When covid came along, the consensus among politicians seemed to be that we had to prioritise the economy, and never mind if it made millions of people sick.
How's that working out for the economy?
"If you have previously announced that you will only make major fiscal decisions once a year, there is no reason at all to think the bond market will react to the OBR forecast in a more significant way than any other piece of public finance news. Nor does cruelty earn you market credibility.
"The less charitable answer as to why she didn’t take the adult response of deferring decisions until October is that the Chancellor found it politically convenient to suggest she had been forced to cut disability benefits in order to retain fiscal credibility"
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"Does it want to actually cut our national income because take £5 billion out of the money available to people who are on low incomes, and that amount of spending will automatically disappear from the economy, in other words, harming Labour's growth agenda as a consequence, which makes no sense at all."
I don't think appeals to this government asking them to show empathy and fairness are going to wash, the chosen rhetoric involving people with disabilities shows they see callousness, cruelty and abuse as desirable features. They might be swayed by the economic argument for not cutting disability benefits but it needs to be shouted at them repeatedly.
By and large people on benefits have to return their income to the national economy almost immediately. They can't remove it from the economy to make it more tax-efficient. These "economically inactive" people have no option but to actively stimulate economic activity.
About bloody time Labour went after disability benefits, bloody scroungers #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #farage #nigelfarage #reformuk #Gammons #KemiBadenoch #disabilitybenefits
Who had Labour making worse decisions for vulnerable and poor people than the Tories on their bingo card?
Dave Brown @Independent on #Starmer #BenefitCuts #DisabilityBenefits #SpendingCuts #Austerity – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
