The “relentless campaign” against people in receipt of benefits “has to stop,” Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Colly Kelly has said.
Sinn Fein Cllr Colly Kelly
He said “In recent weeks, we have seen a relentless campaign by the Tory party to attack the benefits system at every opportunity with daily front pages stories, TV programmes and media sound bites.
“In many cases it has been open season by sections of the right wing press in Britain to demonise people who are quite rightly entitled to benefits, as somehow being to blame for the current economic crisis.”
Cllr Kelly concluded: “It’s very easy to pick on the disabled, the single mothers and the low paid, but at the same time avoid tackling the fat-cat bankers and city traders who have left everyone in this current financial crisis. The demonising of people who receive some of benefits needs to stop.”
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