I can't even.
How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty?
Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.
How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty?
Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.
Comments
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/12/labour-benefits-tories-labour-rachel-reeves-welfare
" ... poverty is probably the most researched issue in social science ... there’s not much we don’t know about the scale and roots of impoverishment and deprivation, or the potential impact of different policy levers".
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/labour-lacks-a-strategy-to-cut-poverty-and-inequality/
My view is if they want to erase my kind and be horrible to people and children they're coming over the cliff too.
Let's see who blinks first.
Their defining characteristic is timidity.
Numbers here
Constrained by Westminster's financial controls,
We have the Scottish Child Payment, described as 'a game changer' by anti-poverty charities,
Scotland's Government will cancel Labour's two-child cap next year.
Imagine how much more we could do with #ScottishIndependence
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/50140-public-support-retaining-the-two-child-benefit-limit-as-starmer-gears-up-for-first-rebellion
“Keir Starmer has told cabinet ministers that he wants to scrap the two-child benefit cap and has asked the Treasury to identify ways to fund the plan”
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/starmer-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap-as-treasury-told-to-find-money
They need to go back to their Manifesto, stop deviating and punishing the weak and vulnerable.
https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielzucman.bsky.social/post/3lpuhc3leec2t
It's been this way since the day after they won the GE and explains not only the 'winter fuel payment' fiasco but the overall timidity of their policies.
They run scared of the power of the billionaire class.