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submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Behavioural incentivisation through punishment—removing the means to live—and ideology—making people feel lesser—can produce ‘good numbers’ for the audit-obsessed neoliberal machine. But the actual cost? Dead bodies, devastated minds, and a system that pays more in the end.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It’s not incentivisation, it’s coercion. It’s not Labour ‘saving’ benefits claimants from the ‘scrap heap,’ it’s a return of austerity. It’s not getting people into work, it’s pushing them towards crisis.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

TW+++ DWP ITV is reporting this as fact this evening. It is not yet. But let’s be clear - you can’t incentivise away disability. #PIP ALREADY differentially discriminates against mental illness and many chronic especially invisible disabilities so it will go to court.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Making #PIP harder to claim and freezing payments would drive countless disabled folk into worse poverty. Household with at least one #disabled adult or child face average extra costs of £975 per month; this is already insufficiently met which is why food bank use is more common.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Recent data shows nearly one in five people on disability benefits in the UK have turned to food banks, highlighting the financial strain on disabled individuals especially those with conditions that limit our ability to work. To not only freeze but reduce income is beyond cruel.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Where’s the button to activate non-disabled people and those not on benefits to give a damn about this most intersectional of issues?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Just a reminder that disabled folk and organisations have incredible form for beating the DWP in court when they break our human rights:

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

You can tell how little Labour care about disabled people’s mental health by the fact they leaked £6 billion in cuts—specifically and disproportionately hitting us—late on a Friday, when most mental health services and community resources are closed.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Once again this government's dreadful priorities laid bare - making billions available for defence at the expense of those already struggling to make ends meet. Greens will fight tooth and nail against cruel, unnecessary welfare cuts. news.sky.com/story/billio...

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Well done to Anneliese Dodds for sticking to her principles on this. A terrible decision by Keir Starmer to fund increased defence spending by cutting support for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

"While people suffer the cost-of-living crisis, Starmer’s poll ratings reflect the government’s failure to tackle it." Me on why the cost-of-living crisis will define 2025, for @insidecroydon.bsky.social insidecroydon.com/2025/02/27/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

UK did a great job of sucking-up to the school bully, and in activating the latent but potent deference-snobbery-flattery of the Crown. Good, short-term expedients. But in longer-term UK still needs to extricate itself from US, and minimise/eliminate exposure to its abuses of power.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Someone really needs to explain the concept of a 'price cap' to Ofgem ... We're being ripped off with the acquiescence of an inept regulator. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

RIP off Britain - These firms will be announcing close to record profits soon. Ofgem here basically placing the priorities of shareholders above those of the general Public. This is far worse than the £300 WFA cut - but the Right wing press won't make a fuss. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The UK needs to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union. Always talking about a lack of money, it will give £42bn in tax, and a lack of growth it will give £250bn a year of that. It is stupidity not to do it.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: Unemployment rose to 1,557,000 (to Dec 2024) – up 48,000 in the last 3 months, and up 213,000 on a year ago. On wider underemployment measure there are 4,754,000 looking for work - up from 4.67 million 3 months ago. Vacancies fell marginally to 818,000

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Morning Bluesky. The UK’s Ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson told the BBC on his first day the UK must respect Trump's "strong and clear mandate for change". Your regular reminder that there was no strong and clear mandate for change. It was a very narrow victory that is already raising questions

submitted 26 days ago • 56 comments

Our latest on last night's council by-elections. Labour shed support while Reform advance across the board. But: Are the polls right? Read: https://britainelects.substack.com/p/labour-rout-in-council-by-elections

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Labour is letting the water companies off the hook - and we're all paying for it My latest column for @insidecroydon.bsky.social insidecroydon.com/2025/02/06/l...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

“That a Labour government is seemingly willing to sacrifice poor and disabled people’s benefits in order to protect the wealthy and healthy from paying a bit more tax feels at best perverse and, at worst, a betrayal.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments

I Will start Nigel Farage

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Zack Polanski, "Austerity was always the problem, not the European Union" "If we want to solve the problems in this country right now we need to tackle inequality" Kay Burley, "How?" Zack Polanski, "Wealth tax.. Inequality in the country.. People are unhappy and our services are broken"

submitted 34 days ago • 51 comments

Should shops and services be required to let customers pay with cash? The government has said no, allowing them to stay card only if they want, but the public disagrees Should be able to be card only: 16% Should be required to accept cash: 77% yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

The Labour MPs suspended over opposing child poverty are principled titans. Those who suspended them, as the briefing here underlines, are nasty, soulless, mediocre little hacks. The MPs should tell these clowns to go fuck themselves. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 40 days ago • 20 comments

Google to be renamed Poodle after the decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America following Donald Trump's toddler tantrum.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Every year the UK gains about £300bn in wealth, nearly 90% goes to the richest 1% and most of it untaxed. THIS is why there is no money, not disabled people, not immigrants, but blatant theft that we not only ignore but protect and encourage.

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

this sort of thing always shows up as much more expensive problems elsewhere in the system, as well as the certain misery caused. it's another sign of the way in which the system can't process some kinds of information.

submitted 42 days ago • 18 comments

"There is no fat to be trimmed on people’s living standards, with record numbers of families homeless and poverty rising. "The electoral consequences of a new round of austerity would be terminal for Labour." My column for @inews.co.uk on the options facing Labour inews.co.uk/opinion/bein...

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

If this can happen in Scotland it should happen for the Isle of Wight and Hampshire links. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Liz Kendall, who lives in a £4million mansion in Notting Hill, west London, used £3,182 of public money to pay off energy costs for her second home in her constituency between April 2023 and July this year. Benefits, eh!

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment