Secular Café: Petition IDS to live on £53 a week - 400,000 sigs and counting

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Petition IDS to live on £53 a week - 400,000 sigs and counting Apr 5th 2013, 23:13 Quote: 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. https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...ozc_BbAfiJBBIo

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