clairethurwood.bsky.social
Musician, classical guitarist, book lover and some politics.
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Well that's interesting. A comfort for the living?
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Looks like it 😪😪😪
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4/ A new ‘right to work’ scheme for those on incapacity benefits so they can try to return to work without risking losing their entitlements.
5/ DWP will spend up to £1bn a year extra on helping people back into jobs, with plans ranging from supportive calls to intensive training programmes.
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2/ More frequent reassessments of PIP claimants, although most severely disabled will never have to be reassessed & will be eligible for an extra allowance.
3/ Basic rate of UC for those looking for - or in - work, will rise but cut for those judged as unfit for work (as incentive to seek work).
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For those angry at this assessment, understand that your anger is a fraction of mine—as the way I came to this conclusion is not defeatism but an awareness that the key decision points for our country began arriving in 2016.
We're in the tenth year of doing nothing.
_That's_ why it's too late now.
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...are somehow, miraculously, held in 2026 and somehow, miraculously, held in a way that they are free and fair and not under new Trump rules.
If that happens and Democrats sweep into power, perhaps an impeachment and removal could somehow happen. But that's a slender reed to hang one's hopes upon.
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Where I differ from others who know Trump and Musk who are saying what I'm saying: I fear it's already too late.
The FBI, DOJ, and DOD are now fully captured entities in the hands of the fascists, and the idea that any movement can overcome them is absurd.
The only prayer left is that elections...
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There's no longer any hope that anyone in the Republican Party will stop them.
Anyone with any conscience in what was formerly the GOP is no longer in any position of influence in the party.
And there's also no evidence more than a handful of Democratic politicians understand how late the hour is.
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Trump and Musk will declare vile pretexts for things they were always going to do. Maybe they'll declare Judge Jackson a DEI hire and say they can ignore 5-4 rulings against them. Maybe they'll get Turley or Yoo to disagree with the Court and say they can go with a supposed legal expert over SCOTUS.
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Everyone must understand where this is headed.
Martial law. Black-bagging. Firing on protesters. Curtailing freedom of assembly. Trump ignoring Congress and judges.
Any politician who doesn't understand that these fascists won't stop, and their destination is predetermined, shouldn't be in office.
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I wrote several books about Trump and organized crime. But more to the point, authors like David Cay Johnston and Wayne Barrett wrote about Trump as a mafioso *in the 1980s*. This was WIDELY known. The question was never "is Trump involved in organized crime?" but "why does the US govt allow it?"