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"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
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#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?By John McDonnell

#Skwawkbox | Starmer just abolished the NHS, not just the ‘NHS England’ quango

"Presented as an efficiency move, to get rid of duplicate layers of management within the NHS, it is in fact a move to complete the long-underway break-up of the National Health Service into 42 autonomous ‘Integrated Care Boards’ (ICBs) that will each independently commission services – and will be incentivised not to treat people, by giving ICBs a share of the ‘savings’ generated by rationing or withholding care."

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/14/starm

SKWAWKBOX · Starmer just abolished the NHS, not just the ‘NHS England’ quangoMove represents final step toward replacement of NATIONAL Health Service with 42 ‘Integrated Care Boards’ incentivised to close hospitals and ration treatment The Starmer government&#82…

"..the climate crisis poses a bigger existential threat to this country than Putin does – or ever will, so if money can be found for the military there’s no reason why it couldn’t also be found to accelerate the drive for self-sufficiency in clean energy. That might really do something for national security"

#Defence #Putin #UKPolitics #Labour

Labour needs an urgent history lesson. Its plans couldn’t fund a war and won’t boost growth | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Labour needs an urgent history lesson. Its plans couldn’t fund a war and won’t boost growthBy Larry Elliott

"Some MPs have told the BBC that potential changes to payments for disabled people would be "unacceptable" and they "wouldn't wear it". The detail of the plans will be unveiled next week by Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall, and the full scale of spending reductions unveiled by the chancellor the week after in the Spring Statement."

#UKPol #Labour #Disability #Benefits #DWP

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygx9

Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaks to reporters, wearing a scarlet open necked shirt, a navy suit jacket and a gold choker chain, with small gold hoop earrings.
BBC NewsReeves insists changes to welfare needed as MPs call for flexibilityLabour MPs have been expressing unease about the proposed cuts to welfare, ahead of announcements next week.
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@aral @ChrisMayLA6

Lest we forget:

“Keir Starmer is without moral rectitude. He is a deceiver, utterly duplicitous, a political confidence trickster, and he surrounds himself with equally iniquitous and unvirtuous carpetbaggers, warmongers, and anti-socialist Machiavellian pantomime characters, such as the weasel Streeting.”

quoting Rachel Swindon in her blogpost of Feb 20, 2022

rachaelswindon.blogspot.com/20

How can the strategy of the #Labour Party, which raised NI for employers and therefore have made it more expensive to employ people, be reconciled with their crusade of "the moral duty of getting people back to work"

We want people to work, but we are going to make it harder for employers to create vacancies

It doesn't make sense