@snowleopardess Funny how millions who work in the UK are living in poverty and have to have their wages topped up with Universal Credit. What a mess this country is in and there's no hope insight. Almost every party demonises the poor and disabled...its shameless.
I hear that a backbench MP will be reintroducing the assisted suicide bill.
I cannot think of a more tone-deaf thing to do at a time of national malaise, particularly as the bill divides the Labour Party, and has been rejected by every medical royal college that took a view.
Some people heard Farage's call for pure rage and decided to burn people out of their homes. Now he wants to use the State to achieve the same ends.
Farage to ban foreign nationals from social housing
https://t.co/yvH2iIYH5E
Politicians: STOP talking about cutting #SocialSecurity#benefits further! They are already too low!
#UniversalCredit per month:
Single & under 25: £338.58
Single & over 25: £424.90
Couple under 25: £528.34
Couple over 25: £666.97
Carer's Allowance: £86.45 a week
This lad begins with a semi-analytic and moralistic post on means-testing state pensions, then posts this underneath. A right-wing ideological commitment to privatisation and rolling back the state. Thatcherism. They've learned nothing since 1979. https://t.co/mibFJMj7BB
Reminder to @Keir_Starmer@AndyBurnhamGM@wesstreeting, @AlistairCarns, et al.:
Disability welfare, 2024-2025: £46.3bn (DWP)
Uncollected tax, 2024-25: £46.8bn (HMRC)
What's the bigger issue?
(It's a £0.5bn question)
Are disabled people's lives not worth defending? Tell us why.
The assisted suicide Bill is a dangerous mess of a Bill, with fewer safeguards than when it began. If the exact same shambles is revived, it will face strong opposition.
Labour MP Lauren Edwards to reintroduce assisted suicide Bill
https://t.co/Nd2c4FT45N
.@AndyBurnhamGM Your talk about cutting the "welfare bill" (ie #SocialSecurity#benefits) is horrific! #Disabled people, like me, and my #carer husband have experienced years of benefit #cuts & freezes. Have you even looked at how low the amounts people get actually are?
I'm a resident of your constituency. As a practicing psychotherapist and counsellor your Bill will absolutely make a difference to me and my work, but for all the wrong reasons. This Bill must be stopped. Again.
@troovus UK Benefits are the lowest in the developed world
UK Defence spending is one of the highest globally much if it wasted by the MoD
So why is Burnham going along with this madness?
So after 15 years of benefits claimants being squeezed, scapegoated, tormented and vilified, while the rich have trebled their wealth, Andy Burnham wants to … squeeze benefits claimants