"If you can work, you should work." That's the message from the Conservatives this morning, as they unveil plans to cut benefits by 30% for some people who remain out of work. Those affected would have their money loaded onto a new "Back To Work" card, blocking spending on... alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, as well as cash withdrawals. The Conservatives say the plan could affect 350,000 claimants and save more than half a billion pounds a year.show more

BARONESS BENEFITS AKA KEMI BADENOCH £144k a year, but taxpayers cover her rent, energy, water bills, internet everything!

How about curbing the MP’s benefits. They earn over £90,000 and still want the taxpayer to fund meals and offices.

@KemiBadenoch you are funny 🤣 ! We have 1.78m unemployed and 700,000 jobs. Maths not your strong suit? And as for your ‘benefits card scheme’ - how much will that cost to implement? Based on @Conservatives last stint in office you did as about as well as @UKLabour today.

Why do the Tories always target the least well off? It's like they replaced their fox hunting with hunting down the poor 🙄

My Partner works in a School and there are children who come in starving from not being fed while the parents are smoking their heads off!! Good idea is you ask me

Kemi made it very clear that they are NOT talking about people who physically or mentally cannot work. These are people who could work but for some reason choose not to. Most employers are very flexible these days and are happy to adapt tasks and hours to peoples' needs.

Maybe we should take a longer deeper look into the scrounging MP’s that claim for everything get booze and meals at cheap prices whilst ‘at work’ all coming out of us taxpayers money

She can look into her own poncing mps

So basically it’s a way of tracking every penny spent 😳

The tories incl kemi b is def anti people who are disabled and benefits there policy would not only affect those who can work. It will affect those like myself who cant in ways u cant imagine reduction in payments will put disabled going backwards once again

The tories and there leader should hold there heads in shame there policy would plunge those who cant work into piverty once again torys will never change there only for the rich and those who can prosper those like myself will be put on the scrap heap.

Did you ask Badenoch about her enormous tax paid expenses . Badenoch & Whately both have a lot to say about benefits , but they both milk the country with their expenses claims

"There's been an explosion in welfare" shrieks Ms Reid Government spending on welfare as a percentage of GDP is lower today than it was 10 years ago. When will you be clarifying this for viewers ? Facts matter.

why don't she stop ofgem ripping people on there electricity and scap the standing charges

@edballs @susannareid100 @ranvir01 @kategarraway Says Tory Charlatans who tanked economy, decimated every public service, wasted 10bn on useless PPE & caused 25k excess deaths! They’ve never been held to account, are on £90k plus & expenses & subsidised dining against £98 pw.

In that case, if you can work, you should be given a job that pays a proper living wage. Then you won’t need UC that is currently subsidising cheap labour costs and allowing companies to make more profit.

Stupid idea & very costly too. We need UBI not sound bytes on how to divide the people. There's only 700,000 jobs available PT/FT can they confirm in detail? Nearly 2 million unemployed that we know of as not all out of work claim, the maths don't match the rhetoric.

Work in the UK gets you no where and private pensions are a con too.

Who,s ass she gonna pull all these jobs out of ,, more places closing down than job offers

Yes yes yes

Someone please give kemi some vouchers for lynx africa cause she stinks 😊

If you can pay tax then you should pay tax, that’s our message to Tory tax avoiders.

How about these politicians pay their own way instead of leeching off us taxpayers

Ah but you get more on benefits and it’s tax free. Win win

Denying people cash is problematic. Pint of milk down the corner shop with a minimum spend for non-cash transactions? Transactions that accept cash only? I like the principle, but it feels a bit nanny state controlling where people spend.

Why do they need a card and a 30% cut to stop buying of alcohol? Who is going to afford any pleasure with a 30% cut?

Can’t imagine someone so hard up on benefits would waste money on cigarettes, no wait my higher rate tax on my pension after working for 50 years pays for them…. Phew

I was waiting for her to say we will stop sending billions to that crook in Ukraine