.twitter.com/4coaRvcenB
— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) July 11, 2022
3.
Business and tax fraud is around £20 billion per year on average. Benefit fraud is estimated at around £1.5 to £2billion. Business is ten times more fraudulent than welfare. By all means tackle both, but get your priorities straight. https://t.co/cmzFrC269C
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) July 11, 2022
4.
https://twitter.com/MatFlusk/status/1546559507903533058?s=20&t=bl4c4-JcVXctA-ZXcXCp7A
5.
Didn't take long for this trite shit to come out did it? https://t.co/ELdoMB2dNA
— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) July 11, 2022
6.
Who are these too many people? Where are they? The case load challenges for the benefits system are on the disability side these days. Very few households without someone with a health condition are workless https://t.co/fvFn08xww7
— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) July 11, 2022
7.
You cannot know anything about Universal Credit conditionality and think this is true. https://t.co/w3sxk3hIk2
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) July 11, 2022
8.
The lack of awareness about the country she wishes to lead is staggering.
During a cost of living crisis, she’d cut fundamental support because she has no idea about the range of very real circumstances that makes it absolutely necessary for so many.
Her ignorance would kill. https://t.co/ilR0xlxTds
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) July 11, 2022
9.
2000s fashion is back baby, from cargo trousers and baguette bags, to pushing total bullshit about welfare recipients in order to bolster an economic project which transfers money from the poor to the rich. https://t.co/9Uh20lxIF2
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) July 11, 2022
To conclude …
The UK is at *full employment* and 40% of those claiming Universal Credit are in work. https://t.co/0dVg2BFZyZ
— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) July 11, 2022
In two words.
Mary Workhouse pic.twitter.com/OJDNbb4Z8r
— John Harris (@johnharris1969) July 11, 2022
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