Nicola Jennings sums up a lot of people's feelings right now

#politics #benefits #austerity

“Starmer-Kendall disability benefit change is targeted war on people with mental health issues”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“New points structure is designed to deny support to those with mental illness or neurodivergence”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/15/starm…

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Kendall #DWP #War #Disabled #Neurodivergent #MentalIllness #IntentionalCruelty #Cuts #Austerity #WFA #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver

Starmer-Kendall disability benefit change is targeted war on people with mental health issues

New points structure is designed to deny support to those with mental illness or neurodivergence Targeted: many people with mental illness will become prisoners in their homes under the new Starmer…

^SKWAWKBOX

"They waited until late at night, but look at this little nugget and see what they snuck in in an effort to cut government: Scholars, museums, the Interagency Council on Homelessness and . . .

"The Minority Business Development Agency"
-B Karem

#Racism #Austerity #TrumpMusk #Resist #USPol

“Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared & short-sighted?”

by John McDonnell MP in the Grauniad

“Treating disabled & sick people callously flies in the face of all the party stands for – the government must rethink its plans”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#Press #Labour #Austerity #WFA #Reeves #Starmer #RachelThieves #FreezeAndStarve #TwoChildBenefitCap #ChildPoverty #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver #LabourFriendsOfGenocide

Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted?

Treating disabled and sick people callously flies in the face of all the party stands for – the government must rethink its plans, writes the MP John McDonnell

^{John McDonnell (The Guardian)}

In the US even the bomb-sniffing dogs are suffering austerity.

TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off
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#US #USPol #AusterityEconomics #austerity #TSA #dogs

404 Media

2025-03-15 14:30:00

TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off

The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.

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TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

"There is still time for the Labour cabinet to act like a cabinet, and for its members to stand up to the Treasury to halt the cuts in benefits to the sick and disabled, and to insist on a more flexible interpretation of the fiscal rules and a limited set of tax measures."

John McDonnell

Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#UKPol #Labour #welfare #austerity

Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted?

Treating disabled and sick people callously flies in the face of all the party stands for – the government must rethink its plans, writes the MP John McDonnell

^{John McDonnell (The Guardian)}

As pressure builds on Rachel Reeves to relax or shift her self-imposed fiscal rules, the Q. is whether she is one of those people who respond to pressure by doubling down on the criticised decision.

As so often (as Modern Monetary Theory adopts are no doubt screaming), the idea that the state could create credit (as with Quantitive Easing in 2008 onwards) is being ignored... if ever there was a time for the idea of a People's QE, now is that time!

#economics #austerity

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Economists urge Rachel Reeves to bend fiscal rules instead of cutting welfare

Calls for chancellor to exclude defence from rules or raise taxes in response to spending pressure at spring statement

^{Heather Stewart (The Guardian)}

"Rayner raised #Labour MPs’ worries about the depth of the cuts to the #benefits system — which include radical reforms that the former Conservative government blanched at during the “#austerity” period a decade ago.

#UKPol

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Rayner and Cooper criticised cuts in ‘tense’ UK cabinet meeting

‘Large minority’ of ministers protested about planned spending reductions in their own departments

^{Jim Pickard (Financial Times)}

An Argentinian pensioner stands up to Javier Milei’s riot police even as they shoot at her. The scenes were part of the mass mobilizations earlier this week.

Football fan groups joined retirees for their weekly protest against Milei’s austerity measures and pension cuts, which have plunged the elderly into abject poverty.

buenosairesherald.com/society/…

#Argentina #Austerity #JavierMilei #Seniors #Pensioners

I guess promising us MORE Austerity after 15 years of Tory Austerity combined with our super best friend, Gilead calling a Trade War isn't helping.

Tell you what chancellor, why don't you punish the Poor for the Economy not going the way you naively assumed it would, teach us a lesson, yeah?

theguardian.com/business/2025/…

#RachelReeves #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Austerity #TradeWar

UK economy shrinks unexpectedly in blow to Rachel Reeves

ONS data showing 0.1% fall in GDP in January comes less than two weeks before chancellor’s spring statement

^{Phillip Inman (The Guardian)}

#Argentina: #GeneralStrike called against repression of protests, economic policies like wage suppression, and increased #IMF debt

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#strike #strikes #union #unions #CGT #JavierMilei #UTEP #HumanRights #democracy #libertarian #PopeFrancis #hunger #SocialJustice #AdolfoPerezEsquivel #capitalism #austerity #neoliberalism #corruption #exploitation #ClassWar

Argentina's CGT announces 24-hour general strike

Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) will be staging a 24-hour general strike against the government of Javier Milei, tentatively set for before April 10.

^MercoPress

“Video: Streeting admits Labour worse than Tories”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox

@UKLabour

‘’We’re doing things Tories only talked about’, says red Tory health secretary – before going on to list cuts and warmongering”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/13/video…

#Press #Labour #Austerity #WFA #Reeves #Starmer #Streeting #FreezeAndStarve #TwoChildBenefitCap #ChildPoverty #Genocide #Complicity #Authoritarian #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver #LabourCorruption #LabourFriendsOfGenocide

Video: Streeting admits Labour worse than Tories

‘We’re doing things Tories only talked about’, says red Tory health secretary – before going on to list cuts and warmongering Right-wing Labour Health Secretary Wes Streetin…

^SKWAWKBOX

“Calls to #suicide helplines rocket because of Labour’s #war on #disabled and #sick people”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox

@UKLabour

“Starmer government’s plan to slash thousands and intensify punitive regime drives victims to despair among people already under awful pressure”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/12/calls…

#Press #Labour #Austerity #WFA #Reeves #Starmer #Kendal #FreezeAndStarve #TwoChildBenefitCap #ChildPoverty #Genocide #Complicity #Authoritarian #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver

Calls to suicide helplines rocket because of Labour’s war on disabled and sick people

Starmer government’s plan to slash thousands and intensify punitive regime drives victims to despair among people already under awful pressure Calls to suicide helplines have seen a ‘hu…

^SKWAWKBOX

Look at our future Brits, Starmer just doesn't have it, and will end up like this prick.

Frankly, Austerity IS Repression

#Peru #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Austerity #Starmer

Apparently a Govt. 'source' has today suggested that Labour MPs making representations (complaining) about the prospective benefits freezes & cuts are (actually) just 'pearl clutching'

If true then this is both ageset & sexist if being used as an insult (its unclear how else it might be intended), and suggests Labour 'managers' have developed a tin ear for any political development outside the confines of the Westminster Village.

#austerity #politics #benefits

h/t Simon Fletcher/Modern Left

#Argentina: "we will all be retirees" - retirees organize march against government over #pensions, joined by football fans and #unions. Government responds with tear gas and water jets

footboom1.com/en/news/football…

#union #PatriciaBullrich #BuenosAires #CGT #CTA #UTEP #PlazaDeMayo #capitalism #neoliberalism #austerity #exploitation #ClassWar

got a message to #Argentina #neoliberal #Milei: to improve the #economy maybe try it with new #innovation new #ideas not the same old #neoliberal #bullshit

he wanted to make #Argentina "great again" with #neoliberal #austerity #MargeretThatcher methods

while #inflation has indeed gone done in #Argentina

tradingeconomics.com/argentina… 292% to "only" 94%

please search for #Argentina #debt #singer and u will get an idea how #Argentina is financially screwed so badly duckduckgo.com/?q=argentina+de…

this MUST lead to catastrophe

#pension and #football #fan #clash #protest #riot #police #teargas #rubberbullets

"We're celebrating 40 years of (Government not funding social programs) Comic Relief!"

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Austerity #Charity #ComicReliefDay

A truly stunning lack of originality, and the hilarity of still pretending to be on the Left, while idolising a Far Right populist who is currently destroying his own country.

And besides, the Tories already tried it 10 years ago.

#LabourTogether #Labour #ProjectChainsaw #Austerity #UKPOL #UKpolitics

Oh, I see....

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

#Labour #Austerity #LabourTogether #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #ProjectChainsaw

Well I'm not 'Working People' so fuck me I guess?
And you say it's not 'Ideological', when you erase people like me from Public Life.

Your giddiness at unleashing pain on us is palpable lads, you're creeping us out.

#NHS #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Starmer #Austerity

#USA:ssa Ihmisten naamoja syövien leopardien puoluetta äänestäneet ovat järkyttyneitä, kun leopardit syövät heidän naamansa.

"Emme ymmärtäneet, millaista tuhoa tämä hallinto saisi aikaan omassa elämässämme."

"En usko, että voisin äänestää Trumpia uudestaan. En voi ajatella, että äänestäisin sen puolesta, että Elon Musk voi tuhota ihmisten elämän."

yle.fi/a/74-20148936

#LeopardsEatingPeoplesFacesParty #Yhdysvallat #USA #USpol #politiikka #Trump #Dump #Musk #leikkaukset #austerity

Jennifer Piggott, 47, äänesti Trumpia, mutta sahasi omaa oksaansa: ”Emme tienneet, mitä tuhoa se toisi elämäs…

Elon Muskin junailemat massairtisanomiset julkisilla aloilla iskevät nyt myös Trumpin omiin kannattajiin republikaanien kannatusalueilla.

^{Olli-Pekka Sulasma (Yle Uutiset)}

Let's check the graph a bit.
At the end of last year, the hawks of @EUCommission tried to push for €1 trillion. Then we had the massage of EU leaders and the "most realistic" of 500 billion. After that, with tons of #propaganda and false claims about dangers around, they came out with an actual plan of €820 billion (when for so many years #EU has a plan of #austerity...) and announced orders... This is how the stock prices of war industries moved and finally (for now) soared.

PS.The European war industry is not ready to deliver this amount of war products, so the states will buy promises of deliverance.
#warmongers #EUpol #ClassWar
p/v @IAmSpartacus

Mexico City's Trolleybus Workers Took On Austerity And Won

#Austerity #ContractEnforcement #GreenTransportation #LaborStrike #UnionPower

popularresistance.org/mexico-c…

Mexico City’s Trolleybus Workers Took On Austerity And Won

The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13.

^{Christopher Johnson (PopularResistance.Org)}

Starmer under pressure over welfare cuts as TUC says targeting disability benefits 'not the solution' - UK politics live

#CeasefireTalks #UkraineWar #TUC #StarmerUnderPressure #Austerity

theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Starmer under pressure over welfare cuts as TUC says targeting disability benefits ‘not the solution’ – UK politics live

Union says proposed cuts will push people in to hardship and repeat the mistakes of Tory austerity

^{Andrew Sparrow (The Guardian)}

Austerity was invented in Italy in the late 1920’s.

Remember who came into power there then? His name starts with M, his intellectual supporters were futurists and his followers wore black shirts.

#austerity literally is a #fascist invention.

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“‘Sod international aid, we’ve war to fund’; or, how UK wasted £1bn+ on Israeli drones it scrapped”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox
@UKLabour

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

“A timeline of MOD waste that brought Israeli death factories to UK; now Labour has slashed aid budget to squander more on war”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/10/sod-i…

#Press #Labour #Austerity #OverseasAid #Starmer #Genocide #Complicity #MOD #Israel #Warmonger #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver

‘Sod international aid, we’ve war to fund’; or, how UK wasted £1bn+ on Israeli drones it scrapped

A timeline of MOD waste that brought Israeli death factories to UK; now Labour has slashed aid budget to squander more on war Keir Starmer’s UK government has rightly been slammed for its dec…

^SKWAWKBOX

Alleen in Nederland. 🤬

Heeft u een beroerte?
Gaat u dan maar even voor de camera staan mijnheer, dan kijkt de helpdesk-neuroloog wel even op afstand wat er is.

"Ziekenhuis Meppel test neurologisch onderzoek op afstand"
#Zorg #austerity #AusterityIsMurder

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I’ve only seen the news from this morning and yesterday really…but it seems to be; some disabled people might not need any PIP so we’re gonna cut everyone’s PIP. Between this and Trump and Co. we’re living in the scariest timeline.

A while back I read that we (The UK) might be too far gone and it might be too late to fix our problems….well rather than attempt that, they seem to be making things worse. Fuck #Austerity

Economists Invented Austerity And Paved the Way to Fascism.
WE MUST FIGHT BACK!

youtube.com/watch?v=Pkn0296wKF…

understand the scam of economic oppression…

#Austerity #Fascism #Scam #ArtificialScarcity #WealthTransfer #ClassWar #PunchDown #Misery #Profit