Lee Irving

Image from OBR's Budget docuoment: "Our economy forecast now incorporates the net effect of the changes to universal credit (UC) policies which remain in force following the policy changes made in July. We estimate these will add around 15,000 average hours equivalent (AHE) to labour supply in 2029-30. This reflects the net effect of: (1) the increase in the generosity of the UC standard allowance, which is expected to reduce recipients’ financial incentive to enter or remain in employment, leading to an estimated 11,000 AHE reduction to labour supply; and (2) the reductions in the generosity of and eligibility for health-related benefits in UC, which are expected to lower income for new claimants, increasing work incentives, and resulting in an estimated 26,000 AHE increase in labour supply. We have also assessed the new employment support programme announced in the Green Paper. Based on evidence from similar past schemes, combined with the Department for Work and Pensions’ range of estimates of the numbers of individuals that could be provided with support, we estimate that the programme could support 20,000 to 40,000 inactive claimants"

Today the OBR finally published employment impacts of Govt’s (remaining) disability benefit cuts, which weren’t ready in the spring. Confirms @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis at the time that these huge cuts to disabled people’s incomes come with relatively few expected to move into work. 🧵1/3

Penalise or just contribute

Because you are still using services.

Pensioners should pay a NI contribution on income above the state pension

#BBCLauraK “The economy of course isn’t like a household “ then goes on to say but many people think it is so it’s a thing.

FFS

Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

Social housing provider? Interested in Passivhaus?

Don't miss this brilliant opportunity to visit a near-completed large scale project next week in London!

🗺️ Newham, London
🗓️Tuesday 25 November 10.00-12.00

BOOK NOW: https://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/event_detail.php?eId=1497

Please share!

Whilst we were watching the chaos unfold in Italy, we allowed people to go there on holiday. Couldn’t interrupt their skiing

WELCOME TO NEWCASTLE GREEN PARTY Cllrs Musharraf, Chisholm (with guide dog), Peters, and Hartley standing in a park.

A headshot of Cllr Alistair Chisholm. ALISTAIR CHISHOLM COUNCILLOR FOR OUSEBURN

Welcoming Ouseburn Councillor Alistair Chisholm to Newcastle Green Party! 💚

“Residents tell me they feel let down by Labour — and I can’t tell them they’re wrong.

(1/4)

I remember Rishi launching it wearing one of those plastic visor and I was thinking that’s just directing his breath down onto the food …..

If it's weird to you that the other parties don't get something so obvious:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

And then there were four!

Exciting news 💚

A big welcome to new @nclgreenparty.bsky.social councillor, Alistair Chisholm.

As Alistair says, so many people feel let down by Labour. With Alistair joining the Greens, it makes us stronger as a local party to work together for Newcastle.

HOW WE WIN ON THE LEFT IN NEWCASTLE 6TH DECEMBER 2-5PM AT NEWCASTLE BANGLADESHI ASSOCIATION Want to protect your community from racism, austerity and the climate crisis? This event is for you. Hot food! Children welcome! tinyurl.com/4aavns7n

An event to unite and grow the left in Newcastle ahead of the May 2026 all-out elections and into the future!

🗓 Saturday 6th December
🕥 2-5pm
📍 Newcastle Bangladeshi Association, NE4 6SN

RSVP tinyurl.com/4aavns7n

Newcastle Labour councillor defects to Greens and attacks government 'failure' Ouseburn ward councillor Alistair Chisholm has announced he is quitting the Labour Party and joining the Greens

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Newcastle Labour councillor defects to Greens and attacks government 'failure' Ouseburn ward councillor Alistair Chisholm has announced he is quitting the Labour Party and joining the Greens

And then there was 4. Greens on the rise in Newcastle

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

He bullied this woman reporter because he is pathetic and scared.

He knows the files are coming.

What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised.

Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.

Polanski hitting it out of the park on Newsnight, however putting a Reform Councillor shows how the BBC are weirdly obsessed with Reform.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"

That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Another regular reminder that the current government has a huge FPTP majority which they could use to improve the representativeness of our voting system, along the lines of the NI Assembly, Senedd or Holyrood

👀💚👀💚 what a result!! Well done Mike and North Somerset Greens 💚

"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏

Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol

body..so yes- dangerous

"I have met some very bad people....none as bad as trump.

Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."

Jeffrey Epstein 2017

🟢 Here's why you should join the Green Party 👇

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

Or just write something that happens before he dies

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.

Did he say how?