Rachel Reeves’ disability benefits cuts will hurt women most | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disability-benefits-cuts-hurt-women-most-carers-rachel-reeves-keir-starmer/
#CraigMurray | Starmer’s Thatcherite Economics
" If the aim was actually to reduce the fiscal deficit, taxing those who have money would be far more sensible than taking money from those who do not.
But actually that is not the object at all. The object is to convince the neoliberal finance system that this is a safely neoliberal government, willing to hurt the poor and leave the wealthy untouched."
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/03/starmers-thatcherite-economics/
You can only support the current manifestation of late stage capitalism, if you believe that massive inequality of wealth is necessary to wealth creation, or if you believe that the total amount of wealth is unimportant so long as a very small minority are extremely wealthy. “Trickledown economics” is at heart simply a statement of […]
pls spread this to anyone UK-based, esp if they might otherwise believe the oh-so-considerate Department for Work and Pensions' nonsense. https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-issues-second-dodgy-press-release-in-attempt-to-trick-media-into-supporting-cuts-to-disability-benefits/
#UnitedKingdom #DisabilityRightsUK #disability #disabled #illness #chronicillness #injury #OccupationalHealth #DWP #work #SocialWork #job #jobs #money #GBP #UK #policy #benefits #BenefitsCuts #PIP #PersonalIndependencePayment #ESA #EmploymentSupportAllowance #unemployment #political #choice #defund #SocialMurder
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a second misleading press release in consecutive weeks as it tries to trick the mainstream media into supporting its controversial cuts to disa…
Work is not inherently valuable; YOU are inherently valuable.
Disagree? Fight me.
https://nebula.tv/videos/jaredhenderson-how-work-took-over-the-world/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvGDdV83jnY
#isolation #communication #GuiltToWork #Job #Expectation #society #social #Work #Pressure #Career #Requirement #demands #benefits #BenefitsCuts #BenefitsClaimants #SocialSecurity #CultOfWork
Minister defending Labour’s £5bn benefits cuts admits he couldn’t live on £70 a week | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-cuts-welfare-pip-minister-labour-b2717720.html
... ok so these fuckers really ARE trying to kill us.
relevant af https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ROtVQt98s
I'm so close to the fucking edge this year.
I got a 1 kg bag of tapioca pearls for boba tea to make cheaper at home so I can still have a treat. Saw the price tag and was like "hmmm. *Do* I want / deserve an easy sweet treat I can add nutrient powder to as needed and sip for hydration?"
I got it in the end, but everyone deserves nice things. Yes, even the people you hate. Even the asshole down the street. Maybe if they got nice things and felt nicer, they might be kinder to people around them, idfk.
#UK #UKpol #pol #politics #UK_politics #UKpolitics #DWP #PIP #UC #UniversalCredit #disability #disabled #DisabledSocial #disabilities #MassDisablingEvent #LongCovid #MECFS #LearningDifficulty #LearningDisability #SpLDiff #SpecificLearningDifficulty #money #cash #currency #policy #PolicyAnalysis #spending #budget #economy #equality #inequality #benefits #BenefitsCuts #BenefitsClaimants #illness #ChronicHealth #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness
‘Long Covid forced me to quit the job I loved’: Benefit cuts fears of thousands still too ill to work | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/long-covid-benefit-cuts-labour-government-nhs-b2713878.html
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