Image: Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake' has highlighted the reality of government 'help' for sick and disabled people.
The original political rationale for cuts is now out the window. The last Chancellor, George Osborne, told us unprecedented ‘welfare reform’ cuts were needed to balance the books in an era of ‘austerity’. But new Chancellor Philip Hammond has repeatedly told us that ‘austerity’ is now at an end, despite – or perhaps because of – the financial uncertainty created by Brexit.
So are the kind of damaging and often arbitrary cuts to social security that disabled people have been highlighting over the last six years, likely to come to an end?
