It says a lot about the Conservative Party that they have nominated for a knighthood the very man who oversaw the significant cuts to benefit and disability entitlements during the peak of the Conservative-led austerity period.
To the credit of the British public, tens of thousands of people have signed an online petition demanding that Iain Duncan Smith be stripped of his knighthood, less than 24 hours after the announcement was made he would receive it.
The petition, 'Iain Duncan-Smith should not receive a Knighthood', has received 65,000 signatures at the time of writing with the MP labelled as: 'responsible for some of the cruelest most extreme welfare reforms this country has ever seen.'
Duncan-Smith was also responsible for introducing the Universal Credit system which has causing hardship to millions by restructuring the benefits system and leaving 2 million people losing out by more than £1,000 a year according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
That he also introduced a botched system of assessing people for disability payments, it is disgraceful that Boris Johnson is rewarding him for his cruelty but this is the Nasty Party and you know that significantly cutting payments to the disabled was very well received in the Conservatives, it is what they do, so no surprise really and with Boris Johnson having a free hand for the next five years, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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