Brace for another administration of austerity and victim blaming rather than taxing the wealthy.

Surely, it's the people who are ill, poor and foreign who are to blame for the state of the country, and not the rich sucking up all the money.

As far as I can tell, this is just trying soften the blow and curtail the pushback these policies will inevitably face.

The time to cut funding, if ever, is when things are going great. That is the opposite of how things are now.

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[–] [S] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Trying to make it easier to get jobs is good and all, we definitely need more and better entry-level jobs, but there are some people who cannot work because they are carers, parents or disabled.

This administration has continued to talk about cutting support for disabilities, after doing exactly that under Starmer. What that does is make disabled people homeless as they have to choose between housing and medicine or food. They are unable to make it out fo the house anymore, so they can't work. It's way more expensive than just giving people support.

People with mental health issues, the ones most targetted, have their help taken away or denied, preventing them from being able to recover and hold a job.

If the administration really wanted people to get back to work, they would vastly increase the funding and availability of mental health services and the NHS. They would make easier to get benefits and housing so you don't get stuck in a beurocratic spiral instead of getting better.

A healthy public is a productive one.

I just don't trust the current Labour. I called Labour under Starmer "Forced Labour" and a change in Leader does not feel like it is enough. Shabana Mahmood and Wes Streeting still hold positions of power, is this really a new government? So far, it's better than Starmer, but disabled people, trans people and poor people always fall through the cracks or are actively abused. I'll believe this administration is different when I see it.

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