Stephen Crabb announces there will be no further cuts to welfare

[AtW]

Government announces there are no plans for further cuts to welfare

Stephen Crabb, the new Welfare and Pensions Secretary, has suggested there will be no more welfare savings in this Parliament.

He announced the government will not be going ahead with changes to PIP and that there will be no further plans to make welfare savings in this parliament.

“We will not be going ahead with the changes to PIP that had been put forward,” he said

“I am absolutely clear that a compassionate and fair welfare system should not just be about numbers.

“Behind every statistic is a human being and perhaps sometimes in government we forget that.

Source: Stephen Crabb announces there will be no further cuts to welfare - after David Cameron praises George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith - Telegraph

So, IDS took one for the team and protected countless people from savage Tory Scum (tm) cuts. What will they be cutting now?



Health, Welfare and Edukation are ring fenced, so is the Defense. We can also be pretty certain that Debt Interest won't be cut either

My calculation is that they'll need to cut 84 bln out of 181 bln remaining to get proficit IF the economy does not tank (which it will thanks to attack on investors who'd invest their money elsewhere).

[d000hg]

There are no plans. This week.

[SueEllen]

Gidiot worried about riots in his own party?

Or was that the only reason Crabb would take the role?

[AtW]

Or was that the only reason Crabb would take the role?

I was thinking just that...

[SueEllen]

I was thinking just that...

I looked up Crabb's background when he was appointed.

State educated from a single parent family due to a violent father.

Not Eurosceptic so probably not a leadership contender at the moment.

[AtW]

[NickFitz]

The bizarre thing is that they're insisting they'll get MPs to vote on the Budget tomorrow, despite the fact that this affair has blown a £4.4 billion hole in the damn thing and Gideon hasn't got the faintest idea what to fill it with

"Yeah, this finance bill is obviously now worthless and we can't tell you what we're actually going to do because we don't know, but just vote it through so we can pretend we're on top of things, there's a good chap."

FFS

[AtW]

The bizarre thing is that they're insisting they'll get MPs to vote on the Budget tomorrow, despite the fact that this affair has blown a £4.4 billion hole in the damn thing and Gideon hasn't got the faintest idea what to fill it with

I thought actual voting was done in summer, by which time CoE will actually provide full details of what will happen?

[NickFitz]

I thought actual voting was done in summer, by which time CoE will actually provide full details of what will happen?

Looking at tomorrow's order of business in the Commons, it looks like "Conclusion of Budget debate" must be the thing they're voting on, rather than the actual Finance Bill. Still, unless Gideon manages to have a sofa delivered that he can find £4.4 billion down the back of…

[NickFitz]

Apparently Downing Street was at great pains to clarify that Crabb didn't say "no more welfare cuts" but "no more welfare cuts planned at the moment"