Those trying to justify Labours cuts by saying “well, those people will be back in work soon” need to realise MANY ON UC ARE IN WORK. They’re subsidised by welfare because their employers don’t pay enough and probably make huge profits whilst evading tax as the “party of workers” looks the other way
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This was 3 years ago, no financial award or anything, tories removed it in 2018 for new claimants, a complete waste of time
1 no company can layoff/fire staff if company still records profit post tax.
2 no company can pay bonuses or dividends till after staff costs have been paid post tax.
3 double wages straight across the board with further 2.5% above inflation annually.
They didn't hide their intentions.
Purge the left/genocide/spend 2 years telling everyone they were the new tories.
There was clues.
At some point one of them needs to realise there are more employees than there are employers
People would still need to be confirmed as citizens, payment methods verified, problem solving. You'd need non-digital channels for citizens (even UC has these).
And some people WANT job/career support.
I don't think it's unhealthy to be skeptical about such things.
It's just a con to target the most vulnerable.
Hence, restricting PIP will do nothing to help disabled people back to work.
However, you’re right, many people on PIP are too disabled to work at all, so this becomes their main source of income.
https://www.gov.uk/pip
The claims process can take up to a year, the application form is 50 pages long, you must gather medical evidence & then attend a health assessment. Many get turned down & have to go to tribunal…
Also, you get no payment until they make a decision to grant you PIP, which could mean a year with no income. You are reassessed yearly/every 2 years.
No employee should need government to subsidise their wages. That’s why this pseudo Tory Government are as bad as the Tory Gov. The minimum wage actually made things worse. Employers used to pay more to attract employees, now they all pay the minimum wage plus UC.
That is a system that doesn’t work.
Worse is that their employers are entitled to tax exemptions and privileges.
Whilst the taxpayer fills the gap.
After 14 yrs of deliberate mismanagement & corruption, we had to get the tories out
Maybe the Lib Dems or Greens would have decided not to hit the disabled like Labour have just done, but they weren't going to get in. Tories or Reform would be even worse.
There were no other options
Labour comms are terrible. What's the reasoning for targeting the disabled & not the rich?
The rich can handle a tax hike & they'd still be rich ffs.
This is horrible, a massive vote loser & will hurt a lot of people.
Banging on about those with the broadest shoulders in opposition and then this ! 🤬
If they are trying to sort the system out, eg winter fuel payments, so it is more targeted to those most in need, fucking communicate this !
Their comms are for dogshit.
Labour comms office 👇
I’m not obsessed with leaders, especially not Starmer, him as an individual had absolutely nothing to do with my decision making.
https://youtu.be/7rhz4s7m4mk?feature=shared
Hitting the poorer end of society is unforgivable
Power cleanses everything.
To them. Not to us.
Less money, less spending, places do less business, they go under, people lose jobs.
Is that not obvious?
I'm 66, and when I see an old guy like me with a daily mail, I feel like punching the selfish old bastard.
#NeverVoteConservative
AND even well qualified and experienced ppl can’t get jobs!! There are very few jobs.
However, people (let’s call them the “comfortables” - who appear to be short circuited in the empathy department…) will only realise what the situation is, when it happens to their family.
It's fudging the issue to do anything else and giving vast profits to unscrupulous companies and their CEOs.
[Tips hat.]
(If not for the damn Tankies I'm sure I'd be a raving Marxist revolutionary now. As is, only the Greens or LibDems seem remotely acceptable.)
https://youtu.be/coprv-_Yrd8?si=1Yk6ZH94DELcp0pI
I’m saying the same as you. Just wanted to stick the money bit in there. As it’s not the only contribution.
Just so sad how humans are being reduced to a line on a spreadsheet.
We need a seismic change but that’s never going to happen, is it.
Just basic human decency would be acceptable but that’s never going to happen, is it?
My heart weeps for the callous way rich people treat us.
The tough choice is to not do that.
I don’t know why there’s not more support for it.
Austerity 2.0 baby!
I’m saying we never got rid of them.
Yes, they have failed when it comes to disabled people IF this comes in, but they have succeeded in so many other areas where the Tories historically failed.
It isn't either, or.
Dragging them back to work focused meetings when working 16+ hours a week is ridiculous based on net pay (that could result in a sanction and pension contributions could drag them into it)
The worker is *not* 'subsidised by welfare'.
The employer is.
But birds of a feather, flock together.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/the-felix-project-london-working-families-food-banks-survey-b1187908.html#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20revealed%20as,the%20first%20time%20this%20year
Four-day working weeks would help. Free breakfasts at school is helping with food and child care costs. Canada rolled out $10/£8 daily child care - another idea. Housing costs have to come down.
on benefits.
Workers on benefits will be no better off even with wage increases and they’ll still have to rely on benefits. That’s just a fact and a scandal in itself. I’m not going to celebrate the status quo like it’s some sort of win.
https://bsky.app/profile/mikeyh71.bsky.social/post/3lle3m3itu22g