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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Universal Credit Admittedly a Disaster

Amid the ongoing Brexit disaster, Amber Rudd's effective postponement of the Universal Credit roll out has gone largely unnoticed.  She is only extending it to 10,000 claimants rather than three million.  That will be some relief to the people being punished, but it leaves the whole system in a kind of limbo.  It is hard not to see it as another example of Brexit sucking the life out of politics in a way that leaves major problems unanswered.

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