PoliticsUK: House of Lords: Baroness discusses the unequal burden the new budgetary cuts will apportion to the poor

Hansard is a daily publication of Britain's Parliament.  Steve Bishop in his own daily presents Hansard's transcription from the House of Lords for Nov1,2k10 [Nov 2k10 (pt OOO3).  I found a passage in which Baroness Gould of Potternewton gives her verbal analysis of how the budgetary cuts of the new Coalition govt (Tories and Lib Democrats) will affect the most vulnerable in British society.

My Lords, it gives me enormous pleasure to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Healy of Primrose Hill, on her very thoughtful and excellent maiden speech. I should also like to add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Nye, for it must be a unique occasion to be able to welcome two such good friends -- both of whom I have known for more than 30 years.

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Fairness, we were told earlier today, runs through the heart of the Government's decision-making. I make no apology for repeating that there is certainly no fairness to poor families, pensioners, women or the disabled in either the emergency Budget in June or in the comprehensive spending review. It is difficult to comprehend how, using the Treasury's own figures, it can admit that the poorest 10 per cent of the population will bear the brunt of the cuts, and then have the audacity to say that that is fair.

-- EconoMix

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