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The man currently talking of massive cuts to the Civil Service, massive cuts to social programs and letting the Rich get away with stuff "for Growth" understands what Trump is trying to do.
#austerity
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Yayy, thanks Brexit! /s
But it's not the Rich's fault, it's the fault of 'The Other' and we're all to believe that lie or else!
Let's keep cutting services, letting the Rich avoid Tax and pretend away existential problems like Climate Change by chanting "Growth" over and over again.....
The Guardian · All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns
You mean Austerity 2.0 isn't convincing you Protest Voters?
What if Labour whipped some Refugees in the street for you, would you vote Labour then?
The Guardian · A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters
"Since Austerity" — as if Austerity ever went away. Have the cuts imposed by George Osborne been recovered? Are those SureStart centres, libraries and youth clubs reopened, restaffed and re-resourced? Are those potholes fixed, hospitals built, schools repaired, school playing fields returned? Are the waiting times for social care services, GP appointments and hospital care back to 2010 figures?
This is Austerity upon Austerity.
The Guardian · Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement
Operation Chainsaw to punish the Poor for the crime of existing.
Sure that'll win them votes, everybody loves Austerity, right?
"Punish us, but leave the Rich, they've done nothing wrong!"/s
The Guardian · Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement
Trump’s AG Dept has halted 100s of $Ms worth of deliveries to food banks. USDA had previously allocated $500M in deliveries to them for fiscal year 2025 through Emergency Food Asst Prgm. Food bank leaders: many of those orders: CXL -on top of $1B CXL last week for school lunch purchases from loc farms.
Every GOP Senator & Rep must be asked if they support AMERICANS
GOING HUNGRY.
We'll have starving children
bc of the #TrumpMusk regime's #austerity plan.
#Hunger #USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453
Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences.
But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-going-global-it-needs-to
Disconnect · DOGE is going global. It needs to be stopped.
This morning there are lots of responses to Labour's proposed cuts to disability benefits, here are just two:
1. As Anna Landre argues, what the Govt. actually needs to do is: 'ask disabled people who want to work what keeps them from doing so & construct targeted policies to address those barriers'...
rather than just assume they know the answers & can make disabled people's decisions about support for them.
#disability #benefits #austerity
https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/labour-welfare-force-disabled-out-of-work-pip-starmer-benefits/
LBCLabour’s welfare plan will force disabled people out of work, not into itWe all agree that the welfare system needs change — but the current government’s proposal for benefits cuts disguised as “reform” will only reduce the number of disabled people in work.
"There is still time for the Labour cabinet to act like a cabinet, and for its members to stand up to the Treasury to halt the cuts in benefits to the sick and disabled, and to insist on a more flexible interpretation of the fiscal rules and a limited set of tax measures."
John McDonnell
Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/benefit-cuts-labour-mps-disabled-sick
#UKPol #Labour #welfare #austerity
The Guardian · Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted?
"Rayner raised #Labour MPs’ worries about the depth of the cuts to the #benefits system — which include radical reforms that the former Conservative government blanched at during the “#austerity” period a decade ago.
https://www.ft.com/content/befa195d-0977-4a07-ad9d-881056472860
Apparently a Govt. 'source' has today suggested that Labour MPs making representations (complaining) about the prospective benefits freezes & cuts are (actually) just 'pearl clutching'
If true then this is both ageset & sexist if being used as an insult (its unclear how else it might be intended), and suggests Labour 'managers' have developed a tin ear for any political development outside the confines of the Westminster Village.
#austerity #politics #benefits
h/t Simon Fletcher/Modern Left
"We're celebrating 40 years of (Government not funding social programs) Comic Relief!"
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A truly stunning lack of originality, and the hilarity of still pretending to be on the Left, while idolising a Far Right populist who is currently destroying his own country.
And besides, the Tories already tried it 10 years ago.
![Labour Together has expressed its ambition to channel "[Javier] Milel's energy but with a
radical centre-left purpose,” signalling a willingness to explore even legally risky measures to
cut civil service numbers and overhaul government departments. The plans also include
getting a third runway built at Heathrow within this parliament—a proposal that, if
implemented, would mark one of the boldest shifts in government policy in recent years.
When asked about which bodies were under threat, a spokesperson for Starmer stated that
while the Prime Minister thought the state had become "passive," he declined to provide
further details and did not comment on whether ministers were planning a "bonfire of the
quangos" akin to the 2010-15 reforms by David Cameron and George Osborne.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/155/754/302/749/399/original/924830d860325d1f.png)
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Well I'm not 'Working People' so fuck me I guess?
And you say it's not 'Ideological', when you erase people like me from Public Life.
Your giddiness at unleashing pain on us is palpable lads, you're creeping us out.
Alleen in Nederland. 
Heeft u een beroerte?
Gaat u dan maar even voor de camera staan mijnheer, dan kijkt de helpdesk-neuroloog wel even op afstand wat er is.
"Ziekenhuis Meppel test neurologisch onderzoek op afstand"
#Zorg #austerity #AusterityIsMurder
nos.nlZiekenhuis Meppel test neurologisch onderzoek op afstandPatiënten die binnenkomen met een beroerte, worden door twee artsen gezien. De een aan het bed, de ander tegelijkertijd via een camera.
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Please re-read the Chap. 5 in @kateraworth.bsky.social #book - The motto of “no pain no gain” is an approach to justifying belt-tightening #austerity measures https://www.kateraworth.com/
