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[Rita_Poon]

What I’m referring to in this instance, is that the reduction in government expenditure towards council services and welfare in the name of austerity back in 2010 has never been reinstated or recovered back to the previous levels.
Things like the bedroom tax and 2 child benefit cap still exist and will remain whilst councils are required to allocate more resources to key areas like child social care and homelessness, which have risen, in part to the fallout from the austerity measures.

here's one.

 

[davek]

They're not scrapping this 2 child tax credit system because they want to use it as a totem to prove how 'serious' they are as a 'proper' government who wont 'give in' to every cause.

Well done Sir Keir.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Keir Starmer vows Britain's nuclear deterrent is safe in his hands

Sir Keir describes his belief in Nato and the UK's nuclear deterrent as 'unshakeable' - and says national security always comes first under his leadership.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Committing to 2.5% of the UK GDP annually = £60 billion.

But they cant find cash for ending the two child benefit cap which would cost £1.3 billion and raise half a million families out of poverty.

Two child benefit cap.
Form NCC1 (Support for a child conceived without your consent)
Women forced to universal credit and this form to get help to raise another child - more women made this application in a specific time that I currently have no detail of than the cps prosecuted men for rape in the same time allocation.

Horrifying.

couple more.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

here's one.

Not gonna lie. Not sure what’s going on here

 

[Charro]

I very much do.

In the interest of balance, I'll give mention and any up in arms about 2 child cap a run... One second...

Sorry, but I don’t see the relevance?

Willing to have a discussion over this but not willing to get into petty forum games.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Not gonna lie. Not sure what’s going on here

Labour never promised to undo the tory cap of two children allowed child support benefit.
Now they're being held to account for it.
I'm asking where the previous noise was regards this issue, because it looks a bit like convenient timing to me.

 

[Milkman]

This is a weird hill you're choosing to die on here @Rita_Poon

 

[Rita_Poon]

This is a weird hill you're choosing to die on here @Rita_Poon

If they had promised it, I'd be calling for another GE. They didn't. They've been in government less than 3 weeks.

Honeymoon lasted a long time eh.

 

[Rita_Poon]

@NilSatisOptimum

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Inevitable purely on restricting human numbers, that's as a species we really want to save the planet...

And child benefit restrictions is already in use in the UK for the 3rd new child, financial assistance is reduced. Rather an odd way to tackle an ageing population if you ask me. Better let other countries have the fun and invite their offspring into the UK... Ooh la la.

And there is active sterilisation programs in some women Prisons, it's not forced but there are ways and means, CBT DBT, probation etc."

February 2020

 

[Rita_Poon]

According May everything is fine in the Tory Garden of Eden. But in the real world,

Poverty
A million more UK children in poverty than in 2010 – study


About 3.1 million children of working parents now below breadline after government’s benefit cuts, according to TUC

Press Association

Mon 7 May 2018 00.01 BST



A food bank in Liverpool. The TUC said: ‘Years of falling incomes and benefit cuts have had a terrible human cost’ Photograph: Richard Stonehouse/Getty Images
The number of children growing up in poverty in working households will be a million higher than in 2010, a new study has found.

Research for the TUC estimates that 3.1 million children with working parents will be below the official breadline this year.

About 600,000 children with working parents have been pushed into poverty because of the government’s benefit cuts and public sector pay restrictions, according to the report by the consultancy Landman Economics. The east Midlands will have the biggest increase in child poverty among working families, followed by the West Midlands and Northern Ireland, the research found.

Frances O’Grady, the TUC general secretary, said child poverty in working households had shot up since 2010. “Years of falling incomes and benefit cuts have had a terrible human cost. Millions of parents are struggling to feed and clothe their kids,” she said.

“The government is in denial about how many working families just can’t make ends meet. We need ministers to boost the minimum wage now, and use the social security system to make sure no child grows up in a family struggling to get by.”

The report was published as a march is planned in London this Saturday calling for a new deal for workers.

The report said a household was considered to be in relative poverty if its income was less than 60% of median income after housing costs.

A government spokeswoman said it did not recognise the TUC’s figures. She said: “The reality is there are now 1 million fewer people living in absolute poverty compared with 2010, including 300,000 fewer children.

“We want every child to get the very best chances in life. We know the best route out of poverty is through work, which is why it’s really encouraging that both the employment rate and household incomes have never been higher.”

if it won?

i) ban anyone from owning more than one media outlet
ii) bring in an "honest services" offence, making directors and above be required to perform their duties for the good of their company, not themselves
iii) make it easier for investors and shareholders to sue accountancy firms that do not detect fraud / false accounting in the firms they audit
iv) bring in the offshore ownership register that Cameron promised and look to increase the tax burden on offshored properties
v) build a very large number of social homes, and bring in a better version of right-to-buy (for example, a family has a home and pays slightly above the rental value for 30 years, at the end of the period the home is theirs, they can dispose of it amongst the family but the state has first refusal if they sell it).
vi) electrify the rest of the railway network and expand it where possible
vii) buy up as many PFI schemes as possible, and if necessary depress the sale price by raising each and every contract issue they can think of (as Boris did)
viii) make lobbying by or on behalf of foreign governments illegal
ix) bring in a much better safety concerns reporting system across government and in public agencies, especially the NHS and police / prisons
x) look to increase the amount and quality of services the state provides whilst reducing the money it pays out (in tax credits, child benefit, other welfare payments etc)

The announcement politics of the Tories always never happen. Cameron vowed to 'tackle' poverty as did May. The buffoon will do the same, more announcement politics and lapped up by the MSM as if it's reality.

More than 4m in UK are trapped in deep poverty, study finds

"It found that of 14.3 million in the UK in poverty, 4.5 million were in deep poverty – a third of all those on the breadline, and 7% of the population. In cash terms this means a couple with two children would have an income of less than £211 a week after housing costs, and a single parent with one child would be on less than £101.50 a week.
The finding echoes wider concerns about the re-emergence of extreme poverty, known as destitution, which separate research has shown was experienced by an estimated 1.5 million people in the UK as a result of benefits cuts and high rents. A destitution level of income is £140 a week for a couple with two children.
Although overall rates of poverty have changed relatively little since 2000-01, certain groups – such as children, children of lone parents, and pensioners – have had hardship levels rise since 2013 as a result of austerity measures such as the benefit freeze, reversing earlier downward trends, the commission said.
There has been a dramatic rise in child poverty in families with three or more children, up 9% points since 2013-14. This is in part a result of policies that penalise larger families such as the benefit freeze. The figures do not capture the impact of the two-child benefit limit introduced in 2017, which is likely to push levels even higher"

 

[Charro]

What about this guy?

 

[Rita_Poon]

What about this guy?

It's only 4 and a half years ago. What could have happened?

 

[mightymoyes]

Labour never promised to undo the tory cap of two children allowed child support benefit.
Now they're being held to account for it.
I'm asking where the previous noise was regards this issue, because it looks a bit like convenient timing to me.

So you were against it 7 years ago but are now giving labour a bye ball for not scraping it cos it's too expensive?
How does that make sense?

 

[supertoffee98]

Keir Starmer's Labour Party: kid starving capitalists at home, genocide apologists abroad. I said to my mates before the election, you go ahead and vote for Murdoch's candidate, go and vote for a man that supports Israel and blames trans people and Bangladeshis for society's problems. Once again a reminder - it wasn't Hamas beheading children as the Israeli press lined up to condemn them for on October 7th, it was the IDF and Zionist terrorists during their continuing ethnic cleansing.

Starmer's hollowed out Labour, expelled Socialists and Communists who had a rightful place in the party ever since 1900 and has made it into a toothless, neutered force for anything good, and turned Labour into an enthusiastic cheer leader for the worst of humanity.

 

[Rita_Poon]

So you were against it 7 years ago but are now giving labour a bye ball for not scraping it cos it's too expensive?
How does that make sense?

No, it's not a bye ball, I'm revolted the same as I was, but they've stuck to their word - as awful as this turns out to be, because the country is in the gutter. Implement this with money from social care? nhs? it's all in the pockets of mone and gove and their closest gangster pals. It's in the IOU's the BoE had to step in and sign because of the truss disaster budget. I despise the harm done and being prolonged. To the most vulnerable in society. 6th wealthiest economy in the world apparently. I reckon when they've had chance to alter a few things and find a few quid from down the back of the sofa they'll face this as soon as they can.

Three weeks in. 5.5% agreed already for a deal to fix strikes this past week. Junior doctors on the cards next. 14 years of harm and theft. It was impossible to address and fix this quickly. Patience was asked for, it fell on deaf ears.

Put the tories back in, let's really get some harm done. Another 14 years should see britain consigned to the history books. Hooray.