Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)
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Ah that's some hopefulness for this absolute **** day! Thank you. Put a bit more optimism in my head, something to hold on to with these changes. I've just been feeling so desperate all day today
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FroFrom my understanding starting 2026/2027 fiscal year. So we have a year to save loads or win the lottery to be OK.
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Jeremy Corbyn asked about the welfare reforms. Said there are over 4 million children living in poverty, over 1 million people in receipt of PIP that will lose it because of her statement. She's put a huge amount of money into defences. Could she not think to reverse the cuts to welfare and end two child benefit cap that have pushed people into really desperate poverty.
Reeves' response: I'm going to make any apologies for putting more money into defence. This Labour Government takes defence seriously and so we should. We are the party that created NATO and under the leadership of the Labour Government today, we will always defend our country
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To me Reeves, Kendall and Starmer have a script given in regards of disability/incapacity benefits and that script has been playing out since 2023 when the Telegraph pushed how much disabled people cost the tax payer article.
Attack line after attack line, hit piece after hit piece, over and over again trying to sway public opinion against the disabled/incapacitated and the buck was passed from the Tories to Labour in order to enact harsh cuts and THEY KNOW they'll plunge people into poverty and they do not care.
Am I surprised Labour have gone this far? Yes, I suspected they'll do something about Welfare but not on this level.
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Is there somewhere we can read the OBR? I noticed they kept quoting it for economic boosts but don't know where to find it
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Rachel Reeves will not been in post for much longer. She is stultifying growth with both this benefits policy and about to increase debt as her small business taxes begin to hit. Disabled people do spend money! Not much… but you put them on a pittance and the economy will be affected. They’ve jumped the gun, no jobs, no ‘specialist’ work coaches or AI systems in place.. it’s a disaster. I give her three months, six months tops. When the economy fails to grow in the autumn she’ll be out.
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How is this going to work with the migration to UC & TP? As I understand it there is no provision to remove the equivalent of SDP if you lose PIP or get a carer after you migrate, you just stay as you are. Given that, are we going to see a flurry of reassessments to remove the SDP or are they going to delay the migration? I'm not due for reassessment till 2027, but if they want to wrench my SDP off me maybe they'll bring it forward. I'll be destitute when they take everything, I'll be homeless and lose my dog. Even if they keep my 8 pts for engagement as it stands, I don't think I'll be able to cope waiting for that letter for months, knowing what's at stake. I'm going to have a breakdown or a stroke waiting for that axe to fall.
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Sophy Ridge, Sky News has just twitted this in the past hour.
'50,000 children will be pushed into poverty as a result of the changes to welfare - and a total of 250,000 peopleThat's according to the Gvt's own impact assessment.'
Several Labour MPs already expressing their disquiet.
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From Benefits and work
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In terms of PIP changes, I get 8 pts for engagement & 2 for prompting in a few other categories. What worries me is reading between the lines there seems to be a desire to remove prompting completely in the descriptors, then the only route to PIP for MH will be engagement, I'm worried they will drop it to 4 points, that will mean I will go from EDL to nothing and lose LCWRA. Nothing seems improbable anymore.
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What boggles my mind is how on earth can they justify this, utter cretins, heartless cowardly creatures.
How can anyone justify throwing people into poverty?
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Plus 3,000,000 people hit with the cuts to disability benefits. On all the news channels
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Better deal with the EU would deliver 2.2% GDP growth
Her plans 0.05% Growth, See the problem with Reeves?
She talks about Global Changes but not changed enough to talk #brexit
this is the crux of the blackhole we face, Labour MP's and the Unions are at the crossroads now, they are elected by us to be the voice of US. If they pretend this isnt a full out attack on disabled people because clearly like when he stood for the leadership, Feckless Starmer changes his policies depending on the last wealthy person he spoke with.
windfall tax on energy companies
Wealth tax even at 2% would bring in billions
Tax on online gambling firms and online retailers
the lowest 50% of the population *all of us spend the most and put the most back into the economy, Wales is gone, Scotland the same. No wonder they were so silent in the GE
and Rayner can appear on TV smiling saying "Working class people dont like handouts"
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It is political suicide, this won't go through in my opinion .
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This is a planned 'CULLING' of the sick, vulnerable and disabled.
The more of us they can 'cull', the more money they will save.
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Assuming they are not disabled .
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Police got horses out against disabled for welfarenotwarfare protest… cant make this stuff up at all.
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