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Geri ❤️<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> campaigned on a vision of welfare reform that emphasized dignity, opportunity, and fixing a "broken system" - language that signalled improvement.But months after their landslide victory, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> has emerged again. The reformed <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PIP</a> criteria excludes hundreds of thousands of disabled people. The Work Capability Assessment is to be abolished. Ppl under 22 with health conditions would be denied additional support & Winter Fuel Payments have been stripped from millions of pensioners

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 20, 1985: The Bolivian authorities sent in the army to crush a General Strike. Workers had launched the strike in response to austerity measures by the Siles Zuazo administration. They demanded higher wages, stable food supplies, price controls and the president’s resignation. At the time, inflation was 3,400%. 10,000 miners filled the streets of La Paz each day. The General Strike lasted 16 days and spread to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca. On March 24, the miners accepted a government offer to quadruple the minimum wage. They eventually forced Zuazo to resign.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bolivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bolivia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralStrike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minimumwage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minimumwage</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a>

WenThere are hard choices to be made and don’t worry, Starmer and Reeves will make it easier for us, oh I mean them<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cartoon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JonDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonDavis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reeves</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Selection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Selection</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/19/reeves-to-reveal-biggest-uk-spending-cuts-since-austerity-in-spring-statement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/19/reeves-to-reveal-biggest-uk-spending-cuts-since-austerity-in-spring-statement</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OperationChainsaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OperationChainsaw</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a>

Kim PeralesTrump’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 <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpMusk</a> regime's <a href="https://toad.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> plan.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hunger</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453</a>

Paris MarxElon 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.<a href="https://www.disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-going-global-it-needs-to" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-going-global-it-needs-to</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elonmusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nz</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Immoral Starmer wants us little people to suffer so his rich friends can profit. If he's going to for some 'moral high ground' he is more deluded than we thought. "It's morally right to make the Poor suffer and let the Rich off their Taxes, I can bend the meanings of words like JD Vance, I'm a good person" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Couchfucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Couchfucker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a>

Colin Macleod'No-One Voted for These Cruel Cuts - We Need a Wealth Tax Instead' - Byline Times <a href="https://apple.news/ASYa-8AHEQQeKhKmwEWXJIw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apple.news/ASYa-8AHEQQeKhKmwEWXJIw</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/taxtherich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taxtherich</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayThis 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.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/labour-welfare-force-disabled-out-of-work-pip-starmer-benefits/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/labour-welfare-force-disabled-out-of-work-pip-starmer-benefits/</a>

Seonaidh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Like the Tories, Labour seems only too keen to keep socialism for the rich - see the £1bn handout to billionaire Jim Radcliffe who is closing the Grangemouth petro-chemical plant - while foisting austerity on the rest of us.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SirKidStarver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SirKidStarver</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RedTories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RedTories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disabled</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"Work Shall Set You Free"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"Crackdown"Like benefit claimants are criminals, interesting use of words there. Will there every be 'crackdown' on rich tax cheats?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOLITICS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Why are "1000 new people every day claiming Disability?" Is it because we are all 'lazy' as our Government thinks, or a Pandemic has been allowed to run through us many times, degrading our bodies with each hit? But oh, we don't want to upset the ECONOMY now do we? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOLITICS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID19</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Like Gilead's 'Operation Chainsaw' and like the Dems 'pivoting to the right' Every mistake made in Gilead, Starmer's Labour will also try to makePathetic and election losing, but they don't care. They just want to see people suffer, to make them feel good. Like tories....<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-live-starmer-speech-ukraine-zelenskyy-war-trump-welfare-cuts-tories-reform-12593360" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-live-starmer-speech-ukraine-zelenskyy-war-trump-welfare-cuts-tories-reform-12593360</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈All the usual suspects are suddenly experts in Mental Health, none of them are reflecting the reality, but it's easier to blame the Disabled that Tax The Rich, isn't it?Sharing this also for "Tony Blair, whose transformation into know-nothing golf-club pontificator is still startling after all this time " <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/labour-is-gaslighting-disabled-people-and-that-should-terrify-us-all" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/labour-is-gaslighting-disabled-people-and-that-should-terrify-us-all</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a>

Geriatric GardenerWhy is *anyone* surprised? “Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence”by Nesrine Malik in the Grauniad <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@UKLabour</a>“Today, with Reform waiting in the wings, the price of not raising the alarm on a Labour party that will not change course will be nothing short of catastrophic”<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WFA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reeves</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Streeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Streeting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TwoChildBenefitCap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TwoChildBenefitCap</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChildPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildPoverty</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hypocrisy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lies</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryContinuityParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryContinuityParty</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayNicola Jennings sums up a lot of people's feelings right now<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a>

Mark Burton"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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/benefit-cuts-labour-mps-disabled-sick" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/benefit-cuts-labour-mps-disabled-sick</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#welfare</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayAs pressure builds on Rachel Reeves to relax or shift her self-imposed fiscal rules, the Q. is whether she is one of those people who respond to pressure by doubling down on the criticised decision.As so often (as Modern Monetary Theory adopts are no doubt screaming), the idea that the state could create credit (as with Quantitive Easing in 2008 onwards) is being ignored... if ever there was a time for the idea of a People's QE, now is that time!<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/15/economists-urge-rachel-reeves-to-bend-fiscal-rules-instead-of-cutting-welfare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/15/economists-urge-rachel-reeves-to-bend-fiscal-rules-instead-of-cutting-welfare</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayApparently 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.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#benefits</a> h/t Simon Fletcher/Modern Left

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