Research from the homelessness charity Crisis and the campaign group Health Equals found fewer than three in every 100 private rental properties listed in England were affordable for people on housing benefit between April and October 2024.
The Labour freeze on housing benefit will push many more thousands into homelessness and arrears.
Dave Brown's #RoguesGallery after #WTSmedley @Independent on #RachelReeves #Starmer #LabourParty #SpringStatement #BenefitCuts #WelfareCuts #LabourAusterity #Austerity #ChildPoverty – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Labour won a massive majority. They had a choice: tax the rich and invest in people or slash welfare and call it ‘fiscal discipline.’ Guess which one they picked? Spoiler: It wasn’t taxing billionaires. #StarmerBetrayal #LabourAusterity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/panel-chancellor-rachel-reeves-defence-spending-welfare-cuts-growth-forecasts
As the Spring Statement approaches, let’s be clear: we need policies that protect people, not punish them.
Fair societies invest in people, not punish them. A strong welfare system strengthens communities, boosts the economy, and creates a fairer future for all.
Austerity doesn’t fix deficits – it worsens them. When people struggle to afford basics, economic activity slows, tax revenues drop, and public finances suffer. Austerity is a failed experiment.
Welfare cuts don’t boost the economy – they harm it. Less money in people’s pockets means less spending, weaker businesses, and slower growth. Supporting people supports the economy.
Cutting welfare shifts the burden elsewhere. Less support means more pressure on the NHS, housing, and social services. The costs don’t disappear—they just hit the most vulnerable harder.
Poverty isn’t a policy success – it’s a political choice. Welfare cuts don’t ‘incentivise work’—they push people further into hardship. We need a system that lifts people up, not holds them down.
Welfare is not a luxury – it’s a lifeline. Cutting support leaves millions struggling and weakens our society. A fair system protects its most vulnerable.
"It breaks my heart to know so many people in a country as wealthy and developed as the UK are experiencing hunger.
"Through my work with Trussell, I know that the reality of these cuts will be parents in disabled families having to skip meals so that they can feed their children.
"Things don't have to be this way. We must shout as loud as we can to let the UK Government know this plan is wrong."
● Stanley Tucci via The National
Sarwar has lost what control he had of the #OptionalIdentityMark.
He's had his chips, just like his bogus "party".
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25026708.anas-sarwar-denies-scottish-labour-fallout-benefit-cuts/
#SarwarLiesToScotland
#SarwarGaslightsScotland
#Liebour
#LabourBetrayal
#LabourAusterity
#WeWarnedYou
"Through my work with Trussell, I know the reality of these cuts will be parents in disabled families having to skip meals so that they can feed their children. Things don’t have to be this way. We must shout as loud as we can to let the UK government know this plan is wrong.”
Stanley Tucci
#Disability #PIP #BenefitCuts #LabourAusterity #UKPolitcs
‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/21/stain-on-this-country-celebrities-condemn-cuts-to-uk-disability-benefits?CMP=GTUK_email
@Geri Full American copy. #LabourAusterity
"...if the intention is to encourage more disabled people into work, then Labour should be looking at the barriers people with disabilities face when trying to access the workplace, such as the housing and care costs, plus the disability markup on essential products."
PIP cuts: Labour is making it harder for disabled people to work | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pip-cuts-labour-is-making-it-harder-for-disabled-people-to-work
#LabourAusterity #PIP
Time once again to post Richard Murphy's 'Taxing Wealth Report" in the light of more rumoured cuts from Rachel 'Austerity' Reeves.
"The Taxing Wealth Report shows that by making up to thirty relatively simple changes to existing UK taxes, up to £90 billion of new tax revenue could be raised a year, entirely from those who are well off or who are straightforwardly wealthy. Only those in the top 10% of income earners should be affected"
"Increasingly I’m trying to figure out what we’re doing that the Tories wouldn’t be if they were in power.”
Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement | Economic policy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/19/reeves-to-reveal-biggest-uk-spending-cuts-since-austerity-in-spring-statement
“To paraphrase Neil Kinnock’s 1983 speech[,] under this Labour Government – I warn you not to be ordinary – I warn you not to be young – I warn you not to fall ill – I warn you not to get old.”
● Neil Findlay, former Labour MSP in a letter to Starmer, 19/3/2025
#LabourInNameOnly
#LabourBetrayal
#LabourAusterity
#VoteStarmerGetThatcher
#OptionalIdentityMark
#WeWarnedYou
#FBPE #RejoinEU 
