Labour will keep Tory ‘savings’ plan in war on disabled and Kendall hints at further deprivations of Labour’s own concocting
Labour is keeping a Tory plan to ‘save’ money by depriving more than 400,000 sick and disabled people of as much as £400 a month according to DWP Secretary Liz Kendall – and she indicated there are likely to be even further punitive cuts in order to ‘help’ disabled people into work as part of Keir Starmer’s war on benefit claimants:
The nazis ‘euthanised’ sick and disabled people as ‘useless eaters’, a comparison made to Skwawkbox by a number of disabled people. Kendall, Starmer and the deceitful Rachel Reeves have long made clear that they see people’s value in the work they can do and that those who can’t work will be hit until they magically can, or as Reeves infamously put it almost a decade ago, Labour will be tougher on benefit claimants than the Tories.
To grease the wheels of this plan, people will be forced to take dangerous weight loss drugs, thousands of pensioners will be allowed to freeze to death each winter and even the mentally ill will be forced to receive visits from ‘work coaches’ with the power to impose ‘sanctions’ – the immediate loss of benefits for non-compliance. And Kendall has said that she supports the proposed euthanasia plan to begin ‘assisted’ death schemes, which many frail and disabled people say will end in pressure or even coercion on them to ‘stop being a burden’.
The red Tories are every bit as malignant as the blue and seem to be trying to outdo them.
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£400 is £4, 800 a year.
So that means the target, in order to reach the (current) figure of £3,000,000,000 per year in perpetuity of our money that these parasites masquerading as “Labour” politicians have promised to the illegal neo-Nazi regime in 404 is 625,00 of the poorest citizens of theUK populace.
And they claim only primitive societies sacrifice their own people to the Gods – or in this case Mammon.
Meanwhile, that petition to force Herr Starmer to hand back the keys of number 10 which he took under false pretences with only around a fifth of the electorate will likely be at two and a quarter million within the next hour.
They may as well sign my death warrant. She doesn’t seem to grasp that some disabled people are completely unable to work.
Aktion T4 “labour” party. The workhouse party for the disabled, old and poor.
“What’s not to like?” we were asked/told.
Picking on society’s most vulnerable. God stiffen the bastard lot of them, and anyone else supporting them.
Meanwhile the luxurious upper class welfare state offers 1,000+ tax handouts for the rich.
Perhaps to distract from this Osborne started the attack on citizens on benefits years ago with his “Strivers v Shirkers” language.
The Tories deliberately set neighbour v neighbour re welfare reinforced by the Right Wing media, and of course as the rich are distant from most peoples lives some mugs fall for this and turn on each other as the rich literally laugh all the way to the bank.
Right Wing Labour simply (a) lack the political courage to fight for the poor and (b) lack the political acumen the counter the dominant Right Wing narrative on welfare.
The best political leaflet I have ever contributed to and delivered in my life was by my grassroots trade union and it was a Counter Narrative on Welfare as above.
Years ago, before entering HE as a mature student & ending up with a good job, I was skint and was often down to my last few fish fingers the night before the giro arrived; so in the leaflet I imagined its recipient feeling low and belittled by the media, the DWP & politicians & we aimed to empower them with arguments in short POLITICISE the oppressed!
So now Lumpen Right Wing Labour joins in, in the cruelty towards citizens as powerless so we need to stand with them.
I’m proud to be a Left Wing Democratic Socialist and a Corbyn type Govt would be a kinder Govt and would actually give citizens enough to live on (see The Social Security Commission) plus work to enable the happiness of citizens – it’s interesting that mainstream politicians NEVER utter that word!
We should be about helping citizens reach their full potential and this could be through education, art, music, poetry, writing, hobbies, volunteering + more and to some work but not necessarily work; unlike the ‘thinking’ of very comfortable & Lumpen MPs & Lords there is more to life than being a wage slave. Solidarity.
How much does it cost the country to Sanction a benefits claimant, to leave someone with nothing, what do you think happens next
Years ago Mathew Parris was filmed trying to survive on benefits
Years after I was talking to one of his neighbours in the film, he said it took all of an hour into it before he was bumming fags off people
Needless to say they didn’t show that in the film
Where’s our resident pollster and has he signed the petition
The complaints about the Fuhrer sound familiar, doesn’t keep his promises
Well I fecking never
Oh, he’s lurking, Doug.
He posted this earlier on today.
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/24/petition-for-new-ge-because-of-labour-dishonesty-passes-1m-signatures-and-accelerating/#comment-261843
But nowt since. Its not that all that pre-election piss & wind has taken it out of him, its just that everything everyone else said would happen, has happened.
So he can’t deny anything anymore. The receipts are available all over the shop, and the till roll has run out.
Keef’s had the gullible imbecile over yet again.
The distribution of the votes in this petition by constituency so far is interesting.
By far the largest part of those signing this are outside the large urban conurbations. Giving some credence – along with a certain amount of comment across social media bigging this petition up which refers to the Starmer led Labour Party/Government as (I kid you not) “Communists – to the suspicion that the extreme political right represent a significant sector of those signing this petition.
The bad news for that particular contingent can be found in this page from the electoral calculus web site……
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_rrose_20241101.html
….. which shows:
“If an election were held today, Labour has an 83 percent probability of winning the most seats. But that news is not so good as it looks. While having the most seats in the House of Commons, there is only a 36 percent probability that Labour would get the absolute majority needed to give it the decade-long control of government that Labour may need to claim credit for the big gains that may follow slowly from the pains contained in this week’s budget.”
Simply because:
“It’s good news for Labour that six Opposition parties* would divide the spoils from a Labour loss of 66 seats from its landslide victory last July. A reduced majority would allow a Labour government to keep a lead of 175 seats over the official Opposition. The polls show the new Tory leader takes over a party that at present has a greater chance of falling as low as 73 seats than of winning a parliamentary majority at the next election.”
*These are not identified in the article. However, it is not difficult to identify Conservative, Lib-Dems (still operating to the neo-liberal Orange Book doctrine), Reform, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens.
And the lesson of that reality is that in a first past the post system in which the only alternative is to split votes between competing parties who are merely more variations of the same failed and collapsing status quo that unless there is either a split from within the PLP to assist in the formation of an alternative offering alternative policies or the creation of that alternative without that isolated group within the PLP this petition will not achieve anything.
Even if that most predictable reduced majority meant the end of the likes of screeching, phillips and perhaps even the muculent milksop himself then I’d settle for it.
(Sadly, I’ve no confidence in my own constituents getting shut of illeagle).
You have to wonder though, with all the dissatisfaction evident how long it’ll be before the machinations start and the rats turn on themselves.
*Puts popcorn maker on standby…
Years ago Mathew Parris was filmed trying to survive on benefits
For a whole week IIRC. The godawful, poncing, poison dwarf. ‘bumming fags’ eh? Be about right.
Anywho, people who cop for a sanction (Christ, but I despise that term) don’t get a dicky-bird. No chance of any documentary on them.
BTW kendall said in that kuenssberg puff-piece that: “There are loads of great work coaches”
(How the F would she know?)
Not in my experience, or that of anyone i know who’s ever signed on, there aren’t. (And I’ve helped/advised a few people with their claims in the past. Wouldn’t know where to begin, now.)
They are NOT coaches they are generally bullies. Yes, there are the competent ones – but they’re vastly outnumbered by the sly, evil bastards. And the ratio is <1:100.
The reason for that is they are given incentive bonuses for ruining peoples lives, which they do for THE most spurious of reasons, safe in the knowledge there's microscopic – if any – chance of any comeback.
And all this talk of reforming Jobcentres…They've shut half of them down around here, including the one in Wallasey a few years back. Now wallaseyians have to travel to birkenhead jcp
(I know of one lad got his claim stopped because the bus had to stop while Duke St Bridge was raised, making him a few minutes late for successive signings. Only had an old mobile phone without a camera so couldn't prove it = dole stopped. Luckily he got a job the week after).
Perhaps by 'reforming JCPs kendall means it'll be a return to the security grilles between claimant and jcp capo…They might well end up having to return to them.