The headline in The Guardian reads, ‘Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts.’
Britain’s benefits system is the “worst of all worlds”, with the number of people out of work or training “indefensible and unfair”, the prime minister has said as he prepares for deep cuts to disability payments.
‘Addressing a private meeting of Labour MPs Keir Starmer said he would take tough decisions to cut the bill for working age health and disability benefits, which is expected to hit £70bn by 2030.
The government has already vowed to cut £3bn over the next three years and is expected to announce billions more in savings from the personal independence payment (Pip), the main disability benefit.’
The guy is wasted in his role as Prime Minister. He should be a stand-up comedian. He would have his audience rolling in the aisles with mirth.
He’s already got plenty of knock ‘em dead material – different material to the one that wants to send the British working class to go fight and die in Ukraine.
His ‘welfare’ material includes, ‘It runs contrary to those deep British values that if you can work, you should. And if you want to work, the government should support you, not stop you’.
Also, ‘This is the Labour party. We believe in the dignity of work and we believe in the dignity of every worker, which is why I am not afraid to take the big decisions needed to return this country to their interests whether that’s on welfare, immigration, our public services or our public finances’.
Just give us a minutes whilst we wipe the tears fro our eyes and hold our aching from laughter stomachs. Firstly, who on earth still thinks that the Labour Party represents the working class? Did those who voted for it in 2024 think so? Secondly, the ‘deep British values’ are those of the ruling British capitalist class who have no qualms at all about firing workers when economic circumstances change and it’s profits are negatively affected.
Work is a Hobson’s Choice in a capitalist society where the necessities of life can only be obtained through the means of exchange which means selling one’s physical/mental labour power for a wage/salary in order to buy what one needs in order to live, work...repeat, and repeat again and again.‘The government is concerned that the recent growth in the bill for these benefits, which rose by nearly £13bn to £48bn between 2019-20 and 2023-24, is unsustainable.’ Governments within a capitalist system are there to run affairs for the benefit of the national capitalist class as a whole even if the are disagreements about various things between that class.
This threatened attack upon the weak in society is intended to lessen the burden of the capitalist class in its financial support of the state.
Starmer’s warfare will need funding from somewhere too.
How much longer willl the majority allow this all to continue? As Percy Shelley pointed out, we are many, they are few! Better late than never to understand and implement socialism. What’s stopping that?
Note: not suggesting socialism in one country only, socialism has to replace capitalism globally.
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