Poor should not be made to pay for bankers mistakes


According to the Mirror’s leader-writer:

A political consensus is building that cuts in some public services will be needed to get debt under control.

But to rob the poor to pay for the mistakes of bankers is grotesquely unfair.

The Government should ditch immediately half-baked proposals to claw back up to £60 a month from tenants on housing benefit who find cheaper homes.

Labour won power to make the poor better off, not poorer. If the Cabinet is looking for spending cuts, it should start by axing expensive identity cards and Trident’s replacement.