Budget admits poorest will be hit hardest
Today George Osborne said:
We are all in this together and all must make a contribution.
Fairness means creating a welfare system that helps the vulnerable, supports people into work, and is also affordable for the working families who pay for it from their taxes.
Except that the CSR report itself contradicts this.
Sky News points out that a chart on page 98 of the official document reveals the bottom 10% of earners will lose the most money from the cuts.
Even taken with the impact of June’s Budget measures, only the very richest bear more of the brunt than the poorest.

Burdz Eye View blogger points out how spending aimed at some of the most marginalised in society is being cut drastically, only to save “paltry” sums.
Update:
Demos point to another graph, also in the budget report, that shows the poorest will be hit hardest by the changes in welfare.

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That’s a graph of income distribution, not poverty – the bottom percentile includes many high net worth/low income people
“ the bottom percentile includes many high net worth/low income people”
And what percentage are we talking here? 50% of ‘poor’ people are HNW individuals perhaps? Maybe we don’t need a welfare state because they’re all just rich landowning gentry really.
“We are all in this together and all must make a contribution” – oh, I do wish he would qualify this assertion by admitting that D-Cam & Co will get along just fine in their insulated bubble.
I mean what sort of personal sacrifice has Ozzie had to make – I’ll bet’s in par with Maudes voluntary work?
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/08/22/tories-want-us-to-volunteer-but-dont-have-time-themselves/
Cheeky buggers?
“that shows the poorest will be hit hardest by the changes in welfare.”
Well, my word, that *is* a surprise, isn’t it?
Welfare is what we give to the poor so as to improve their lives. Therefore, if we cut welfare, it’s going to be the poor welfare is cut from, isn’t it?
This really isn’t rocket science folks…..
@Tim
Maybe you could tell your pals on the Tory front bench that next time they start waffling about “progressive” and “fair” cuts…
I’m all for cutting welfare as long as corporate welfare is cut as well.
It is pretty much confirming what Chris Giles on the FT Money Supply blog and the IFS said back in June that to claim the retrenchment is progressive was nonsense. There is plenty of international evidence that the coalition can point to that says an 80/20 consolidation gets best results. They are actually probably closer to 75/25. However, the progressive narrative should be ridiculed. None of those international studies claim to be progressive, they are concerned with economic efficiency.
Hang on. That bottom graph is ‘changes in benefit in kind as a percentage of 2010-11 consumption of benefits in kind’. It shows that ‘benefit in kind’ (whatever that is – could anyone tell me? I didn’t think HMG handed out free orange juice or sacks of coal any more) will be reduced by up to 9.5%.
Doesn’t actually say that the poorest will be hit hardest. Depends on what these benefits in kind are and who gets them.
The people who ARE going to be nailed are poor pensioners, as their electricity bills double to pay for green fantasies, and as food prices increase. We’ll have more stories about elderly couples trying to keep warm with a one-bar electric fire. But I guess that’s in a good cause.
(Not against low-carbon energy if it’s sensible. India are looking at thorium nuclear reactors, which produce far less long half-life waste than conventional nuclear. The UK used to have one at Winfrith Heath, but uranium reactors were preferred because you can make bombs from the byproducts)
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