Ministers must ditch cruel plan to raid disabled kids’ support to plug self-inflicted £20billion black hole
Children first
MINISTERS insist that a review of school care plans for special needs children isn’t about saving money.
The parents of disabled children fear that, in reality, it is much more of a cost-cutting exercise than a proper rebuilding of the system.
They have every reason to be worried, not least because of the battles many have been forced to fight with local councils over the years to get proper support.
What is plain for all to see is that the Government, after the welfare debacle of last week, risks falling into an almighty new row.
We know ministers are desperate to save cash — they are staring into a self-inflicted black hole of at least £20billion after the U-turns on benefits reform and winter fuel, along with other woes.
But, instead of looking at areas of shameful waste or incompetence, it is apparently vulnerable children they have in their sights.
Has it not occurred to Number Ten just how awful it would look to tip further billions into housing asylum seekers in hotels, or to fail to get a grip on still rampant waste by diversity-obsessed town halls, while penny-pinching from disabled kids?
Voters are enraged enough already by the many existing examples of unfairness which are being inflicted upon them.
Wealth stealth
CAN Labour’s long-held instincts of class envy really lead them to bring in a damaging and pointless wealth tax?
To the Left, soaking the rich always sounds good.
But in practice, it merely drives away the income creators who are crucial to our economy — and ends up costing the Government money.
In France, it was abandoned after 60,000 fled, costing the country around £4billion in lost revenue.
Britain has already lost more millionaires in the last year — over 16,000 — than any country in the world as a result of our sky-high taxes.
Not only do these people drive growth, the top one per cent of earners also pay 29 per cent of UK income tax.
Like all socialist ideas, a punitive tax on the rich simply won’t work.
The Prime Minister should bin it.
On our own
FRANCE’S much lauded “one-in, one-out” illegal migrant exchange plan with Britain is being held up because it may breach EU laws.
While Britain is free to do a deal, the European Commission says Paris must abide by its shared border agreements.
It shows that — plus ça change — Britain can’t simply rely on help from France.
We must come up with our OWN proper working deterrent.
