The devil is in the hand of the officious DWP worker who presses a button to stop genuinely ill people from receiving welfare support on the basis of "You look ok to me!" Welfare support in the UK is already among the lowest in the Western World in a country that keeps telling itself it's the 6th richest.

Watch the actual interview. It's about 2 minutes on benefits starting at 2:30 https://youtu.be/rEiJPHHg4dA

Supporting people into a better position rather than just giving them money forever is a good thing. As always the devil's in the details but I'm willing to hold judgement on this one.

This entire article is rage bait.

Take money from rich people, you dumb fucks. They've got more of it.

"Labour", my fucking beard.

Our attention's (largely) on the wrong thing. We need to acknowledge the mental health crisis and start acting on it right now. We're currently arguing over whether to buy plasters while continuing to stab ourselves. No of course we shouldn't be paying all this money to manage poor mental health, because people shouldn't be this sick in the first place.

I give it to Burnham that he's focusing on communities. I think that will improve mental health, though there is much more work to do.

Twat. Starmer 2.0.

Journalists should start calling them out whenever they use the term welfare because that's not what we have. We have workfare which is a very different concept.

Labour is going to get a lot of disabled people killed it seems, it has chosen them as the scape goat and is blaming them for the nations finances. Its disgraceful open bigotry.