I am never voting again, they are all the same, in the job to line their pockets, thats it, never follow through with their promises, then just do whatever it takes to get more money for themselves, self serving arseholes
They did one but it was a rush job and, as a tribute to what she did to the economy ... ... it had a massive meltdown please log in to view this image
Yer right... You might find one or two principled MP but not many more than that. Some of this latest batch are straight out of education trying to tell the grown ups what they should be thinking most not even having had any experience of the working environment. I thought it was bad with the number of legal professionals stealing a living but this last batch, who knows where it will end.....
It's hard to say which one is the worst. The Tories had 14 years to the I things up but Labour seen to have done it in a fraction of that time. The electorate I guess will decide as it should do.
Whipps warned no.10 9 months ago re issues over cuts to pip / welfare. They are now saying they are not being listened to. Diane Abbott on BBC 2 newsnight saying welfare needs reform, but govt will take pip money away first then add some back is wrong
Starmer needs to get McSweeney pushed out plus any of the vestiges of the influence of that loser Glasman. This is just amateurish politics. All predictable but their inability to ameliorate things kills them. Even now they can’t just say ‘it’s either cuts or tax rises’.
Jim Callaghan "Crisis? What crisis?" Being levelled at Starmer ... £1000 of pip being pulled, estimated at £5b... while our 12 new nuclear bomber F-35A jets for defence is part of our core defence budget which is going to cost us £60b by 2035... is there an issue?
Treasury are often myopic but that’s not a starmer labour thing. Again for the want of grown-up conversations with the public, the quickest way to plug these gaps is to get back into the CU/SM. However he’s still pinned politically there. He’d simply not be allowed to be the man who ‘reverses brexit’ despite it being the nearest to a magic bullet that a politician could ever wish to have.
Pleased he has changed his mind on PIPs. I have a family so reliable on theirs, would have been a really horrible policy choice imo.
I know it's going to be tough reforming the benefits system including the Winter Fuel, but surely Starmer should have realised blanket changes were always going to fail someone. It doesn't look good for further changes/reform?
The thing is he hasn’t changed his mind, everyone will remember what he wanted to do at the next election, rich pompous twat.
Disagree, just received the email from the gaffer... Dear Blondie lad, A year ago next week, our Labour government was elected after 14 years of chaos and decline under the Tories. It is because of people like you that we won a majority and a mandate to change our country. Like you, I joined the Labour Party because I believe in care, compassion and social justice. In Opposition, we watched the Tories chip away at the social contract underpinning the welfare state in Britain. A welfare state that our party created. We said then that we would fix it. And that is exactly what we’re doing. At its best, our welfare state does what we cherish: it protects the people who need it. At its worst, because of the changes made by the Tories, it traps people into the system and denies them the dignity and security that they deserve. The government I lead is not going to stand idle as more and more severely ill and disabled people face the insecurity of being continually reassessed for social security when it is clear that they cannot work again. We will end the cruel re-assessments for those who can’t work. I will not accept a country where 1 in 8 young people are not in education, employment or training, with no support to help them get a foot on the ladder. When 2.8 million people of working age are written off by a Tory system that was designed to fail, I will not accept this. Let me be clear: if we do nothing to reform social security, we will fail the people who need it most. And we will give a pass to our political opponents who want to see an end to it. If the Tories were the architects who designed a system that failed people in this country, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is the party who wants to see it off for good. It is our job to fix the system that they have broken, to protect it for the long term. Our party created the welfare state and it is our job to secure it for the future. Our investment in mental health services, childcare and social housing is giving people the chance to live the life they want to live. I know that in recent days there have been some concerns about the changes that we have proposed. I have listened to colleagues who have rightly shared ways for us to improve our changes. And we are taking those improvements forward. But I want you to know this: the values that motivate our changes to social security, are the same values that mean our Plan for Change is delivering free breakfast clubs in primary schools, free school meals for those who need them, and a £1,400 boost to pay for 3.5 million low paid workers. We are delivering for the people we came into politics to serve. I want to thank you for your support. We were elected on a mandate to change Britain. We are getting on with the job. And we are putting our values of care, compassion and social justice to work. Keir Starmer Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party.
Sorry but its the sooner the better for me, only time will tell of course , but could he have made a worse start, I very much doubt it. The big worry is the choice left after he goes, only Nandy and Kinnock look anywhere near to me, hope I am wrong of course as I am labour through and through , despite the fog at Westminster .
