“Your reforms will push an extra 250,000 people including 50,000 children into relative poverty… wow..”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Treasury Minister Darren Jones on the welfare reform impact assessment which he says doesn’t account for "positive benefit of moving into work”
#Newsnight
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Treasury Minister Darren Jones on the welfare reform impact assessment which he says doesn’t account for "positive benefit of moving into work”
#Newsnight
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Almost as if it were planned.
an offer of suitable jobs with a decent wage would be the carrot, but there's no investment to provide those jobs for those that are able to work, or rehabilitation for those that need it before they could work.
What the actual f@ck are you doing? This stuff is Right Wing Tory policy, far right of John Major FFs. Are you actually trying to get Nazis elected? Or are you all in the Kremlin’s pocket like the last lot 🤔
It *could* be argued that the gov has succeeded in limiting the number of people going into relative poverty to 250,000
We have been totally screwed by:
* 2008 crash
* Brexit
* Covid
* Putin
* Trump
When are people going to get the message that we're far poorer than we'd otherwise be?
Before brexit, the poor and the disabled were persecuted.
Were the streets paved with gold before?
It has a HUGE amount to do with Brexit which made us a lot poorer necessitating cuts
The same goes for the 2008 crash, Covid, Putin, Trump. Net result is the cuts have had to be much bigger
To quote JOB: "It's called counting"
Liberals live in a state of ignorance.
those who can't work simply can't work. you can't 'move them in to work'. they cannot work.
there also aren't enough jobs to go around in the first place.
labour are hard right pond scum.