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stressed76
stressed76 Community Member Posts: 95 Empowering
edited September 2025 in Current affairs

Pat Mcfadden becomes DWP minister is this good or bad?

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  • Martinp
    Martinp Community Member Posts: 249 Empowering

    bad bad bad

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    If you could add some reasoning to that @Martinp it'd be appreciated. We don't want to scare people here please.

  • KG100
    KG100 Community Member Posts: 306 Empowering

    I think he's also combining his DWP role with another department, Sky news calling it a super department.

  • Martinp
    Martinp Community Member Posts: 249 Empowering

    sorry albus just a personal opinion, don’t want to worry anyone as he might be great.

  • KG100
    KG100 Community Member Posts: 306 Empowering
    edited September 2025

    They're calling it a new super ministry, and will include the skills remit of the department of education and DWP combined.

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    Oh no worries at all @Martinp we just find it's better if people can say why they think it'd be good or bad. 😊

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  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    His voting record on welfare etc can be found here for anyone interested in having a look? 😊 He's consistently voted against drops in benefits.

  • Martinp
    Martinp Community Member Posts: 249 Empowering

    Good old Liz been moved to the science innovation department

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    David Lammy as deputy prime minister, you should Google him on mastermind. Pat mcfadden as well as dwp , he's taking over skills which what used to education. Pity reeves wasn't booted out.

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    Just googled, he defended the cuts Kendall and starmer were doing. There been furough about him claiming Β£40.000 on expenses for his house and he owns the next door house

  • Ironside1990
    Ironside1990 Community Member Posts: 400 Pioneering

    I'I'm surprised.'Im not sure how old that pic of Liz Kendal is, that was posted on Twitter announcing her new post, but she looks happy even though she's lost the DWP job. The one she's waited years for.

  • Dianaf
    Dianaf Community Member Posts: 109 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065342#Comment_1065342

    Yes just looked it up. He defended all the proposed cuts to pip. Why do you think starmer has given him the job. It's very bad news 😞

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  • Ironside1990
    Ironside1990 Community Member Posts: 400 Pioneering

    ^Would've thought she'd be annoyed.

  • Grissom123
    Grissom123 Community Member Posts: 116 Empowering

    Does this mean that the Universal Credit Bill will now be scrapped, or is it still going to go ahead?

  • axab43
    axab43 Community Member Posts: 73 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065422#Comment_1065422

    From what I understand that bill has become law. I don't understand what further reforms they are going to try and push through as they have already cut Universal Credit for all new claimants, and PIP is being reviewed anyway in the Timms reports next year. I don't see what else they can do? I don't know if any one else does on here.

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