Andy Vail

Repeatedly taking the easy choice on welfare – Joint Public Issues Team JPIT’s Paul Morrison responds to potential disability benefit cuts. In the November 2024 budget the Chancellor decided to keep the last government’s £3bn of disability benefit cuts which were pencille...

"It is profoundly unjust that the costs of the increased risks in the world are borne not by those who are gaining the most, or even those who actively profit from these risks, but by the weakest in our society and across the globe."
jpit.uk/repeatedly-t...

18.03.2025 10:43 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Sign the petition: Scrap plans to cut aid I just signed the petition calling on the PM not to cut support for the world’s poorest to pay for more defence spending - tax the ultra rich instead! Can you sign too?

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26.02.2025 18:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Patrick Watt, Chief Executive for Christian Aid response to the proposed cuts to the UK Aid budget.

Read full article here: independent.co.uk/voices/inter...

#Aid #KeirStarmer #Trump

26.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

What the government can’t afford:

❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance

What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.

Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.

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Reminder: Free travel on West Midlands Buses today

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A bar chart showing the number of low-income households in the UK in millions going without the essentials from May 2022 - October 2024. This number has stayed around 7 million the whole time.

Latest research from Oct finds around 7 million low-income households are still going without essentials. 📢

This number has barely moved for three years.

5.4 million low-income households said they were unable to afford enough food in the past 30 days.

www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...

11.12.2024 15:41 — 👍 48    🔁 42    💬 0    📌 4

Thomas Attwood 1783 - 1856 - chartist ancestors Thomas Attwood was the founder of the Birmingham Political Union, a campaigner for the 1832 Reform Act who was involved in the early stages of Chartism

Day 2 of the #Chartism themed #AdventCalendar🎄
Thomas Attwood, founder of the Birmingham Political Union
A Chartist a day till Christmas
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-attwo...

02.12.2024 07:31 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Good News for Christmas shoppers from Transport for West Midlands:

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