Mark Isherwood
Welsh Labour was today accused of revelling in poverty and deliberately using misleading figures to influence public opinion on the UK Government’s benefit reforms.
Today, the Welsh Government published figures claiming that every Welsh family is on average £500 worse off due to UK Government changes to benefits. It worked out the figures by dividing the total reduction in welfare spending by the working age population.
Mark Isherwood AM, Shadow Minister for Local Government, Communities & Housing, said:
“These are deliberately misleading figures from Welsh Labour – the party of welfare dependency – which wants to keep people from deprived communities dependent on the state rather than helping them out of poverty.
“Labour Ministers are revelling in poverty in pursuit of their own narrow party political interests rather than supporting positive measures to make work pay and help people into skilled employment.
“Hardworking people in Wales are better off as a result of tax decisions taken by Conservatives in government, who have cut income tax for a million people and taken 13,000 out of tax altogether.
“To crudely manipulate figures to suggest that ordinary hardworking families are losing out from reductions in welfare spending, which spiralled out of control under Labour, is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.”
