Rachel Millington

Contact responds to the government’s Spring Statement The Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out further cuts to benefits today, as part of the government’s Spring Statement.

Our response to the Spring statement: contact.org.uk/about-contac...

26.03.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Benefit cuts with a red rosette are in many ways no different than those stained in blue. Joints still throb when the heating has to be switched off in winter. Stomachs still pang with hunger when there is only a biscuit for tea. And yet cuts signed off by a Labour Chancellor are in a sense particularly brutal. They come with a tinge, not just of fear, but despair and betrayal. The feeling that if this is life under the “good guys”, there really is no hope that anything will get better. Politicians, it turns out, really are all the same. That is the sort of loss that can’t be measured by a Treasury spreadsheet. It is also one that - once lost - is deeply hard to get back.

26.03.2025 14:57 — 👍 760    🔁 301    💬 28    📌 20

I cannot see the logic of these cuts. If an unpaid carer has to seek (paid) work, what is the cost to the state of providing that care instead?

26.03.2025 11:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a great read: 'A person’s degree of disablement is socially constructed... The increased need for health and disability benefits is symptomatic of failures in the NHS, housing, food prices, wages, public transport and other infrastructure, among other things.'

25.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0