Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said in response to Tory Welfare Minister Lord Freud's comparison of people on benefits with corpses in an interview with The House magazine:
"The nasty party is well and truly back.
"Before the summer his boss Iain Duncan Smith had the temerity to
call Remploy workers idlers who did nothing better than sit around
drinking coffee. He sacked over 1,000 of them and only 35 have managed
to find work again.
"He is quite clearly a man in total denial about the pain his
policies are about to cause. Shelter have begged the government to
consider the ‘terrifying reality’ of the damage they are doing. Scope
talk of disabled people facing a tipping point, risking poverty, debt
and isolation.
"This government is next year about to take out billions from
disability help and housing. All to pay for their catastrophic failure
to get Britain back to work, and a 3 billion tax giveaway to Britain's
richest citizens.
"This government's so-called welfare revolution is collapsing around
its ears. The work programme isn't working. Universal Credit has become
universal chaos. Yet Lord Freud's response is to kick people when they
are down and not even pretend to offer a helping hand.
"Lord Freud should be ashamed of himself, and his government should too."
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