Keir Starmer to drive through welfare cuts for UK’s most severely disabled people, more than 600,000 benefit claimants could lose out on an average of £675 a month.
Awful, inhumane.
No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich.
People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.
Awful, inhumane.
No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich.
People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.
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Nothing has been announced.
Please make that clear.
Yes there are a few who could be cut or reduced , but this is the failure of vetting and assessment , not of the disablement?
Long live NeoLabour
Starmer is an inflexible nightmare
"When wealth is passed off as merit + bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw.
Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live"
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/deaths-lies-and-cover-ups-the-case-for-a-public-inquiry-into-the-unthinkable-cost-of-dwps-systemic-violence/
Nothing more than a Tory replacement bus service now, utterly in service to the forces of capital.
Starmers and his right wing cuckoos have destroyed the labour party.
And given they all attended state schools- I’d have thought that was a good thing. Kids from state schools doing well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_people_with_PPE_degrees
I'm beginning to suspect his apparent bromance with the fat fuhrer in the Whitehouse might not be appeasement.
Starmer will kill the last remnants of Labour. Faiscim is back and it’s spreading.
Sooner or later the demonstrations will start and they’ll wonder why
This will see a massive rebellion amongst its MPs. It will never get through.
Aside from it being cruel and despicable, it is political suicide to proceed with this.
I went through all the bsky accounts of labour MPs to find who's publicly opposed cuts & make a list.
I didn't expect much but was shocked it was only 5!
Would you mind giving my thread a boost to help add traction to opposition on this?
https://bsky.app/profile/disabledphil.bsky.social/post/3lklvxnmgqs2j
If he lasts a full term I’ll be shocked.
Regardless, unless something fundamental changes really soon (i.e. Burnham) then Labour will be back in the wilderness with potentially terminal consequences.
Inexcusable.
Only “this is unsustainable”.
Clearly they do not work for the UK’s benefit or future prosperity so have a limited lifespan.
Some corporates may have a very slight cut in their massive profits. Disabled and vulnerable will be starved to death.
Can’t argue with stupid.
Sadly most contemporary, blinkered Labour supporters don't.
I was never a fan.
He always struck me as someone who stands for nothing.
The complete opposite of Tony Benn.
Unfortunately, it would appear neoliberalism has grabbed him by the biscotti, as it has so many.
No one else will get the nominations needed.
They have the self awareness of a corpse.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
A wealth tax would be much better. A tax on those with assets of say 10m (or possibly less)
It would raise billions
I own a property (I’m retired) but I am not rich by any means. I have a fairly decent pension and get by comfortably.
Maybe you can go lower- I’ve seen 6m mentioned.
Definitely.
We need a concerted effort to eradicate tax avoidance and tax evasion.
a month) Our house is probably worth around 600k and we our kids wont pay inheritance tax when we die.
Rachel Reeves.
Pledged to cut welfare.
Look it up... The Guardian. Labour are Tories.
Adds up for me to be akin to Nazi policy. Look at her record. Consistently attacked welfare. UK is mean. Crap pensions and crap welfare support. Meanwhile the rich get richer.
It’s not about the messaging. This is simply unacceptable. Trying to massage the message would just look even more cynical.
This is far worse than the Tories, this is the ideological programme of the Silicon Valley neoreactionaries around Trump and Musk
But people forget the benefit recipients put that money straight back into the economy.
Meanwhile the tax dodging billionaires merely hoard their gains offshore.