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David Cameron says austerity prepared UK to tackle Covid-19

In 2018 the UN's rapporteur found the Government's austerity policies had damaged the fabric of British society.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2020-09-17 09:24
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David Cameron has courted controversy today after suggesting years of austerity under his watch better prepared the UK to tackle the global pandemic.

In an updated foreword for the paperback edition of his memoirs the former PM argued that cuts introduced when he came to power in 2010 did “fix the roof when the sun was shining”.

He added: “Covid-19 was the rainy day we had been saving for.

“Our actions meant that the next but one administration was able to offer an unprecedented package of measures to prop up the economy.

“I sat watching Chancellor Rishi Sunak ’s press conferences thinking how vital it was that we had taken those difficult decisions when we did”

Absolute, diametrically, demonstrably, the opposite, you absolute clown of a man. https://t.co/jlg8a8EePL

— Jack Saundrs ❤? (@jack_saundrs) September 16, 2020

Preparedness

In extracts of his book released today Mr Cameron also admits that while he did try to prep for a pandemic, accusations Britain weren’t fully prepared are “partly accurate”.

He said: “I knew a pandemic would come one day, possibly sooner rather than later.

“That’s why I made it a ‘tier one risk’ at the National Security Council.

“We also established a sub-committee to deal with Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingencies.

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“The accusation – which is partly accurate – is that subsequently not enough was done to prepare specifically for what followed.

“But this is what strategists mean when they talk about ‘known unknowns’.

Austerity damaged “the fabric of British society” 

In 2018 the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, said the UK Government’s austerity policies had entrenched high levels of poverty and inflicted unnecessary misery in one of the richest countries in the world.

Alston concluded that the benefits system, epitomised by Universal Credit, is driven by the desire to get across a simple set of messages that the state “no longer has your back” and that “you are on your own”.

He said: “What goes along with that is a sense that we should make the system as unwelcoming as possible.

“That people who need benefits should be reminded constantly that they are lucky to get anything.

“That nothing will be made easy” and “that sanctions should be harsh, should be immediate and should be painful”.

Related: PMQs Sept 16th – Rayner reins in Johnson and milks him dry

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