Off Topic Politics Thread

Am I misunderstanding these welfare changes or does it really mean that you could have two people with the same condition but only one eligible based purely on timing?

 

Yep

 

Sadly yes. If the Tories had done this they'd be ripped to shreds. This government are showing they're almost as bad.

 

The Tories (were ripped to shreds in the last General Election), with a large majority would be steamrollering their Bills through, their members are all loyal to their leaders and support them, even if they don't agree with the details.
The Labour Party, with a large majority, (were given the task to manage the economic mess the Tories had created), are not a team, just a disparate group of individuals, who only back their own interests and are in no way loyal or supportive to their leaders or each other, hence the current shambles. Unless they get their act together this mess will just continue.

 

Pretty ridiculous that really. Not a good look for a government with a huge majority to not be able to pass their legislation a year in.

 

And that's his good points.

 

Or you could say that the MPs are standing up for their own moral point of view, and this is what we want from our elected representatives.
The problem here is how do you cut the welfare bill without making more people fall into poverty.
The government fixating on the budgets rather than the narrative. They are so scared of being labelled with financial incompetence that they are making changes that can hurt their core support.
I think we can all agree that since the pandemic there are lots of people who have fallen into the welfare trap - how do you get them out again and over what time frame is the problem the government is trying to square.

 

This is 100 % correct

Elected politicians doing what they are elected for. This is how democracy should work.