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Many said the #Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence
Nesrine Malik
He’ll be radical, the PM’s allies claimed. Well, look now, as poor people are targeted and ministers boast of wearing Tory clothes better than the Tories
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Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence
He’ll be radical, the PM’s allies vlaimed told us. Well, look now, as the poor are targeted and ministers boast of wearing Tory clothes better than the Tories, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
Charities and MPs warn Starmer over benefits changes
> The government will outline plans to reduce spending on health benefits on Tuesday, but is facing accusations vulnerable people could lose out.
> Ministers are looking at tightening criteria to qualify for Personal Independence Payments (PIP), one of the key disability benefits, but have abandoned plans for a one-year freeze to PIP payments, after disquiet from MPs. bbc.com/news/articles/cddyqg88… #UK #austerity #Labour
PM faces discontent over benefits system shake-up
Sir Keir Starmer has faced concerns from Labour backbenchers who have expressed anger at proposals.Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)
With less funding and more hunger, a Denton community garden still wants to grow and feed more
Friends of Shiloh Field Community Garden always plans to harvest more crops for its local partner food pantries and homeless shelters. This year, the community garden’s board chair said theDenton Record-Chronicle
“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”
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#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
“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”
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#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 McDonnellJohn 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
TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut OffThe statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.
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"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
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#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 McDonnellJohn 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!
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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 statementHeather 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.
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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 departmentsJim 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.
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#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?
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#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 statementPhillip 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
‘’We’re doing things Tories only talked about’, says red Tory health secretary – before going on to list cuts and warmongering”
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#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
“Starmer government’s plan to slash thousands and intensify punitive regime drives victims to despair among people already under awful pressure”
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#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
Coalition talks begin in Germany: Rearming like the Nazis, anti-refugee agitation and social cuts
From left: Markus Soeder, chairman of Bavarians Christian Social Union party, Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz and the Social Democratic Party leaders Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken, attend a news conference in Berlin, German…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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
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#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
Argentina Inflation Rate
Inflation Rate in Argentina decreased to 117.80 percent in December from 166 percent in November of 2024.TRADING ECONOMICS
"We're celebrating 40 years of (Government not funding social programs) Comic Relief!"
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....
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#Labour #Austerity #LabourTogether #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #ProjectChainsaw
Plan to cut thousands of civil service jobs in radical government shake-up
Exclusive: Proposals also include cutting thousands of civil service jobs and restructuring NHS EnglandPippa Crerar (The Guardian)
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
Ben Jennings on Labour plans to cut disability benefits rather than impose a wealth tax – cartoon
Rachel Reeves’s spring statement is expected to include cuts to the welfare systemBen Jennings (The Guardian)
#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."
#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
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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
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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 austerityAndrew Sparrow (The Guardian)
“‘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”
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#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. 🤬
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"Ziekenhuis Meppel test neurologisch onderzoek op afstand"
#Zorg #austerity #AusterityIsMurder
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
France’s “War Economy” Is a Prelude to Cutting the Welfare State
In recent months, Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need to slash public debt, yet now he calls for huge military spending.jacobin.com
Economists Invented Austerity And Paved the Way to Fascism.
WE MUST FIGHT BACK!
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understand the scam of economic oppression…
#Austerity #Fascism #Scam #ArtificialScarcity #WealthTransfer #ClassWar #PunchDown #Misery #Profit