Yeah totally agree

Even if that’s true it doesn’t stop them needing the money

The problem here is landlords not benefit claimant’s

Get rid of landlords, they can simply sign on

The red tape being removed just means lower quality housing. Don’t fall for sloganeering.

Isnt the main issues that voters have the cost of living, failing nhs, landlords?

Planning regulations aren’t going to see any wins, nor is improving energy girds, important as those things are.

Its been shown that increases in housing stock has minimal effects on rent prices. A very cheap solution to this is rent control, it literally costs nothing. They could also build social housing if they wanted to invest money in something useful.

The NHS needs money, there is no getting around this unfortunately. All the fat trimming has been done.

Cost of living is obviously more complicated and i won’t pretend to understand that level of macro. But you seem to be concerned that increases in deficit ie borrowing would cause debts to increase. This always happens when any government does anything remotely left wing, look at how the USA treats cuba. The political fact is that to be left wing you have to accept USA aligned countries making it more expensive for you to borrow. If Corbyn had won we would have been battered by this, but the trick is to nationalise the economy and become independent.

I can sympathise with some of what you’re saying,but you make it out as if néolibéral policy is capable of doing those things as well as positioning it as the only route possible, which is disingenuous. You’re making a political statement, not a descriptive diagnosis.

All i can see this cut doing is forcing carers to work extra jobs if they can, or forcing more people onto the street. It won’t get any of these people into work.

No they just do it more politely a la lib dems

The problem is not the factual accuracy of what he’s saying but why he would say it.

To anyone who follows politics even remotely, Wes clearly here is doing a dog whistle. He’s signalling to the boomers that labour also thinks people with mental health issues are just lazy. Hes doing reactionary politics on purpose.

This was done on purpose, it’s not a mistake. Wes is literally this cruel.

He’s gonna be the next leader so get used to him!

On average, being disabled costs 1100 more a month.

Even when they are in work, those costs are still there. This is why PIP exists. 675 a month is already a pittance. And thats being taken away from many.

https://dpac.uk.net/2025/03/hands-off-disability-benefit-cut-slides/

Read what disabled people actually say before listening to some bullshit bbc article white washing it

Break a promise, labour could never.

This cut will kill 1000s and your discussing it like it’s a change to bin collection days

You can’t govern a country based on the potential headlines. Murdoch has power but they have 4 more years with an incredible majority. They could literally expropriate the entire wealth of the nation and reset us to a 1970s level of inequality (ie the lowest ever). But they wont because they are ideologues, they believe the poor should have shit lives. They believe in the hierarchy.

I don’t think you really appreciate how bad this PIP thing is. 1000s are going to die.

Austerity killed 200k or more.

This is going to kill a lot more.

But great thanks for the crumbs mr kid starver

What kind of bellend do you have to be to panic when seeing a Palestine flag?

'people don’t like it when the government decides to cull the vulnerable ’ this isn’t some reduction of pocket money to lazy teenagers, this is literally the cutting of people’s basic needs. How would you feel if i took away your ability to feed and house yourself?

What makes you think the guardian are any better than the mail?

Yes progress often begins with sacking 30k employees

The NHS sorely needs admin jobs doing. I know because i fucking do it everyday.

Good admin saves the time of nurses and doctors to do clinical work. Its just as crucial as clinical work

Those suggesting this is sensible have just drunk the cool aid

Cuts aside, the biggest concern will be the lack of regulation. Or increased politicisation of the NHS.

I expect Streeting wants to increase his ability to force NHS to pay for services from private companies. The talk of cutting red tape likely means a move towards American style healthcare where ‘the customer is Always right’

In effect this means that patients will be able to demand more procedures which private companies will provide. However, they will only do profitable ones. This will ultimately leave less money for more complex health issues in the budget. Remember private healthcare always costs the NHS way more than if they had the capacity themselves. Purposely using private healthcare is a way of diminishing the service NHS is able to provide, paving the way for full private systems. Its also another fuck you to complex cases, ie disabled people.

This BBC article is just manufactured consent for cuts.

These concentration camps are just temporary until we can grow the economy enough, promise!

Remember how we were told that Labour would actually be different to the tories?

I said continuously that they are just as bad and everyone got mad.

Hopefully the wool has been pulled from their eyes now and next election people will feel confident to vote for alternatives like the greens or any other party that may or may not be being formed.

Lol mate you really are a dimwit

Your idea of what the left wing is reads like a fucking spectator opinion piece.

What are you describing is the bogeyman liberal of right wing pundits, not socialists.

No one has ever said is marxism the answer. Marxism is a philosophical and historical theory of change. left wing people are often Marxists because it accurately describes how capitalism works. It just shows how little you understand. Numnuts