Who will suffer the most under the present parliament?

[Majestic 10]

My own opinion is that people who do piddly nondescript jobs where they do not earn much, but top up massively on benifits will suffer the most. We all know the type, professional scroungers.

The have a few kids, scrounge heavily and live happily ever brigade.

[Daven 10]

The sick and elderly who are not fortunate enough to have the funds to pay for private health care.

[TeaFan 10]

The sick and elderly who are not fortunate enough to have the funds to pay for private health care.

 

Definitely the ill and disabled, particularly people with mental health problems. People don't seem to understand what a 25% cut in public funding is going to look like. The social care system is already at breaking point, and these cuts are going to tip it over the edge. When people start finding out that their elderly relatives have been found dead in their homes because there's been no money to pay someone to go and check on them, it's going to get very ugly. I hope those people feel empowered to take matters into their own hands when that happens.

[Anna B 1,431]

My own opinion is that people who do piddly nondescript jobs where they do not earn much, but top up massively on benifits will suffer the most. We all know the type, professional scroungers.

The have a few kids, scrounge heavily and live happily ever brigade.

 

What is scrounging about working hard at a low paid job?

 

The 'piddly nondescript jobs' have to be done by someone and it's hardly their fault if they fail to pay enough to live on.

 

In answer to the original question the poor and low paid will suffer most. They always do.

[andyofborg 11]

When people start finding out that their elderly relatives have been found dead in their homes because there's been no money to pay someone to go and check on them

 

shouldn't these people be checking on their relatives themselves or are they only in it for the inheritance?

[TeaFan 10]

shouldn't these people be checking on their relatives themselves or are they only in it for the inheritance?

 

Some people have to work for a living, and some people need checking on several times a day. How many employers do you think allow their staff to pop out for an hour 3 times a day to check on mum? Also, some people have been priced out of the housing market (even renting) in the areas where their parents live and grew up, because housing has been left almost entirely to a market mechanism.

[Darth Vader 10]

Pity the troll tax hasn't been introduced yet.

[Vague_Boy 10]

People don't seem to understand what a 25% cut in public funding is going to look like.

 

People don't seem to understand that the money isn't there any more (not that it ever really was, borrowed money isn't your money y'know, it's someone else's).

 

The NHS for example is top-heavy with superfluous levels of management that benefit the patients not one jot:

 

NHS management increasing five times faster than number of nurses

 

The number of managers in the NHS in England rose by nearly 12% last year - more than five times the rate at which qualified nurses were recruited, sparking concerns that cash was being diverted from frontline staff.

 

Despite claims that NHS bureaucracy has been cut the health service has seen an explosive growth in management. The survey shows that the NHS now employs 44,660 managers and senior managers - an annual average increase in their employment of 6.3% over the last decade. This is faster growth than consultants, doctors, nurses and midwives.

 

LINK

 

Perhaps this is something that ought to be addressed? Or do you want to put the blinkers on and carry on as normal, like Greece did? I wonder what public services are like there at the moment? It all catches up with you eventually you know.

 

 

shouldn't these people be checking on their relatives themselves or are they only in it for the inheritance?

 

Ahhhh, leave it all to the state, it's got plenty of cash*, it can take over family responsibilities. Visiting relatives takes up valuable takeaway eating and sofa sitting time.

 

 

 

 

 

(*Oh, wait, it hasn't has it?)

[1ofTheseDays 10]

Definitely the ill and disabled, particularly people with mental health problems. People don't seem to understand what a 25% cut in public funding is going to look like. The social care system is already at breaking point, and these cuts are going to tip it over the edge. When people start finding out that their elderly relatives have been found dead in their homes because there's been no money to pay someone to go and check on them, it's going to get very ugly. I hope those people feel empowered to take matters into their own hands when that happens.

 

Are you for real or what?

[Tony 10]

Sadly we will all suffer during this Parliament thanks to the last Parliament. Those with least will suffer equally but the pain will be felt deeper by them since they have less to give.

 

It's a mess.

[Wildcat 10]

Sadly we will all suffer during this Parliament thanks to the last Parliament. Those with least will suffer equally but the pain will be felt deeper by them since they have less to give.

 

It's a mess.

 

The wealthy don't rely on the services that are taking 80% of the hit.

 

PollyToynbee was quoting figures the poor will suffer 12 times more than the rich.

[Bedders 10]

The questions people should be asking themselves is....WHY have the present parliament got to make the cuts that will make people suffer? Because of the last administration (Government)!!!!