Well this has come as a shock …. It turns out billionaires could pay more tax and still have a nice lifestyle #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #conservatives #trump #DonaldTrump #Musk #elonmusk #tesla
"Does it want to actually cut our national income because take £5 billion out of the money available to people who are on low incomes, and that amount of spending will automatically disappear from the economy, in other words, harming Labour's growth agenda as a consequence, which makes no sense at all."
I don't think appeals to this government asking them to show empathy and fairness are going to wash, the chosen rhetoric involving people with disabilities shows they see callousness, cruelty and abuse as desirable features. They might be swayed by the economic argument for not cutting disability benefits but it needs to be shouted at them repeatedly.
By and large people on benefits have to return their income to the national economy almost immediately. They can't remove it from the economy to make it more tax-efficient. These "economically inactive" people have no option but to actively stimulate economic activity.
So not disabled or incapacitated if you are under 22 years old…? Are you supposed to live on air? Not everyone has a home and parents; if in foster or state care can be thrown out at sixteen. This is monstrous, cruel and I hope it’s challenged in the courts. #Disability #Labour
Under 22s will not get incapacity benefits under welfare shake-up - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8pz1g8q9o
I lay in bed last night and suddenly this thought popped into my head:
Imagine being a politician who goes after THE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DISABLED'S money before it goes after the money of BILLIONAIRES.
Take a billion from a multi-billionaire and they have effectively lost nothing. They won't notice it. But take £10 from a disabled person and they certainly will miss it.
The physically and mentally disabled have it hard enough as it is. WHY PICK ON THEM?
Re: https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/03/14/green-mps-write-to-labour-colleagues-to-urge-benefit-cuts-opposition/ (as per last RT)
This is why I'm a paid up member of the Green Party (of England & Wales).
If these sorts of cuts go through I'm very likely to be affected. I'm still on the legacy Employment and Support Allowance (Income Related, although if I fail any Work Capability Assessment (WCA) I'm put on the Contributions Based version until that is appealed), and also receive PIP.
I live comfortable *for me*, because I just don't go out, don't eat out, don't order food in etc. I run a small monthly surplus that allows me to actually have savings, buy a few occasional luxuries (for me this means new computer equipment, and not worrying about if I can afford a particular computer game), and donate any further surplus to charities.
Personally what *I* need from any UK government is to fix the provision of mental health care by the NHS. I've repeatedly gone through a dance of talking to my GP about it, being referred to a psychiatrist, trying all manner of medications that don't help (and often have side effects), then being punted out to the likes of MIND, i.e. charity/volunteer organisations, who then also don't know what to do with me.
I am diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder, along with General and Social Anxiety. I *manage* my condition by simply not challenging myself too much. Even the mere *thought* of trying to work sends me into a panic, knowing I'd last at most a few months, more likely weeks or days before falling apart.
The last time I had trouble with a WCA I almost threw myself into traffic upon exiting the building the first appeal was held in (thankfully the second appeal went my way), and the next day ended up being taken to a hospital in an ambulance due to high suicidality.
If I can't pay rent, buy food and pay other bills, I die. I am a conduit for tax money to go through the economy again (private landlord, mostly Tesco for food/household).
He was also spreading the notion there is massive over diagnosis by GPs for all mental health issues, because they don’t have to pick up the cost and they want ‘annoying’ patients to stop bothering them.
It was vile.
So reading Zoe Williams today is a tonic to counteract not only Neil’s bile, but that of the current #Labour cabinet who are trying to force through a truly #Tory agenda right under our noses.
"..what is the point of the Labour party?
Well, the point, it seems, is to be as not-Labour as possible, and that purpose was fashioned in a battle against those on the left of the party, rather than its desire to be the canny custodian of leftwing politics once in power. It is as simple as that"
Nesrine Malik spot on, once again. We on the left warned everyone...
“The Resolution Foundation thinktank warned that cutting Pip by £5bn in 2029-30 by raising the qualifying threshold for support could mean about 620,000 people lose £675 a month on average. It said 70% of these cuts would be concentrated on those families in the poorest half of the income distribution.”
What is #Starmer and his advisors in #Labour thinking with this brutal, Muskian lurch to the right? Strategically it will alienate his MPs, members and voters. Bonkers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/starmer-to-drive-through-welfare-cuts-that-could-affect-uks-most-severely-disabled
Mental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting says:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7ejvr3y0zo
Absolutely fuming!
There are lots of people suffering without help because of the stigma around mental health. By effectively saying that people diagnosed with mental health are on the scrounge, the mental health crisis will worsen.
But I don't think that the red-Tories really give a fuck.
Because of fucking course …. Takes a racist scumbag to vet a racist scumbag #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #farage #nigelfarage #reformuk #Gammons #KemiBadenoch
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Imagine the level of self confidence you need to have to have a degree in history and say such a thing.
Wes Streeting should resign. He is no position to make such a statement as Health Secretary and he should be rebutted by the GMC right away.
"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
"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
It's like people don't trust this Labour government at all, that we could believe they would abolish the WHOLE of the NHS.
We just don't trust them. Six months in and we know they're about the Rich and not about us. Occasionally we get little crumbs from the table, but it's not bold, it's not radical, and that is what we want now. Real Change, not more "Rich People get to win"
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)
I hear Labour are calling it among themselves "Operation Chainsaw" because they saw that Wolverine twat in Argentina, and that twat Elon and thought, "yeah, we want to be twats like that too, fuck the British, scum that they are!"
That's Labour for you.,
A guerrilla (spoof) ad campaign has just broken out in the UK which attacks the Labour government for having trade talks with Israeli war criminals!
Anonymous activists have been plastering adverts on Tube (Subway) trains and bus shelters in London showing Foreign Secretary David Lammy with genocidaire Netanyahu.
The #Labour Party wants to encourage people back into work by changing #welfarebenefits at the same time as making people unemployed by cutting the size of the Civil Service.
How does this make sense?
The perception of the UK as the land of milk and honey is getting further and fruther from the truth. For people coming to the UK they find a country that is a shadow of itself.
The UK looks after it's poor and vulnerable badly. In paricular, the UK also fails to look after it's elderly and disabled to standards that are common elsewhere.
It is shocking that a Labour government is doing something even the Tories wouldn't. What are they thinking?
https://archive.is/20250313025255/https://www.ft.com/content/0c5a9cd4-84a8-4588-bbe8-5fe749331503
