MPs approve annual welfare cap in Commons vote

[dipsydoodle]

MPs have overwhelmingly backed plans to introduce an overall cap on the amount the UK spends on welfare each year.

Welfare spending, excluding the state pension and some unemployment benefits, will be capped next year at £119.5bn.

The idea, put forward by Chancellor George Osborne in last week's Budget, would in future see limits set at the beginning of each Parliament.

With Labour supporting the idea, the measure was approved in the House of Commons by 520 to 22 votes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26743802

[PumpkinAle]

1. So long as it doesn't affect them

they just don't give a damn about those who may need welfare, unless it is corporations and that is different.

[djean111]

2. Just think - no need to spend all that time gutting individual programs!

Just keep lowering the cap. Or keep the cap firm, no COLA or increased numbers of those in need.
Will probably be proposed here. And would be a litmus test for the "loyalties" of either party.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Duncan-Smith is a monster; most Labourites are weaklings.

You want to spend less on welfare? Then try to get back to the concept of a full-employment state!

The following appear to have that rare thing known as a spine:

Diane Abbott, Ronnie Campbell, Katy Clark, Michael Connarty, Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, Glenda Jackson, John McDonnell, George Mudie, Linda Riordan, Dennis Skinner, Tom Watson, Mike Wood

Far too few!

[T_i_B]

4. Far too few is an understatement

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