Iain Duncan Smith: Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week.

We don’t normally get political in a direct way like this at Your Llanelli, but I think everyone should join this petition, even if you agree with the cuts to benefits and the new systems of payments being implemented by Ian Duncan Smith.

It would do all of the cabinet some good to see how ordinary folk have to live, those unlucky enough to be forced to live on state entitlements who have to struggle on considerably less than £53 a week know how hard it is.  We think IDS should know too.

This petition calls for Iain Duncan Smith, the current Work and Pensions Secretary, to prove his claim of being able to live on £7.57 a day, or £53 a week.

On Monday’s Today Programme David Bennett, a market trader, said that after his housing benefit had been cut, he lives on £53 per week. The next interviewee was Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who was defending the changes. The interviewer then asked him if he could live on this amount. He replied: “If I had to, I would.”

This petition calls on Iain Duncan Smith to live on this budget for at least one year. This would help realise the conservative party`s current mantra that “We are all in this together”.

This would mean a 97% reduction in his current income, which is £1,581.02 a week or £225 a day after tax* [Source: The Telegraph]

Please join me.

Click here to sign Dom’s petition, “Iain Duncan Smith: Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week.”.