The Cost of Cuts
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i think you will find half the problem is that they are staying at school and College into there 20s and then they dont want to work worst thing this country ever did was raise the school leaving age to lower the unemployment figures put them in the army for a couple of years
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GB news again about cutting welfare. If she decides to do it, will we have no money at all ?
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haha back in my day our parents had a job to get us to come in the house nowadays the kids dont want to leave there room my dawnie works in a shop and the kids play with stuff and the parents laugh untill she tells them off the parents say thanks we cant do that at home anything for an easy life
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ah the good old days
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You see that if Labour pushes anything too harsh in the Green Paper the reception will be overwhelmingly negative, maybe they're trying to seem tough knowing that proposals would be watered down in the event of a backlash.
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In the daily mail
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What I'm concerned is that the cuts will leave us with no money to live on
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I'm very sad to say there looks like very little difference between this Labour front bench + the Tories. They just use the excuse that "governing is hard" but they could easily get the extra money needed for defense from wealth taxes. They don't need to kick the disabled down. It feels very much as though it's been driven by ideology. And it's been particularly cruel they've kept us hanging on for months now, keeping us in the dark about what they're planning to do. They appear to have a callous disregard for the distress they've inflicted.
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how long would the cuts take because surely can’t cut people money this year
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I know it's tempting but best not to watch it Andi. I've turned off many times recently, it's been so blatantly reactionary
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They like the papers say they spoken to kendell or heard reeves say. Th
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Think you're wrong there Michael, there's nothing inherently bad about stopping on until your 18. When we were kids + the school leaving age was 16, it was no better, Thatcher was in command + there weren't any jobs. My old Dad left at 15, the only way he and many of his generation "got on" was because the war was starting + jobs were created for the war effort.
I don't think kids nowadays are any more lazy because they stay on until 18. If they give them work training as part of the school curriculum, like the young lad helping out with the builders next door to me, so much the better. I think as others have said, the real problem has been all the smartphone stuff + kids being alienated from society, compounded by all the isolation during covid.
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i respect your opinions but i stand by mine i think labour has done the same as all parties have done since the war if people think it will get better so be it i prefer to sit in the garden with a nice cuppa and not fret over it
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you could try getting compensation for delayed trauma seems the norm nowadays
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Oh my gosh did you see itv news about welfare cuts. Making harder to get pip, freezing next year. Universal credit cut if your not able to work and more for those looking for work. So basically they be forcing us to get a job, or live in poverty
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Does anyone think the Labour plans are going to be watered down in the long term?
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Is this real? How soon can they do this :
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-03-07/government-to-make-6bn-welfare-savings-with-benefits-shake-up
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https://www.itv.com/news/2025-03-07/government-to-make-6bn-welfare-savings-with-benefits-shake-up
So people are going to be punished for being ill or disabled. Lovely government we have here.
The radical package of reforms will see:
- £5bn in savings by making it harder to qualify for Personal Independence Payments - a benefit not linked to work that is meant to help people with the additional costs of their disability.
- Further savings by freezing PIP payments next year, so they do not rise with inflation
- Raising the basic rate for Universal Credit paid to those searching for work, or in work, while cutting the rate for those who are judged as unfit for work.
- A billion pounds of savings ploughed into a major investment for employment support for those who are looking for a job
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Now we all know what's coming down the line for us.😲
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Yes I saw it.
Very worrying indeed.
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