REFORM HAVE SAID THEY WILL CUT ALL BENEFITS

I remember my granny saying that some people are only happy when they're miserable.

Retirement ages are rising all over the world, because people are living longer. I know people locally who retired in their mid fifties, and are still out golfing and gardening in thier 80s, even 90s.

A neighbour's father died in 2019, aged 99. He had still been out golfing at 95. This gentleman was a family friend, and he worked a butcher until 84, my own maternal grandfather until 77, in the very same butcher's shop.

Many retiring now, they can expect several decades of relatively good health. Should the young workers with families support them from the age of 60? Not all will have fat private pensions.

I even know a Scope member who would still be working if they could, pension age or otherwise!

I was thinking this way, but it has become completely out of hand, reform are changing their policies every 5 minutes, and they make sure its in the news, with their constant press conferences. On average there seems to now be a benefit news story every week now, which is madness as the other parties arent a lot better.

It has become the biggest talking point of the country probably even more so than immigration now.

All the social media advocates have ended up drawing too much attention to it, they probably need to stop everything they doing at this point, too many youtubers tiktokers etc. That lady who was ex DWP staff, I seen a few of her videos, she is just pumping out videos for the sake of it at this point, just triggering fear.

You also have people either pretending or boasting about their own laziness on UC, to boost their social media channel, but people buy in to it and it fuels the resentment.

One social media advocate admitted she stopped helping people as she decided it was all out of hand, and she felt some asking for help were not legit. Admitted it was a mistake raising awareness on the internet.

So now I limit my focus to actual announced government policy changes like the white paper, and try to ignore everything else. Even the purpl website has started a blog on reporting on disability news, which I dont like, as its just more negativity.

Benefits and work at least just concentrates on what changes at the DWP level, rather than all speculation, Reform fear etc.

@Wibbles can you provide proof that Reform "have NO policies"