Lords want to cut disability benefit

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  • stressed76
    stressed76 Online Community Member Posts: 95 Empowering

    Also thanks to nightcity & everyone else who commented on (looks ike closed as i messed up my log in information) question about the daily record article

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,807 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/979163#Comment_979163

    For any government minister to vote against, they would have to resign; collective responsibility you see. Think Michael Heseltine resigning from Thatcher's cabinet over the Westland affair.

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    So the government want to offer up to 18 billion pounds for the chago Islands. Thought we had no money ridiculous

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,807 Championing

    Cutting back in one department doesn't mean more will go to Social Security. The treasury doesn't run like a household budget.budget.

    Btw, we have one or two historical wrongs to answer for in the Chagos archipelago.

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    It's disgusting, I despair with this, and the government. With the island they want to remain in British hands. Not Mauritius. Which is never been part of them and are a great distance from it. Mauritius is in cohoots with China, and labour are cosing up to them. The islands have a American airbase on. So also it risks all that. Saying also about starmer having his voice coach during 2020 on xmas eve. Didn't work lol , remember his count down to his xmas tree lights.

  • Tumilty
    Tumilty Online Community Member Posts: 469 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/979336#Comment_979336

    Yes I recall that however I've seen on many programs that a lot do feel uncomfortable about is as said in the link, something to do with politically and morally, being seen to be on the side of the people etc. Has anyone seen this.

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,713 Championing
    edited February 2025

    Just to clarify, the reason an international court found that the Chagos should be a part of Mauritius is due to the way decolonisation was supposed to happen. The Chagos islands were administrated from Mauritius when both were a part of the British Empire. Just before independence of Mauritius the Chagos islands were separated from Mauritius, which goes against the UN statute of decolonisation.

    I am not trying to suggest what is right or wrong, just why there is a justification for the Chagos being a part of Mauritius.

    Regardless, this does not have much to do with benefits.

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