Political Penguin

Couldn’t quite believe this one from but that’s what it would seem.

So according to the Philip Hammond the Tories work and pensions spokesman, it’s a disgrace the amount of money that is being paid out to dead people when it could be given to those families and pensioners who are experiencing real hardship.

This begs an interesting question. If the Tories do truly believe that there is hardship in the UK and that pensioners and people on benefit and no doubt even those on low incomes are experiencing this to such a degree then they by definition would wish to do something about it assuming they’re not going to be honest and admit they really don’t give a toss about the poor.

So that would be an increase in benefit payments, pensions and who knows, maybe even a good upping of the minimum wage.

Am I just the cynical sod that doesn’t think this likely to happen under a Tory administration.

There is a serious point to this though. The loss of a loved one, a parent or even a child is a truly heart-wrenching experience. I can quite imagine that in the context of that situation, the last thing on a relatives mind would be to call up the DWP to stop all the benefits/pension.

I know it’s