"Already, Trump has waged war on everything that builds prosperity and wellbeing ... Yet, amid the wreckage, ..., his approval ratings still hold between 43 and 48% ... Why? I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded."

https://www.monbiot.com/2025/04/14/the-urge-to-destroy/

#Authoritarianism #USPoli #Inequality #GeorgeMonbiot #RightWing #Populism #LossOfTrust #Exclusion #Austerity

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

In 2013, peers warned that sweeping benefit changes – from Universal Credit to PIP – would do the exact opposite of what the government claimed.

Lower work incentives, harsher sanctions, increased homelessness, and brutal treatment of disabled people were all predicted… and have come to pass.

Now, with Labour in power, the same machinery of misery is being switched on again. It's time to speak out.

Read the evidence, remember the history, and decide where you stand: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=97783

#UniversalCredit #PIP #WelfareReform #DWP #SocialJustice #DisabilityRights #BenefitCuts #Labour #Tories #Austerity #StatutoryInstruments #VoxPolitical

"$150 billion: that’s the grand total of savings Elon Musk revealed last Thursday that he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are expecting to make after months of ruthless and often mindless cuts from a government the billionaire Trump megadonor claimed was riddled with fraud, waste, and graft.

To call this a monumentally unimpressive number doesn’t do it justice. Musk’s “savings” here — which are already error-ridden and inflated in the first place, created by totaling up spending that never actually existed or that was, alternately, either already cut or never actually was — represent just 15 percent of the trillion dollars he originally promised he would slash. It’s a mere one-fiftieth of what the federal government spent just last year alone, would shave off only one-tenth of one year’s worth of the average federal deficit over the past decade, and is a whopping less than half a percent of the overall $36.21 trillion of US national debt.

In fact, government spending so far under Donald Trump has actually gone up compared to the last two years under Joe Biden. Three months of Musk feeding the US government through a woodchipper has done less than nothing about the ostensible problem it was meant to solve."

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/musk-doge-savings-austerity-spending

#USA #Trump #DOGE #Musk #Austerity

Crips Against Cuts

https://basebristol.org/2025/04/18/crips-against-cuts-broadmead-protest-saturday-26th-april-2-4pm/

We’re fighting back against brutal cuts to disabled people’s support. PIP fraud is less than 0.02% — so why are we being punished?

Broadmead Protest – Saturday 26th April – 2-4pm | BASE Social Centre

#CripsAgainstCuts #UK #BristolCAC #Austerity #DeathPolicies #ClassWar #Protest #GetInvolved

When did this come in ….. When trump keels over from an overloaded diaper, this xenophobic wanker and utter twat is in charge…. Also, wait until he finds out about Pakistan!!

#brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #toryscum #austerity #ReformUK #LizTruss #uspol #uspolitics #trump #DonaldTrump #jdvance