Amrit Lohia

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Smashing people.

When it comes to benefits over the last decade, people have been murdered for the sake of saving a few quid , those who survive long enough to get a court date are almost always given the money back. The DWP admit theyre lying when called on it and refuse to do anything. Prosecutions are needed.

Have we ever been drip fed to this extent the contents of an upcoming budget?

1) Drip feed budget contents one by one.

2) Gauge reaction.

3) if reaction is to negative change budget.

4) Rinse and repeat.

They are only doing it cos they are so unpopular that the Greens are polling above labour. They didn't give a damn at the beginning of their tenure. I actually despise them more!

If they were serious about alleviating poverty, they would go a lot further.

This is vote saving, gesture politics

They should have come into office with sweeping reforms and roll back of austerity, rebuilding the country instead of continuing the Toxic Tory policies. No longer believe they are anything but Blue Labour. I hope but not with certainty...

If the only reason Labour has changed their tune is fear of the Greens, I still don't want them anywhere near power. I'm sticking with a party and leader who have decried the cap from the start. And stood for trans rights. And for Palestine.

If it's true that Reeves will U turn on the child benefit cap, it doesn't mean she won't cut other essential benefits and keeping families in poverty isn't a reason to vote for Labour.

If she didn't think it was right to penalise children, why did she actually penalise children?

Performance politics at its best

So when they withdrew the whip from Labour MPs because they didn't support continuing this particular example of Tory cruelty... what?

That was accidental?

Well they are low down in the polls. After attacking children, pensioners, the disabled and being complicit in genocide, Labour want to pretend that they are there for the people, and it’s not because starver is more unpopular than iceberg Liz

She's harmed children for no fucking reason, other than to please the wealthy oligarchs that own the Cabinet and funded the freshman MPs that she refused to tax

Either way, her short lived career as Chancellor is finished and losing her seat at the next election

If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago.

The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened.

Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.

“…What do I want from COP30? I want leaders who will look their children in the eye and say: We chose courage. We stopped subsidising destruction. We stood with the global majority who did not cause this crisis...” - Zack Polanski

Yes! Exactly! Well said, Zack

'Three-quarters of people support a wealth tax – yet none of the establishment parties will touch it. So parts of the media close ranks when the vast wealth of their owners and the policies of their friends in Westminster come under threat.'

It’s scary how quickly this has happened, but we are pushing back.

Maybe this Labour government think people haven’t noticed, but they would be wrong. The vast majority want fairness and genuine solutions to the multiple crises going on at the moment, not vile scapegoating and punching down.

The rich would have regular people believe that trying to heat their homes has worse environmental impacts than yachts and private jets. All they do is try to shift the blame

We need to get these elites and corporations to pay for the damage they’re causing

You can't solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it Billionaires and corporations are driving climate breakdown. It’s time to tax their wealth and build a fairer future.

Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.

It's time to tax the rich.

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski

UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Labour right and their journalist outriders are TERRIFIED of Labour losing power. They are absolutely shaking in their boots at the prospect of the Greens having any success.

Let’s make sure they were right to be scared, join and vote Green. The grass is greener ✅❇️💚

join.greenparty.org.uk

Farage claiming the bbc has been institutionally biased “for years” . Too bloody right it is as that twat is never off Question time 🙄

Hey racists, I hope you're proud of making nurses and home help feel scared to do there jobs.

Arseholes, you put them up to intimidate, and it's worked.
F#ck You racists.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

"On another occasion, a BBC executive forbade me from writing for the New Statesman, imploring me to ask The Spectator instead, saying that would be perfectly fine."

goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

(Also on that quote, if taking a position that simply reflects international law marks the Green Party as pro-Palestinian "zealots" in the eyes of centrist pundits then we really do have a big problem).

Polanski responded to the Manchester attack in a thoughtful, sensitive and considered way, not in spite of his lack of political qualifications but because of the ethical and human qualities which are the really indispensable (though of course insufficient) qualification for high office.

People are not fearful of Farage in Downing Street because they worry that he wouldn't competently manage the bureaucracy or grasp the finer points of macroeconomics. They worry because he is palpably a nasty piece of work who would govern actively against their interests, even their safety.

A person is not "qualified" to be PM in the same way as they are qualified to be a surgeon or a mechanic. You can picture Polanski learning the technical aspects of government a lot more easily than you can picture Farage or Starmer acquiring the necessary ethical or humanistic qualities.