MsGornall

The government was wrong to cut winter fuel payments.

It was wrong to keep the 2-child benefit cap.

It was wrong to slash disability benefits.

Pushing people into poverty is the wrong thing to do. The right thing to do is redistribute wealth and power so that everyone can live in dignity.

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This was their response:

Difficult choices for who? The Prime Minister couldn't answer my question when I asked why he's choosing to make life harder for older people, children and disabled people instead of making the super-rich pay their fair share.

A million to lose disability benefit as Labour slashes £5bn off welfare bill Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said the wide reaching reforms were needed as the welfare bill was ‘unsustainable’

This is absolutely shocking. Surely instead of cutting benefits for disabled people, the moral thing to do would be to introduce a wealth tax on the very wealthiest people in our society?

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Absolutely shocking to see a Labour secretary of state stand at the despatch box and proudly announce slashing support for some of those who need it most - including removing the UC health top-up for young people, as if young disabled people don't exist?! #DisabilityBenefits

Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.

It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.

This is austerity 2.0

Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence He’ll be radical, the PM’s allies claimed. Well, look now, as the poor are targeted and ministers boast of wearing Tory clothes better than the Tories, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Brilliant column by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social, which everyone in the UK should read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:

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Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

Cuts to benefits would be a 'grave mistake', Keir Starmer warned by his own MPs Labour MPs have hit back at ministers for plotting disability benefit cuts worth billions of pounds. Instead, they call for a wealth tax.

1/2 My view on potential welfare cuts:

If a government drives people who are unwell into exploitative and insecure work, the illness doesn’t go away.

We'll see more people on waiting lists, visiting food banks, & pushed into services that are past breaking point.

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But Reeves herself seems in no mood to back down. In an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning, where she was responding to the growth figures, Reeves was asked about the plans for welfare cuts. She replied: We will set out our plans for welfare reform, but it is absolutely clear that the current system is not working for anyone. It is not working for people who need support, it’s not working to get people into work so that more people can fulfil their potential, and it’s not working for the taxpayer when the bill for welfare is going up by billions of pounds in the next few years. So, we do need to get a grip. We need to spend more on national defence, but we need to reform our public services, and we need to reform our broken welfare system.

One more time for ministers at the back: it’s entirely possible to be a taxpayer and to receive benefits.

As someone currently in the mid-tax band and on PIP, I’m more than happy for my earnings to help people who can’t work - and to pick up the state support I’m entitled to.

Mental ill-health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says Institute for Fiscal Studies says half of the rise in working-age people claiming the benefit last year is linked to mental health

The disability benefits bill is always 'soaring'. I can't think of time when it wasn't described as such. Our current era of 'soaringness' has lots of causes but the main one is the arbitary decision to fix a notion there is a 'right amount' of benefits spending
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“A rerun of Tory austerity by making poor people poorer isn't what Labour should be about. Instead, the government should explore raising extra funds from wealthy corporations and individuals”

There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. 

My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we really want security, why don’t we start with energy security (aka energy independence)

Since Labour took office, 10,000 more children have been plunged into poverty by the refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Increasing military spending while millions of children go hungry is not a tough decision. It’s the wrong decision.

‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge

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The government has announced it will pay for more weapons and bombs by cutting support for the world's poorest people.

A deplorable decision that will only create a more unstable and unequal world.

What is the government doing to bring about peace?

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

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Labour under Attlee, with far greater economic challenges than today, had boldness, vision & a compelling story. Starmer’s Labour fails on all 3 counts, which amounts to laying out a welcome mat to Farage.
On eve of publication of #AnotherEngland in paperback, I write for @prospectmagazine.co.uk👇

‘Guess who’s back?’: the inside story of Nigel Farage’s quest for power With a new HQ and digital-savvy staff, Reform UK is trying to tighten its operation – but there are tensions over fringe views and trouble brewing at the grassroots

“Guess who’s back?”: the inside story of Nigel Farage’s quest for power.

A must read piece on the rise of Reform UK - and what happens next - by our @rowenamason.bsky.social & @benquinn75.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me," stitched in cross stitch.

Morning mood.
#resist #resistance

I'm a lecturer - mollycoddling universities are setting young people up to fail Students can watch lectures online at home and avoid presentations if they make them too anxious - we're failing to prepare them for the world of work

Classic ego before empathy! Students deserve a better professor! #academicsky inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Fall of the Damned, featuring Trump, Musk and co, whilst Right Rev Mariann Budde delivers her message from the pulpit at the inaugural prayer service.

We Can Make an Impact. Israel: Release the Withheld Fire Engine for Palestinian Firefighters

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Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive A proposed new law will also give ministers greater powers to request bank account information.

What about Tax avoiders?

What about corrupt politician and their cronies?

Britain is not broke because of benefits.

Britain is broke because of the super greedy extracting all the wealth

Britain is broke because the govt refusing to print money or tax the rich.

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