Totally unsurprising if you've been following previous reporting on Universal Credit and disabled people's lives in the UK. It's so dispiriting to watch from the outside, and I can't imagine what...
Totally unsurprising if you've been following previous reporting on Universal Credit and disabled people's lives in the UK. It's so dispiriting to watch from the outside, and I can't imagine what it's like to live it.
The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity, the United Nations poverty envoy has found.
Philip Alston, the UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, ended a two-week fact-finding mission to the UK with a stinging declaration that despite being the world’s fifth largest economy, levels of child poverty are “not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster”.
Totally unsurprising if you've been following previous reporting on Universal Credit and disabled people's lives in the UK. It's so dispiriting to watch from the outside, and I can't imagine what it's like to live it.