Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 3 October 2017.
Well, we’ll continue to make those representations, but we’ll have to get in a queue. I mean, their own MPs are saying that the roll-out should be stopped. If I could sum up the attitude of the Conservative Government, it would be this: lessen the financial burden on the rich—cut tax—and increase the financial burden on the poorest—getting rid of tax credits, the bedroom tax, universal credit. We know, of course, that on top of that they do these things incompetently, and that’s what the current roll-out of universal credit is doing. The leader of the opposition finds it funny. When we talk about welfare, he finds it funny. Well, why doesn’t he go and talk to people who are affected by this? Why doesn’t he go and talk to people about the threat of homelessness? Why doesn’t he go and talk to people who find themselves in a position where they’re going into rent arrears? Then he might learn what real life is actually about. Because we deal with these issues on a regular basis, on a constituency basis, and we see the inhumanity of universal credit, along with so many other of the policies developed by a Conservative Government that benefit only the richest.