Tuesday 13 July 2010

The Issue of the Conservatives Coalition Government Thinking about Possibly Cutting Benefits

I read and received today, a circular email from my local female Conservative MP, who said that she was holding a meeting soon about joblessness and deprivation in this local area, although she said that there were however plenty of jobs in the public sector in this local area (which I just don’t know how true or not that statement is), and she also mentioned that high numbers of people were claiming incapacity benefit in this local area too.

She didn’t say that she or her government were thinking of, or going to, cut these and other benefits, or that she agreed with doing this, but I’m concerned if this was what she was partly intending in and by her email, because whilst it is true as she pointed out that this country is in debt, there are still rich and poor or so-called class inequalities in this country, with one solution being a redistribution of wealth one way or another, possibly through the tax system.

The local female politician suggested in her circular email, that the benefits system, or aspects of it were actually causing, adding to, or making deprivation worse, when if this is the case, we also need other solutions, but cutting benefits with force and state-coercion is not the solution.

People need long-term benefits, if their problems are due to long-term psychological damage, mental health problems which are both biological, genetic, and environmental, and if their incapacity and disabilities are physical and incurable.

I agree with her that there is a problem, if people’s incapacity and disabilities are just caused by deprivation, and if they have been forced and wrongly state-coerced into the benefits system, without choices and options of well or decent paid jobs and/or further education for skills, and without any social support.

However, things and these matters are not that simple, as people’s incapacity and disabilities, can be a combination of many different conditions and factors, and I hope that she realises and takes these things into account, before, during, and after her meeting, which I will be interested to hear from her what conclusions she has come to about all this for her self and with others, including her own personal perspective.

Whilst I have sometimes and only voted Labour, - and if I do vote again, it will more than likely be for the Labour Party again, if they progress, and if they also put a stop to their own policies and psychological behaviours of force and misused state-coercion - I take some interest in this local female Conservative MP, because she does seem genuinely concerned about joblessness and deprivation, and she also has some very good principles against force and misused state-coercion, but she also needs to realise the different mechanisms and misuses of force and misused state-coercion, be consistent and coherent in her principles and policy intentions on this, see the full-picture, and be somewhat self-critical about her own political party if they are also intending to do this.

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