Thread 46 Starmer: Meloj kaj kastoroj sur monbiletoj, arbaro de kolero

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Today

• 450k children lifted out of poverty as the 2-child cap of benefits is lifted

• 4.8% rise in state pensions

• 3.8% rise in most working-age benefits like PIP and Housing Benefit (above inflation)

• 6.2% increase in the standard rate of Universal Credit

• the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation through the Employment Rights Act

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/06/sick-pay-rule-changes-benefit-uk-workers-tuc
Sick pay rule changes to benefit up to 9.6m UK workers, TUC says

Union says new entitlements, part of Employment Rights Act 2025, will help lower-income households

Neil Carberry, the chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation said the usual: that businesses will struggle, especially with the war in the Middle East.

It reminds me of what was said by Eva Stratt (Sandra Huller) in Project Hail Mary: There'll be shortages of food and although we know that the proper thing to do is to share, we also know that won't happen - obviously paraphrasing. Apologies for not putting the umlaut over the u in Sandra's surname.

It's a very popular move by Labour amongst those who work.

Wait…I keep being told (by Polanski’s fans mostly) that Labour have gutted benefits. Is that not the case then? (Head tilt)

Well tbf Labour has made detrimental changes to ESA and there are going to be PIP reforms.

Re: the lifting of the two child benefit cap. I have seen some thinly veiled racism about that from Daily Mail readers, implying that Muslims will be especially benefiting from the change.

Of course no one mentions the push on the far right for white women to have more babies.

There's also the degradation of the Motability scheme that now ignores clinical need.

Yes, I forgot about that. I also see that the mileage allowance has been halved.

A very interesting post about political narrative by Yuliia Bond
https://www.facebook.com/100006908703621/posts/pfbid02wyv5SEjjQGZQFoMfwkoJjGMz6qynb3LwpfyVYahMoQergU2zDKdMaKXKfkQJXuP4l/?

I can't speak for mileage allowances. However many cars are completely unsuitable for people with the spectrum of mobility issues that exist. From needing a higher seat (which tends towards an SUV chassis) to needing enough room for an accessibly wheelchair (which tends towards a larger loading car).

However the single most useful "adaptation" for a disabled motorist is to have an automatic transmission. And you knew that the Motability scheme exists for dealers not customers when you learn that the base model for a Motability contract is the manual version.

The fading of ICE cars is removing that paradox, so it's only right they bring in anew one.

I won't say more - it tends to get me on the naughty step.

I heard a discussion about the introduction of black boxes to motability vehicles which was interesting.
Im not saying Labour are doing enough or all the right things but taken as a whole their benefit and employment and rent changes seem positive (though obvs not to those negatively affected by some of it).

I heard a discussion about the introduction of black boxes to motability vehicles which was interesting.

The #1 interest when I looked into them in the early noughties was to monetise the data therein.

Caerphilly doing good work again 😃

dan arweiniad asynnod ?

Seeing ourselves as others see us ?

Local I think. It’s the office where ‘you can fuck off home now’ or similar was spray painted after the by election.

Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project"

Yes. It's the same one in Caerphilly.

Matthew Goodwin, described by some on this site as "outstanding" and "head and shoulders" above the other G&D candidates. It would be funny if it wasn't so disturbing that people fall for the likes of him.

https://bsky.app/profile/josiahmortimer.bsky.social/post/3mit2gopp222r

worth reading this in full.
looks like money from Russia -> Orban/Hungarian right wing think tanks -> sponsor a variety of UK right wingers

Those Russia links keep popping up

Enda is a male name. The Irish Examiner is left of centre msm.

He probably writes posts daily on this site about the cost of living crisis and how it's really tough to get by.

Just had to share this...

https://bsky.app/profile/artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social/post/3miu6x6wkxs2f

The UK will refuse US requests to use British bases for strikes on Iranian bridges or power plants, The i Paper reports.

UK officials argue targeting civilian infrastructure would be a war crime.