I look at the world through the eyes of the least well off, even if I am aware that my own circumstances\u00a0are more financially fortunate.<\/p>\n
Today's budget will leave very large numbers of disabled people, and their families and carers, much worse off. That is the stated intention.<\/p>\n
And today's budget will, by seriously cutting the business rates income that is to now fund local authority services, threaten the future of many social services on which a great many people rely.<\/p>\n
At the same time the children of parents well enough off to be able to save \u00a34,000 a year for them will be given a straightforward gift of \u00a31,000 a year in the new younger person's ISA scheme.<\/p>\n
Think of it as a subsidy to the school fees.<\/p>\n
Or as a contribution towards the cost of going to university for the very wealthiest that the rest will never get.<\/p>\n
Think of it as a deliberate increase in inequality in this country.<\/p>\n
Think of it as something we simply cannot afford to do when so many other children live in poverty, and yet will be doing none the less.<\/p>\n
And hope that a big enough stink might end this planned gross injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"