Salma Yaqoob confronts George Iain Duncan Smith on austerity in BBC Question Time, Thursday 12th June 2014.
She said, There are 13 million people in this country who are now below the poverty line, 1 million people in one of the richest countries in the world now face the indignity of relying on food banks... these are very real issues and it's been done in the name of austerity and we've had this drive of people being called scroungers but actually half the people on benefits are pensioners... and 50% of people claiming benefits are in work because the wages are not paying enough; and yet I am sitting next to Lain Duncan Smith who quite happily labels the poor people as scroungers when you claim 30 pounds just for breakfast like you can't afford your own breakfast, when you live on your wife's estate and have taken 1.5 million pounds of tax payer's money, that's what I call scrounging, that's what I call shirking.
Mr. Smith is a British Conservative Party politician, current Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
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