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HarriettMB<p>I bet he isn’t sorry really. The rationale behind this budget and other financial decisions made by the Chancellor, and previous chancellors is clearly that they believe we all have some kind of magic money tree, and hidden incomes that we live on; only accessing our ‘pocket money’ for kicks. <br>I think it’s time there was a televised test for aspiring politicians [renewable every ten years] that they must live in the circumstances and the incomes they expect the rest of us to - with no external support from family or associates. Live in a suitable rundown property with an unpleasant landlord, high rent, poor access to public transport, penalties for turning up late, etc. And they must do so for a minimum of six months. <br>His ‘pocket money’ comment shows how completely divorced from reality these politicians are. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkngrv14myo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkngr</span><span class="invisible">v14myo</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>The Spring Statement: the view from Blackpool....</p><p>For the already vulnerable &amp; impoverished, austerity never went way &amp; so cannot return... its just how society structures their lives.</p><p>Callous &amp; brutal politics now seems to be the norm, with the only people whose sensitivities are considered are the wealthy &amp; influential.... no wonder the hashtag <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> (Labour in Name Only) is gaining traction </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/26/people-have-been-pushed-to-the-brink-welfare-cuts-spark-fear-in-blackpool" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/26/people-have-been-pushed-to-the-brink-welfare-cuts-spark-fear-in-blackpool</span></a></p>
HarriettMB<p>Reeves confirms that she’s impoverishing even more of the already impoverished residents in the UK. Utterly incapable of understanding how this creates more recession, more deaths, more homeless. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qjn879lr4o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qjn8</span><span class="invisible">79lr4o</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>The Institute for Government;'s summation of Labour's position:</p><p>'there is a real risk that [the Labour Govt.] falls into the same trap as previous Conservative administrations: cutting spending in the short-term before hurriedly &amp; haphazardly injecting cash into services when performance becomes politically unacceptable'!</p><p>The phrasing 'previous Conservative administrations' suggest someone on the IfG's team is thinking of 'Labour in Name Only'!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rachel-reeves-spring-statement?utm_source=ZohoCampaigns&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25-tuesday-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instituteforgovernment.org.uk/</span><span class="invisible">comment/rachel-reeves-spring-statement?utm_source=ZohoCampaigns&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25-tuesday-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p>Worth repeating. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> He 's pure <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelReeves</span></a> still playing 1 to 10 on her fingers &amp; toes. You should note I also despise those fecking <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tory</span></a> bar stewards. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AntiFa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiFa</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialist</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> 💖🇪🇺✊🏾</p>
JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦<p>Smashing </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/YouYesYet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouYesYet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EndUnionismInScotlandHolyrood2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndUnionismInScotlandHolyrood2026</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LiebourLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiebourLied</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StarmerLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerLies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SarwarLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarwarLies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RedTories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedTories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NoChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoChange</span></a> </p><p>All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/22/all-uk-families-to-be-worse-off-by-2030-as-poor-bear-the-brunt-new-data-warns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/22/all-uk-families-to-be-worse-off-by-2030-as-poor-bear-the-brunt-new-data-warns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</span></a></p>
Gillinger<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> <br>"But you don't understand. If we tax the millionaires they'll leave the country."</p><p>Rubbish</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RachelFromAccounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelFromAccounts</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>'On top of that, it owes them better services, so that those who want to work can do so; it owes them better services anyway, if it wants to count itself modern and humane; and it owes them the basic decency of recognition.'</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>'Carers UK estimated last year that if every unpaid carer in the country decided to cease caring tomorrow and joined the “productive” economy instead, that would cost the state £184bn a year. In other words, the cost of disability is already being shouldered mainly by disabled people and their loved ones. The state owes these families an enormous debt of gratitude as a baseline.'</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>'According to the 2021 census, there are 5.8 million unpaid carers in the UK, 1.2 million of those living in poverty, 400,000 in deep poverty. A report by the Social Metrics Commission found that, of the 14.9 million people living in poverty in the UK in 2021-22, 8.6 million were in families that included a disabled person.'</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>As of last October, there were 3.6 million personal independence payment (Pip) claimants. Eligibility is stringent. The idea – last floated by Tony Blair, whose transformation into know-nothing golf-club pontificator is still startling after all this time – that we are “medicalising the ups and downs of life”, handing out diagnoses and sickness benefits to people who just feel a bit sad, is fanciful. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/labour-is-gaslighting-disabled-people-and-that-should-terrify-us-all?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/17/labour-is-gaslighting-disabled-people-and-that-should-terrify-us-all?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>What's missing from the welfare debate?</p><p>The fact that the pandemic was so badly mishandled meaning that </p><p>"In March 2023, an estimated 1.9 million people in the UK reported that they were experiencing long covid, representing 2.9% of the population. Of these, 1.3 million had symptoms that had lasted for more than a year and 762,000 had symptoms lasting for more than two years."</p><p>I don't hear anyone blaming Johnson for his part.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a></p><p><a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9112/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commonslibrary.parliament.uk/r</span><span class="invisible">esearch-briefings/cbp-9112/</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p>Re post this if you would. Vile, cruel and designed to affect those least able to defend themselves. As I keep sayng he is a real bar steward and is as <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> as the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> is a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Rabbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rabbi</span></a>. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> <br><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/15/starmer-kendall-disability-benefit-change-is-targeted-war-on-people-with-mental-health-issues/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/03/15/starm</span><span class="invisible">er-kendall-disability-benefit-change-is-targeted-war-on-people-with-mental-health-issues/</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p>Bet <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> hasn't factored this into his 'special relationship' with the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> . If you sup with the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/devil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devil</span></a> sup with a long spoon. ☮️ ✊🏾 <br><a href="https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/13/us-top-weapons-exports-china-russia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/13/us-top-weapons-exports-china-russia/</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p>Bloody <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LINO</span></a> is it catching or is this what it takes to gain favour in that lying bar steward <a href="https://mas.to/tags/starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>starmer</span></a> cabinet. Vile, vile people. <br><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/13/video-streeting-admits-labour-worse-than-tories/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/03/13/video</span><span class="invisible">-streeting-admits-labour-worse-than-tories/</span></a></p>
Beverley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Geri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Geri</span></a></span> </p><p>I want to see a realistic risk assessment.</p><p>The neoliberal IDIOTS don't give a stuff about the impact on the mental health of the vulnerable people who will suffer... The fear alone has an impact before any cuts become a reality.</p><p>Then there are those of us who are carers, also impacted by having to soothe and try to mitigate the harms.</p><p>I am F*CKING FURIOUS!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LabourLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourLies</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>So do I take it that the Labour party doesn't think disabled people are worthy of a decent life? Should my disabled family member just die rather than be a cost to the state?</p><p>Do they believe that the vulnerable have chosen to be in this position? Do those planning cuts imagine they are invulnerable to disability?</p><p>For a Labour gov' to be increasing poverty amongst the vulnerable... and claiming the moral high ground... Shame on you all!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/12/there-is-no-moral-case-labour-divided-over-prospect-of-benefit-cuts?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/12/there-is-no-moral-case-labour-divided-over-prospect-of-benefit-cuts?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a></p>
Beverley<p>Amongst the key findings:</p><p>"The UK has some of the least generous welfare across the OECD: the UK ranks in the middle of OECD countries for welfare spending... and third lowest for welfare value (per cent of average wages)."</p><p>Do Labour seriously think they were elected to cut the welfare bill (starting with the winter fuel payment)?</p><p>Perhaps they think as soon as a person becomes disabled they should be euthanised? It's looking that way.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiNO</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerIsATory</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://niesr.ac.uk/publications/uk-living-standards-review-2025?type=report" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">niesr.ac.uk/publications/uk-li</span><span class="invisible">ving-standards-review-2025?type=report</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This <a href="https://spore.social/tags/lino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lino</span></a> block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist &amp; entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠<br>⁠<br>Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/dye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dye</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FashionHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FashionHistory</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/purple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purple</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mauve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mauve</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/colour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colour</span></a></p>
BregjeNote to self: maybe next time let's not do a symmetrical design😅 The lino cutting itself is so relaxing though😊 <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Lino?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lino</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/LinoCut?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LinoCut</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PrintMaking?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrintMaking</a>
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