Wednesday: Statement on Benefits
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I'm not overtly political, I try to stay out of it unless it's of importance because I know it's a divisive subject but Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell standing up for disabled rights gets my respect.
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Go on to parliament tv website. Search put today s date and scroll down, Alison mcgovern will come . She's saying about getting people into work, still watching
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God john and jeremy blew my mind blew my mind im crying at the compassion
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And john mcDonnell Thankyou Thankyou
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Oh jeremy we lost you Thankyou thankyou for being an amazing human being
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Jeremy and john wow wow blew me away
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And kirsty blackman spot on
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Him john and kirsty really spoke for us really did
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Oh i know i punched the air
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Whats the end part mean the ayes have it ??
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John said there will be outrage regardijg wca
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Yes also because ellen clifford win wanted to get people against disabled
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You do you always really really help everyone im so glad i watched it wow just wow jeremy john kirsty amazing
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who’s Kirsty ? Is she an independent also . Would be good to hear some back benchers fighting our corner
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Can someone please tell me the outcome of the outcome of Liz Kendalls speech and benefits as I didn't watch it?.
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I don't think there was a speech by Kendall. It seems she and Reeves didn't turn up and left it all to Allison McGovern. But Kendall did publish a written statement, which I posted a link to in this thread somewhere.
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I will see if I can fund.This is utterly disgraceful leaving us all justwatching and waiting
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Right. Autism (ASD) is not mental illness. However, misdiagnosis and mishandling of ASD can result in crippling MH issues.
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What's the benefits cap, Alison mcgovern mentioned today ?
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Hi @Andi66
Alison McGovern who was standing in for Liz Kendall today was referring to the welfare cap. It is a set amount of money that the government of the day are allowed to spend on certain welfare benefits each year (introduced by George Osborne in 2014). The current welfare cap was set by the Conservative government in the Spring of 2020. Today's motion was for MPs to agree that this welfare cap is going to be breached by £8 billion this year and to agree to put it through.
See link:
The welfare cap - House of Commons LibraryThis is not to be confused with the benefit cap, which is a cap on the amount of benefits that a household can receive depending on which benefits they claim (also introduced by George Osborne).
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