The United Nations (UN) has urged Keir Starmer to scrap the controversial two-child limit and reverse the five-week wait for universal credit in a warning that the UK government is infringing human rights with the ongoing poverty crisis @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The United Nations (UN) has urged Keir Starmer to scrap the controversial two-child limit and reverse the five-week wait for universal credit in a warning that the UK government is infringing human rights with the ongoing poverty crisis
@bigissue.com
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-benefits-two-child-limit-un-uk-poverty/

Comments

avultink.bsky.social•2 days ago

He should. Dutch fell on childbenefit irs scandal. Don't go that route.

linusd.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m with the IN

allenbrown.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s so generous. How will the UN be funding this?

birdswing.bsky.social•2 days ago

so the UK government under Starmer is infringing human rights, be interesting to see what the Labour defenders say

skembear.bsky.social•2 days ago

The warning signs were there from 2020. It's growth at any cost, sadly the cost will be shouldered by the most vulnerable. Its quite telling that they can listen to the 'concerns' of the wealthy, but ignore or worsen the lives of the poor and vulnerable
#LabourDemocide

ilovebrews.bsky.social•2 days ago

Labour is no different from the Tories at this point, and may even be worse.

This is the wrong direction for the Labour party.

There is an increasing appetite in this country for progressive socialist policies, and Starmer doesn't get it.

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•2 days ago

👏👏👏

elenathomas.bsky.social•2 days ago

Come on Starmer… behave like a proper LABOUR politician…

marcwintermute.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm sure the UN will provide the requisite funding to enable that...

50swoman.bsky.social•1 day ago

UK Government has ignored UN's "urges" before.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/24/un-poverty-expert-hits-back-over-uk-ministers-denial-of-facts-philip-alston

dazzleem.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry, don’t wish to be controversial but I don’t want to fund uncontrolled breeding

ajq1968.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s time the multi millionaires and billionaires paid their fare share if they want to live in an “nice” country, time to clamp down to tax avoidance and evasion instead of punitive punishment for the just about managing or worse

ajq1968.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sorry fair not fare, wishing for an edit button here

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•2 days ago

100%

We need to tax the wealthiest.

brightonbike.bsky.social•2 days ago

I feel safe with Starmer as PM. The Tory PMs never had it.

scepticpirate.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unpopular thought….. if you can’t afford children why are you having them? Just asking.

msocsci.bsky.social•2 days ago

What are you on this for. That's a question a cunt would ask. There's many reasons people have kids. Sometimes circumstances change leaving people struggling. Now fuck off back to twitter you cunt.

scepticpirate.bsky.social•2 days ago

😂😂😂 I love a debate. I believe that the point of bsky is to have open an honest discourse. If your best come back is that I suggest you go back to twitter (which I’ve never been on) then I suspect you have missed the point.

msocsci.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's no debating a cunt. You don't have the empathy or intellectual capacity to understand that you cunt.

scepticpirate.bsky.social•1 day ago

😂

deborah122.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Guardian - 26 Feb 2025 — Parents of under-fives could be exempted from the government's two-child benefit limit under a range of options UK ministers are considering . A step in the right direction?

mlco.bsky.social•2 days ago

Two child limit us fine
No violation

rantover.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/bladeofthes.bsky.social/post/3ljsvnhyne225

4bogs.bsky.social•2 days ago

Scrap Trident.

aliciawest.bsky.social•1 day ago

This should have been the very first thing they did.

stevemortlock.bsky.social•2 days ago

The two child cap was introduced by the Tories, were the UN not interested then?

lucyjordache.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you have more than two kids that were born before 2019 I believe, you still get it. Born after that then you don’t. And it should stay that way. Apart from people who have fallen on hard times, why would you have more than two kids if you can’t afford them and expect to
Claim for them.