“Surely the greatest burning injustice of all is children having to go to school ill-clad and hungry.” Gordon Brown Universal Credit was advertised as making work pay and empowering those on low incomes but in fact two-thirds of poor children are now in families where someone is working.
Universal Credit is harsh by design and cruel in its intention. Inside the castle walls there was much eating, drinking and merriment whilst the poor outside succumbed to starvation. A National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed that Universal Credit is not value for money and may even cost more than the benefit system it …