Readers say the withdrawal of the £20 uplift has to be resisted and that many of those affected have already suffered disproportionately
The threat of the withdrawal of the £20 uplift to universal credit is weighing heavily on the consciences of very many of us (The universal credit cut is outrageous, but this callousness is nothing new, 22 September). But I feel helpless. I have written to my MP, who says that he and his colleagues “will continue to press the government to think again”. Unobjectionable but clearly ineffective.
Is the opposition so cowed that it cannot effectively demonstrate that it really cares? If words don’t work, isn’t it time to take some action, disrupt parliamentary procedure, organise demonstrations of public solidarity with the most vulnerable people in our society, or even have the courage for civil disobedience? This cruel threat to hurt the poorest people has to be resisted, and if not by the opposition, then by whom? The government is counting on the inability of the victims of their cruelty to organise themselves, and on the docility of opposition parties. How cowardly and despicable.
David Evans
Exeter
