The ‘People Like Us’ campaign has sent an open letter to the three main political parties asking them to concentrate on ‘real people, real families and real children’ in need when debating social security, rather than perpetuating negative stereotypes of benefits claimants.
The letter also invites party leaders to watch a short film entitled ‘It Could Be You’, in which three parents talk about benefits.
Jack, a parent receiving out of work benefits, is shown saying, ‘I think if you make these cuts now, especially where children are concerned, at the very beginnings of their lives, you’ll be picking up the bill for it a couple of decades down the line. Because my son is three years old now, how they can justify making him a little bit colder, a little bit hungrier, and his home a little bit less secure, I don’t know how they can justify it.’
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