How Iain Duncan Smith lives – compared with people who must live his policies

Posting this because I can.

Here’s Iain Duncan Smith’s weekend place, which was occupied last year by UK Uncut and Disabled People Against Cuts in a protest against the bedroom tax. It’s a very nice pile indeed. It comes with a tennis court, the sort of lake that Mr Darcy might emerge from in clinging pants, happy lambs and a very large house. Very. If you must lie around somewhere thinking of ways to piss the rest of the exchequer away on Universal Credit, then this is the place to do it:

Compare this if you will with the tiny one-room Kilburn flat which I visited on I visited on Monday.

No lakes or tennis courts here, alas. This flat is occupied by a 51-year-old man who is out of work at the moment and must sign on at the local jobcentre. He has been sent on the work programme. He has mild learning difficulties. He has not found a job through the jobentre, even though he has a good work history.

He was very depressed about the flat and it was easy to see why. The room was so small that it was difficult for the four of us who were there to fit into all at once. There was a bed, a broken fridge, a small fridge in the middle of the room that this man had bought to keep his diabetes medication in, and a broken oven. There was a second, smaller oven with two hotplates sitting on top of the broken oven.

There were no windows as such in this room – just a door area that led to a path. The man had complained to his landlord about the mice and cockroaches that live under the broken oven, but nothing had been done.

I’d say We’re All In It Together, except that is getting old. Even as irony it’s getting pretty old.

3 thoughts on “How Iain Duncan Smith lives – compared with people who must live his policies

  1. IDS has consistently lied to the public, obfuscated and over-inflated data, yet he still gets to keep his job. In real life, a worker would have been sacked. Of course, he is most likely doing what is desired by this government. Lie , lie and lie some more.

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