@Geri@mastodon.online#Labour campaigned on a vision of welfare reform that emphasized dignity, opportunity, and fixing a "broken system" - language that signalled improvement.
But months after their landslide victory, #austerity has emerged again. The reformed #PIP criteria excludes hundreds of thousands of disabled people. The Work Capability Assessment is to be abolished. Ppl under 22 with health conditions would be denied additional support & Winter Fuel Payments have been stripped from millions of pensioners
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And he's only just started.
@Geri That cringey Trump/Starmer meeting wasn't too hard for him, I don't think. He admires Trump as he admired Borish and seeks to emulate them. Be sporting a funny hairdo next, or waving a chainsaw. I think he really wants to be like them and is working his way to it.
@TheDailyBurble it is a giant neo-liberal enterprise that he is fully wedded to
@Geri Oh I think he's full on into it. Gut feeling.