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Dear Enter MP/Peers name here
I am writing to ask you to vote against the Introduction of Welfare Cards for those on Welfare in UK. While this is illegal at present (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217101/Iain-Duncan-Smith-No-booze-smart-cards-benefit-claimants-spend-handouts-drugs-alcohol.html), I hope you will be as horrified as claimants are to see the Private Members Bill tabled By MP Alec Shelbrooke.
The arguments for this bill are discriminatory, and will only induce further stigmatisation of claimants leading to a failure to the ‘right to live’ (Article 8 & Article 14 HRA) as others in the UK currently enjoy who are employed. It also will lead to further rises in Crime particularly Hate Crime towards those on benefits.
While the government could argue it is the exception of ‘the economic welfare of the country’ this scheme would cost the taxpayer huge amounts of taxpayers’ money to implement and is NOT value for money. Many claimants who have paid into the welfare state over their years of work life who have found themselves out of work or sick and disabled is social engineering, forcing them to buy goods from government sanctioned suppliers when in many cases goods can be bought cheaper elsewhere. Just for the record flat screen TV’s are the only kind of TV we can buy since analogue ones were deemed bad for environment, and under the forced Digital Switchover many were given Sky boxes or BT Vision, Virgin at a small discount of the original cost of a TV Package, so this is another untruth being bandied about by media and government ministers alike.
This will prevent claimants from ie; enjoying a family meal, buying birthday cards & presents, having a social life like meeting a friend for coffee or going to the pub for an odd drink with friends, buying petrol to get to see friends/ family members not living locally and medical appointments at hospitals and access to public transport.
This is a National disgrace and outrage that the state should dictate a person’s life for some, while majority UK enjoy all the freedoms afforded to them given the UK does not have the social issues many other countries face.
I feel the introduction of this will reflect badly around the world that the UK which prides itself on fairness and justice, to oppress it citizens like this based on a false ideology of ‘Scroungers & Skivers’.
I hope you will vote against this bill to stop anymore hardship falling on those who have the misfortune to be unable to work or find employment, and god forbid you fall into a position in life where you are in a claimants shoes.
Yours Faithfully
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