Nigel Farage’s Reform is prioritising pints over the welfare of children - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Mike Baldwin, Raven Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield.
Great news guys - Nigel Farage's Reform UK are to take 5p off the price of a pint. How are they going to do this? Well, they're going to reverse the removal of the two-child benefit cap that the Labour government is introducing in April.
True, Reform's policy is going to throw 450,000 children into poverty, but who cares? Certainly not our Nigel, man of the people, who no doubt will be seen grinning with his pint in the local before the May elections.
Reform's policy to reverse the removal of the two-child benefit cap has been confirmed by their new Treasury spokesperson, the sacked Tory Robert Jenrick. So what are Robert Jenrick's skills with finance?
Well, in 2020 as Communities Secretary, he rushed through a planning permission for property developer, former pornographer and Tory donor Richard Desmond, saving him £50m in council charges.
Following a High Court judgement, Jenrick was forced to accept that his approval was unlawful. Also in 2020, Jenrick's own department granted his Newark constituency £25m from the Towns Fund despite more deprived and deserving constituencies being refused funds.
Throwing 4,500 children into poverty confirms the same cruel and callous disregard that Jenrick showed in 2023, as Minister for Immigration, when he instructed the painting over of cartoons on the walls of a child asylum centre in Kent, describing them as 'too welcoming'.
Do we really think these people are fit to run the country? Would you really want to vote for them?