#LabourAusterity

JuneSim63Research from the homelessness charity Crisis and the campaign group Health Equals found fewer than three in every 100 private rental properties listed in England were affordable for people on housing benefit between April and October 2024.The Labour freeze on housing benefit will push many more thousands into homelessness and arrears.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxTheRich</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/01/private-renting-england-affordable-housing-benefit-study?CMP=firstedition_email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/01/private-renting-england-affordable-housing-benefit-study?CMP=firstedition_email</a>

Political Cartoon GalleryDave Brown's <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RoguesGallery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoguesGallery</a> after <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WTSmedley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WTSmedley</a> @Independent on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelReeves</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourParty</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BenefitCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenefitCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WelfareCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ChildPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildPoverty</a> – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

JuneSim63Very apt for today from Matt Green.Tough Choices!<a href="https://youtu.be/7r0eXRPysTE?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/7r0eXRPysTE?feature=shared</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a>

Green Party NI💚 As the Spring Statement approaches, let’s be clear: we need policies that protect people, not punish them.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EndPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndPoverty</a>

Green Party NI5️⃣ Austerity doesn’t fix deficits – it worsens them. When people struggle to afford basics, economic activity slows, tax revenues drop, and public finances suffer. Austerity is a failed experiment. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a>

Dial M For Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪"It breaks my heart to know so many people in a country as wealthy and developed as the UK are experiencing hunger."Through my work with Trussell, I know that the reality of these cuts will be parents in disabled families having to skip meals so that they can feed their children."Things don't have to be this way. We must shout as loud as we can to let the UK Government know this plan is wrong."● Stanley Tucci via The National<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourBetrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourBetrayal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BOHICA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BOHICA</a>

Dial M For Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪Sarwar has lost what control he had of the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OptionalIdentityMark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OptionalIdentityMark</a>. He's had his chips, just like his bogus "party".<a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/25026708.anas-sarwar-denies-scottish-labour-fallout-benefit-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.scot/news/25026708.anas-sarwar-denies-scottish-labour-fallout-benefit-cuts/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SarwarLiesToScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SarwarLiesToScotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SarwarGaslightsScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SarwarGaslightsScotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Liebour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liebour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourBetrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourBetrayal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WeWarnedYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeWarnedYou</a>

JuneSim63"Through my work with Trussell, I know the reality of these cuts will be parents in disabled families having to skip meals so that they can feed their children. Things don’t have to be this way. We must shout as loud as we can to let the UK government know this plan is wrong.” Stanley Tucci<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PIP</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BenefitCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenefitCuts</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitcs</a>‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits | Welfare | The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/21/stain-on-this-country-celebrities-condemn-cuts-to-uk-disability-benefits?CMP=GTUK_email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/21/stain-on-this-country-celebrities-condemn-cuts-to-uk-disability-benefits?CMP=GTUK_email</a>

JuneSim63Time once again to post Richard Murphy's 'Taxing Wealth Report" in the light of more rumoured cuts from Rachel 'Austerity' Reeves."The Taxing Wealth Report shows that by making up to thirty relatively simple changes to existing UK taxes, up to £90 billion of new tax revenue could be raised a year, entirely from those who are well off or who are straightforwardly wealthy. Only those in the top 10% of income earners should be affected"<a href="https://taxingwealth.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://taxingwealth.uk/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TaxingWealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxingWealth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a>

JuneSim63"Increasingly I’m trying to figure out what we’re doing that the Tories wouldn’t be if they were in power.”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a>Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement | Economic policy | The Guardian <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>

Dial M For Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourBetrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourBetrayal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourLies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourInNameOnly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourInNameOnly</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OptionalIdentityMark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OptionalIdentityMark</a>

Dial M For Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪“To paraphrase Neil Kinnock’s 1983 speech[,] under this Labour Government – I warn you not to be ordinary – I warn you not to be young – I warn you not to fall ill – I warn you not to get old.”● Neil Findlay, former Labour MSP in a letter to Starmer, 19/3/2025<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourInNameOnly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourInNameOnly</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourBetrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourBetrayal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/VoteStarmerGetThatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteStarmerGetThatcher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OptionalIdentityMark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OptionalIdentityMark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WeWarnedYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeWarnedYou</a>

Dial M For Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪● BBC Scotland leaders' debate, 11/6/2024:"Sarwar said there will be "unequivocally no austerity under a Labour government"."He added "Read my lips. No austerity under Labour."● The National, 19/3/2025: "Sarwar silent as Labour MSPs push UK ministers to block DWP cuts."<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SarwarLiesToScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SarwarLiesToScotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SarwarGaslightsScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SarwarGaslightsScotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourBetrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourBetrayal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OptionalIdentityMark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OptionalIdentityMark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WeWarnedYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeWarnedYou</a>

Dial M For Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪The UK "Labour" Party was finally administered the coup de grâce this afternoon.Starmer Kendall et al are Thatcherite Tories pandering to the extreme right at home and abroad. Sarwar is their useful idiot in Scotland.● Who will defend "The Many" now?<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LabourBetrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourBetrayal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WeWarnedYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeWarnedYou</a>

JuneSim63These b@stards are cutting £6bn from the poorest and most vulnerable in society. If they want to find the money, simply create it and cancel the debt by taxing those who avoid their legal responsibilities. I've just protested to my MP. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Benefits</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a>Starmer braces for rebellion over welfare cuts as Labour accused of ‘pushing disabled people into poverty’ <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-braces-for-rebellion-over-welfare-cuts-as-labour-accused-of-pushing-disabled-people-into-poverty/ar-AA1ABmfE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-braces-for-rebellion-over-welfare-cuts-as-labour-accused-of-pushing-disabled-people-into-poverty/ar-AA1ABmfE</a>

JuneSim63Work & pensions secretary Liz Kendall plans to keep £1.3bn in cuts to UK sickness benefits announced by the previous Tory government. This will affect half a million of the most vulnerable people. She also plans to keep the draconian Tory changes to work capability assessments, in order to 'encourage' disabled people into work.Kendall was the only Labour leadership candidate in 2015 to fully back Tory welfare cuts.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DWP</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a><a href="https://archive.is/ndpE4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/ndpE4</a>

JuneSim63Most (58%) people facing hunger and hardship were in a household where at least one person is working. Almost four in 10 people in households claiming universal credit were in hunger and hardship.A new study from Trussell shows more than 9 million Britons are now vulnerable to reliance on food banks.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FoodBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoodBanks</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hunger</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/09/britons-vulnerable-reliance-food-banks-research-finds?CMP=GTUK_email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/09/britons-vulnerable-reliance-food-banks-research-finds?CMP=GTUK_email</a>

JuneSim63After the government was forced to reveal that 71% of pensioners with disabilities will lose the winter fuel allowance, groups representing disabled people are demanding urgent meetings with ministers.The internal DWP analysis also suggested that eight out of 10 over-80s would lose their allowance. These are also the people still on the old, lower state pension of £169 per week.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pensioners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pensioners</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WinterFuelAllowance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WinterFuelAllowance</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/15/charities-demand-to-meet-uk-ministers-as-16m-disabled-oaps-set-to-lose-winter-fuel-payments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/15/charities-demand-to-meet-uk-ministers-as-16m-disabled-oaps-set-to-lose-winter-fuel-payments</a>

JuneSim63Starmer is talking bollocks. There is no need for a round of further Tory austerity. There are many ways of raising the necessary billions, if only he and Reeves could ditch their craven adherence to neoliberal ideology and 'fiscal rectitude'. They could start by taxing capital gains at the same rate as income tax and restricting pension tax relief to the basic rate. This would more than cover their fictional £22bn black hole.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/24/keir-starmer-warns-of-tough-times-ahead-to-fix-tory-ruins" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/24/keir-starmer-warns-of-tough-times-ahead-to-fix-tory-ruins</a>

Hazel (She/ Her)Tory Starmer's non-policy stance is so depressing <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2023/07/24/tories-cataclysmic-failure-proves-labour-more-like-tories/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2023/07/24/tories-cataclysmic-failure-proves-labour-more-like-tories/</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/SirKidStarver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SirKidStarver</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/LabourPartyMyArse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourPartyMyArse</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/NotMyLabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NotMyLabourParty</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/StarmerIsToryScum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarmerIsToryScum</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/ToryScum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryScum</a>

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