EVER heard the joke about the politician who said those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden?

Or the one who said cutting the 50p tax rate for millionaires actually saves the country money?

George Osborne is an even worse stand up comic than he is a chancellor. He makes Ebenezer Scrooge seem a kind and benevolent soul.

With one stroke of his scythe he has sliced £14 bn off the benefits bill thereby punishing Britain’s poorest families for his own inept mistakes.

Many of welfare payments are being capped at one per cent for the next three years, when we all know inflation is three times that figure.

Child benefit has been frozen until 2014 and tax credits have been picked from the pockets of the working poor.

From next April, a young person claiming £56.25 job seeker’s allowance will get an increase of just 56p a week.

On the very same day, millionaires will also receive an increase of £813.36 a week, courtesy of the coalition’s tax cut.

Stephen Dixon, Redcar.