Benefit cuts are a 'violation of human rights' which will harm ill and disabled people, government warned www.bigissue.com/news/social-... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Benefit cuts are a 'violation of human rights' which will harm ill and disabled people, government warned

https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/disability-benefit-cuts-human-rights-backlash/

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eagleneedle.bsky.social•11 days ago

How tax does Amazon pay per £100 of earnings compared to someone getting £100 of benefit?

monkeyhead78.bsky.social•11 days ago

Now they’ll start wanting out of ECHR now!

aminaerin.bsky.social•11 days ago

Wow I’d just read this too! Glad you’re calling this out Peter

suzybrew.bsky.social•11 days ago

Relatively few would be prepared to pay more tax to sustain the benefits system. Leaving the benefits system unsustainable would be unforgiveable.

the-mad-guesser.bsky.social•11 days ago

Would the LibDems be doing this or have they now become the U.K. left wing party?

kimmarshall.bsky.social•11 days ago

They did the earlier version of this as a coalition partner, putting anti disability policies in place that were censured by the UN. Other people might have forgotten or forgiven. I haven't.

ilovebrews.bsky.social•11 days ago

Remember the right-leaning Labour MPs who undermined Corbyn in the last two elections?

Well, if you were in any doubt about what these people represent, their masks have now completely slipped.

martandelus.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's almost as if taxing the poor by means of austerity is state overreach, where as there is an untapped oilwell (pun intended) in tax havens is the correct way to deal with societal problems.

Perhaps it really isn't a good idea to be doing what they seem intent on doing.

alandw58.bsky.social•10 days ago

Violates safeguarding on at least two counts

depressedandsick.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yup. Just as is snooping on bank accounts. @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social

kevinwardrop.bsky.social•11 days ago

How fast will Keir be talking up leaving the Human Rights Court now?

saltednuts.bsky.social•10 days ago

How long before Starmer want to leave Human Rights act and other legislation aimed at protecting the most vulnerable?

tsunami65.bsky.social•11 days ago

Starmer has made his mind up. He's the roadblock. Time to remove him, Labour!

photodave.bsky.social•11 days ago

The government has buried any trace of socialism in favour of abject sociopathy. It does NOT work for society.

weedogwalker.bsky.social•11 days ago

Funny, I thought the conservative nasty party lost last election.
Obviously not.

tony227.bsky.social•10 days ago

I am so confused!! I thought we’d voted the tories out??

sixesalltheway.bsky.social•11 days ago

If "Benefit cuts are a 'violation of human rights'", how long before the Labour government takes the UK out of the ECHR?

lwio.bsky.social•10 days ago

When you see a Labour politician on tv you need a caption telling you it’s a Labour politician not a Conservative.

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://www.taxingwealth.uk.

kimmarshall.bsky.social•11 days ago

I had hopes of Stephen Timms as a man of faith to protect the vulnerable in his role as minister for the disabled. Today it's evident that he reads the prosperity gospel and his beliefs are tempered by his ambition to stay in his job.

asparagusnextleft.bsky.social•10 days ago

I long ago gave up in the belief that just because someone said they were' a man of god 'meant that they were on the side of the good guys.

lenny-66.bsky.social•11 days ago

A safety net of benefits should always be there for the people who really need them.

hotchkiss13.bsky.social•11 days ago

The safety net just about functions for disabled people Labour are removing it.

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