I guess even more disabled people than usual can starve to death or be driven to suicide if it saves a tiny fraction of the country’s GDP. Meanwhile those in charge waste money like there’s no tomorrow.
Of course he would go after people that can’t even fight back.
If you’re on disability in the UK you’re housebound. You literally can not leave your house because if the council or someone snitches on you that you’re able to fucking move more than 50meters unassisted then you’re considered “fit to work” and would be liable for benefit fraud.
This effectively prevents the disabled from doing any kind of activism. Disabled people attending protests about their benefits have been targete and lost their benefits for doing so.
They are forced to be invisible within UK society and helpless.
so a judge rules it unlawful but they do it anyway. so there is no law then. good news OP looks like you can just go take whatever you need. no need to wait for the government to help out since the law doesnt matter
oh wait the law only matters for us poors
Something something protects but does not bind, something something binds but does not protect
Despite how reactionaries want society to function, it ultimately goes both ways. We all agree to follow the law for the benefit of each other. When the law ceases to function, then it’s mutually assured destruction. “Ballot or the bullet,” as Malcolm X put it. If the British really want to push people to their limits, they will find out why these appeasements were made in the first place.
Of course, they don’t think of others as people who need to eat, sleep, and shit so by some magical Christmas miracle other people will simply go away. That’s not true and it’d be a shame if a disgruntled person were to doohickey someone.
It is quite telling that things like the NHS were created immediately after WW2 because the people of Britain looked behind them at all the war and hardship they had endured, turned to the powers that be, and said “fuck you, pay me.”
The bones of government legitimacy lay in the social contract and a sort of mutual detente between everybody so things can run smoothly. Even capitalism, despite its constant attempts to undermine it, rely on that stability to function. Do the capitalists realize this? Probably. Will they ever learn? Most evidence points to no. Austerity marches on.
Supposedly, quite a few of the poorest britons saw their quality of life improve under the rationing system that was in place during WWII, compared to their lives prior to the war. And after the war, they were not very eager to give up that improvement and so were willing to fight for it (while there was very little chance of Britain turning soviet in the 1940s, it was still a fear that the upper class had, particularly with the red army being stationed in Germany).
That and it was returning soldiers/sailors/airmen who contributed to the large swing against Churchill in the 1945 election. Huge swathes of the population who knew how to fight who needed to be placated.
The Brits don’t, the elite Brits do and it’s shit.
Another result of a country working for its made up economy rather than for its very real people
Oh, look! The human rights lawyer and his soc-dem gang being extra social again.
Separation of powers in the western world working as intended 👌👌👌 blocking progressive policy (think Berlin rent cap) and allowing outright fascism
no rent cap is literally stasi no banana vuvzela iphone big spoon loldomor stalinium 1984 north korea necromancy!11!1
north korea necromancy!
Juche provides for all
After the backlash from removing heating payments for the elderly you’d think they’d know this is gonna horribly backfire on them, right???
The removal of the winter fuel payments affected many other low income people. For example, twice a year for the past few years, local councils have been giving cost of living/hardship payments to people on low incomes. My local council was meant to give us £100 each this winter. I was really relying on that for basics like food. However, because of the government withdrawing the winter fuel payments to the elderly, my local council decided to spend all of this year’s hardship payments on the elderly, to compensate them for the loss of the winter fuel payment, leaving nothing for other low income and disabled people like me. So because of the government’s decision to take away elderly people’s winter fuel payments, I now get nothing.
I knew starmer would be a poor pm but damn it keeps getting worse and worse
The problem with neoliberalism is eventually you run out of services to cut
I can’t believe anyone thought a return to Blairism was going to be a good thing
That’s what happens when the torries abandon their party to become the new labour.
Meanwhile they are selling the nation to AI bros. According to TF they are cutting requirements so these freaks can build server farms across the UK because MUH INNOVATION.
UK really the trendsetter for the future of socdem anti-human western states
Br*tian was a mistake.
Bring back East Anglia, Northumbria, Wessex, etc etc
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