@Geri It would not surprise me if they deliberately used that misleading and inaccurate figure to push through and convince some of the MPs of the urgent necessity to reduce PIP, disability payments and more. #LabourInNameOnly are creating worse #Austerity that even the reprehensible #Tory party ever did.
The CD Howe Institute is trying to make working until you drop dead cool again.
"Canada should raise retirement age to 67 to address labour shortages: report"
#Canada #cdnpoli #CanadianPolitics #austerity #workersrights
#Labour campaigned on a vision of welfare reform that emphasized dignity, opportunity, and fixing a "broken system" - language that signalled improvement.
But months after their landslide victory, #austerity has emerged again. The reformed #PIP criteria excludes hundreds of thousands of disabled people. The Work Capability Assessment is to be abolished. Ppl under 22 with health conditions would be denied additional support & Winter Fuel Payments have been stripped from millions of pensioners
Next Wednesday, #Reeves is set to announce cuts to Whitehall budgets by billions in a move that could mean reductions of seven percent cent for certain departments, with economists warning it could harm key public services
It is hard not to call this #austerity
“Here’s the thing about austerity: you can only do it once.”
Another rather self-evident truth that Rachel (“I am an economist”) Reeves hasn’t learned.
Via @paternoster
https://national.thelead.uk/p/labour-can-slice-it-however-they
Today in Labor History March 20, 1985: The Bolivian authorities sent in the army to crush a General Strike. Workers had launched the strike in response to austerity measures by the Siles Zuazo administration. They demanded higher wages, stable food supplies, price controls and the president’s resignation. At the time, inflation was 3,400%. 10,000 miners filled the streets of La Paz each day. The General Strike lasted 16 days and spread to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca. On March 24, the miners accepted a government offer to quadruple the minimum wage. They eventually forced Zuazo to resign.
"Since Austerity" — as if Austerity ever went away. Have the cuts imposed by George Osborne been recovered? Are those SureStart centres, libraries and youth clubs reopened, restaffed and re-resourced? Are those potholes fixed, hospitals built, schools repaired, school playing fields returned? Are the waiting times for social care services, GP appointments and hospital care back to 2010 figures?
This is Austerity upon Austerity.
Trump’s AG Dept has halted 100s of $Ms worth of deliveries to food banks. USDA had previously allocated $500M in deliveries to them for fiscal year 2025 through Emergency Food Asst Prgm. Food bank leaders: many of those orders: CXL -on top of $1B CXL last week for school lunch purchases from loc farms.
Every GOP Senator & Rep must be asked if they support AMERICANS
GOING HUNGRY.
We'll have starving children
bc of the #TrumpMusk regime's #austerity plan.
#Hunger #USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453
Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences.
But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-going-global-it-needs-to
#Labour in GB: »This is #austerity dressed up as reform, where the government cuts the money disabled people need to live on in order to balance the books, while claiming it’s all being done to help them« https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/benefit-cuts-labour-reforms-george-osborne-politicians
When the tories fake more concern for the Public than you fake...
Oh, the great Moral Starmer is taxing hospices now, instead of taxing the rich....
“The Labour government is now coming for SEND children, too”
by HG in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
“The Labour government have launched attacks on children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and people with mental health diagnoses”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/18/labour-party-send-policy/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
'No-One Voted for These Cruel Cuts - We Need a Wealth Tax Instead' - Byline Times https://apple.news/ASYa-8AHEQQeKhKmwEWXJIw
#ukpolitics #labour #austerity #taxtherich
It had to happen. Take a front bench position and jettison a former commitment to evidence-based policy.
Welsh Labour MP (Torsten Bell) clashes with think tank (Resolution ) he used to run over benefit cuts.
https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-labour-mp-clashes-with-think-tank-he-used-to-run-over-benefit-cuts/
#UKPol #Labour #austerity #WelfareCuts
This morning there are lots of responses to Labour's proposed cuts to disability benefits, here are just two:
1. As Anna Landre argues, what the Govt. actually needs to do is: 'ask disabled people who want to work what keeps them from doing so & construct targeted policies to address those barriers'...
rather than just assume they know the answers & can make disabled people's decisions about support for them.
#disability #benefits #austerity
https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/labour-welfare-force-disabled-out-of-work-pip-starmer-benefits/
Will the threat of Trump end Germany’s austerity zeal? – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/841457/ #AngelaMerkel #austerity #Budget #ColdWar #Competitiveness #Debt #Defense #DonaldTrump #Elections #FriedrichMerz #Germany #Growth #GüntherOettinger #history #INFRASTRUCTURE #Kremlin #Military #Policy #Security #Tax #Ukraine #UnitedStates #VladimirPutin #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WolfgangSchäuble
Like the Tories, Labour seems only too keen to keep socialism for the rich - see the £1bn handout to billionaire Jim Radcliffe who is closing the Grangemouth petro-chemical plant - while foisting austerity on the rest of us.
Why are "1000 new people every day claiming Disability?"
Is it because we are all 'lazy' as our Government thinks, or a Pandemic has been allowed to run through us many times, degrading our bodies with each hit?
But oh, we don't want to upset the ECONOMY now do we?
