YokoUhOh
"I'll put it another way: who's seeing the benefit of this economic policy? The hundreds of thousands of people using food banks? The families with disabled children who have been devastated by the bedroom tax? The schools which are about to get a 10% cut in funding?"
The Tory-led coalition's record on reducing unemployment is nothing short of remarkable, the vast vast majority of those jobs are full-time and not zero hours contracts. Maybe the now employed people are seeing the benefit? For every public sector job lost via necessary public spending cuts, four private sector jobs have been created.
Families with disabled children are mostly not subjected to the same bedroom tax rules in any case. You are just scare-mongering. www.disabilityrightsuk.org/bedroom-tax
And as for schools who are about to get a 10% cut in funding. I suggest you get your facts and figures from a more reliable source than the front page of the Guardian. Over the course of the last parliament, the coalition government spent very much more on deprived children than their Labour forebears.
From the IFS report (linked to below)
"Even before the pupil premium, there was already a substantial level of funding targeted at deprivation. In 2010–11, funding per pupil was 35% higher amongst the most deprived set of primary schools than amongst the least deprived ones, and it was 41% higher amongst the most deprived secondary schools than amongst the least deprived. By 2014–15, these figures had increased to about 42% and 49%, respectively, as funding per pupil rose more strongly amongst more deprived schools as a result of the pupil premium."
The constraints with school spending over the forthcoming parliament are to do with the increasing numbers in the pupil population. I suggest you read the IFS report below to understand the issues.
election2015.ifs.org.uk/schools