Redistributing Wealth

[Octafish]

16. To make sure we don't catch on, the elite give us AUSTERITY.

WHO BENEFITS FROM HARSH GOVERNMENT AUSTERITY?

By Amit Singh -
Consented, Dec. 14, 2015

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Since 2009 the richest 1000 families in Britain have doubled their net worth whilst the poorest 20% are now 57% worse off. The vast majority are suffering because of austerity economics and the gap between rich and poor has only increased during this period.

Despite successive British governments claiming to be advocates of free-market economic principles they opted to bail out the banks with £500 billion of taxpayers’ money. The legacy of this bailout has been that everyone else has had to tighten their purse strings whilst the government cut key public services – hitting the poorest the hardest.

Fast forward seven years and the most vulnerable in society are still being targeted by austerity. Since 2010, for instance, over 30 domestic violence centres have been closed because of cuts to local councils.

Austerity has meant that now more than one million people in the UK have been forced to use food banks. Cuts are hitting people so hard that they cannot afford to eat whilst the government looks on and continues to chop away at public spending. This is a direct consequence of austerity as in 2008-09 there were only 29 Trussell Trust food banks but by 2014-15 this number had increased to 445 to service that austerity driven demand.

The lack of humanity for this economic ideology was demonstrated when in 2013 Mark Wood starved to death having had his benefits cut after a fitness for work assessment deemed him fit enough to seek employment.

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http://www.consented.co.uk/read/who-benefits-from-harsh-government-austerity/