This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
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This strategic incompetence will cost them dearly
Someone seems to have short circuited their logic processors...
can be forgiven, ever.
Why would you??
Ahh..sorry, it was all 4D- chess
Austerity didn't work for 14 years. Believing it will work if you're only that bit more cruel is immoral.
I feel so little is known about Long Covid, it must feel really hard to get help.
https://bsky.app/profile/peterstefanovic.bsky.social/post/3llcghotlik24
https://bsky.app/profile/electionmaps.uk/post/3llfjxuntxc2r
This is what it wanted, a fascist regime.
It cheers on fascists, and head choppers.
And people wonder why Scotland wants out...
Where are the old hands who should be stepping in & stopping all this nonsense?
Righty ho...
The new left has new momentum
https://join.greenparty.org.uk/
for Real Hope, Real Change, Real Social Justice
There can be no real change while supporting capitalism.
It's just hollow words.
I'll wait.
So our vocabulary and paradigms are quite different. I think in practice we advocate for a similar kind of society though.
But you're very welcome to make your own choices of course!
Still liberal, and a waste of space.
I very much doubt he will be starved or isolated.
I was more concerned under the Tories.
My comment was about my own disabled son and how I feel about all of this. I am very confident he will not be affected, along with the majority of disabled people.
In Canada, we don’t label anyone as a disabled person.
We use persons with disabilities, as it emphasizes, the person 1st, & the disability 2nd, promoting a more inclusive and respectful approach.
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD
Unfortunately, it is always healthcare that suffers from systemic shortage of funds
After 40 yrs, I am still fighting
In unity✊
In hospital a week later after having 4 seizures in a row including 1 in the ambulance and 1 in hospital. On 18 tablets a day like a zombie but fit to work, yeah right, it's just cruel. Tax billionaires
And good to see you on here. Followed.
At least we in Scotland have the SNP, but what real choice do those in engerland have?
Hopefully the Greens get a great boost in the locals and Labour take a hammering, their electability is the only thing you can challenge them with sadly.
I will never ever trust them again.
'Labour' is now a second Tory party. They might as well cross the aisle in the House Of Commons and sit with the Tories and be done with it. They're all the same now.
Knee jerk reaction wait and see
Labour are pressuring via regulators to allow transphobic hate speech in universities under the guise "free speech must be protected". Presumably racists and the "R" word etc will be allowed too?
People will die on the back of this policy
It is immoral and is being wrapped up as helpful.
Disingenuous bullshit!!
It will be their legacy!
It will be a vote loser and will only help Reform!
There is no longer a Labour Party!
https://bsky.app/profile/swanjenn.bsky.social/post/3llcd7qevkc2q
I was so wrong.
Aye, mate.
Cheers, Roger
Remember Atlee, Bevin, Benn, Foot, Smith.
"So raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its shade we live or die
Though cowards flinch
And traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here"
46 years of Tory rule must end.
Though, as I remember it, the description was given to the geography teacher.
Michael Foot was of his time. Some of the things he said about Tories apply to Labour now.
Hugh Gaitskell was even worse.
I think that Labour's problems have been because they evolved too far from their raison d'etre.
When John Smith died, Labour thought that they needed to move right 'to get elected'.
They have been moving further ever since.
They need a new vision to regenerate the country.
the government
remind me what happened to the Tories after they tripled tuition fees?
they got a majority
Severely disabled people will still receive PIP
Dont you think this is mild compared to what the tories would have done?
It is certainly true of the WFA situation because had there been 1 single case it would have been on the front page of every newspaper
It was a small change and for the vast majority of people made no diffence
I am more than willing to discuss OAP budgets if you wish
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man-self-harms-in-public-and-dies-after-losing-pip-but-dwp-silent-on-30-years-of-safeguarding-failures/
The moral outrage is off the scale.
People seem to be living in some sort of bubble where they think a magic wand can be waved and it’ll all be perfect. Where’s the reality in that??
The proposals are just that, yet to ne implemented and may not apply to existing claims
We don’t need money over and above what everyone needs. We need tolerance and understanding of how our condition affects working conditions. That’s it.
Imagine if a Deputy Prime Minister had promised to abolish tuition fees when next elected to government; won with a *huge* majority, and then didn't abolish tuition fees?...
https://x.com/angelarayner/status/1204015883347275778
suffered the biggest loss for decades, and was careful to not repeat that pledge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7928436.stm
remember £28bn per year to create a green economy? - is ANYTHING left of that money now? - instead we have more airport runways and they keep trying for more oil drilling
This Labour Party is actually as Right as the Conservative Party at the mo.
At the last Election the Conservatives where replaced by Plastic Conservatives.
the very service a large number of them rely on?
The cuts to disability plays into Reform
seriously?
The cuts play into Reform's agenda by validating a narrative that the most vulnerable in our society are sponging and scrounging off the rest of us simply because theyare lazy, and need to be punished.
If that's what you want, that's fine
If you ever think Davey would be a credible PM then good luck to you
Those who vote Reform are angry 😡 with the system and Reform will use people
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/glossary/M/#modern-monetary-theory
And a primer on money creation:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/glossary/M/#money-creation
I encourage you to follow
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social I’m sure he has noted in an article that the BoE tacitly accepts the MMT description of money creation in their own documentation; they just don’t use the term MMT.
Direct from the school of Farage politics.
How does that equate to “starved”?
What’s wrong with you?
This performative nonsense before it happens is pathetic.
Not to mention the fact that earning a wage and not having enough money to eat properly are not mutually exclusive.
I can't help hoping for a last-minute change among Labour higher-ups, the ostensible good guys... If I've overstepped by writing, I apologize; I wish you well.
Least the fascists are honest about killing disabled, and do it quicker.
I've been voting Green for four years as they're the only left wing party in England.
All their MPs have also been speaking about the benefit cuts
@greenparty.org.uk
Oh no, just that all there corporate paymasters tell em so.
When you buy out every party member of any colour it won't matter what you "vote" for.
Democracy killed by the dying excess off Capatilism.
Long live the king! Oh wait up....
#NeverForgiveNeverForget
#LabourClassTraitors
#TaxTheBloodyRich
A few buffers and puffers
That’s it
1. Community organising
2. Unionisation
3. Voting for other left parties - I support #PlaidCymru
#EndTheUnion
How many times do you need to be told? What evidence will you accept?
There are 4 yrs to the next GE - I reckon other events will be more significant in the historic record, and in terms of influencing events by then
The TUC & Unions are knee deep in this.They funded & enabled this bunch of corrupt Tories to lie & lie, & deliver a hostile takeover of the Party
Labour values & aspirations -torn apart & all gone😡 Evil.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a government that actually listened to its voters, and not their multimillionaire advisors.
Another question: Why aren't employers doing more to make their jobs more accessible to disabled people?
Secondly, if they have cars, it’ll be easier to find and get to work. Lastly, there are job shortages everywhere. Who tf knows why these ppl aren’t working
And you may not have directly said the poor shouldn’t get new cars, but you’ve implied it. And you keep doing so.
It's the Billionaires who take their money and move it into offshore tax havens, where it does NOTHING (except gather interest for the billionaire). You literally can't get more inactive than that!
I don't even want to get into the Social and Moral ramifications on that - but from a purely economic perspective it's absolutely ridiculous.
Do you maybe want to think before posting such ableist shit?
The only inactive thing around here appears to be your brain cell and compassion.