To think incompetent hypocrite Starmer has lost the respect of the people and his own party in record time?

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An excoriating letter from Rosie Duffield who resigned today..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rosie-duffield-resignation-letter-starmer-labour-b2620603.html#comments-area

Been bad enough for her to resign, I wonder what will happen next. Does she know something we don’t?

Absolute storm in a teacup. Ministers are absolutely allowed to accept gifts. He's done nothing wrong.

If it were just some specs and suits for Starmer I’d agree. If it were that plus a stay in the Covent Garden penthouse I’d still agree.

But it’s the rampant, startling hypocrisy.

Tories snuffling like truffle pigs? Appalling. Labour snuffling like truffle pigs? Unimpeachable. Tories on private jets? Terrible, contemptible. Labour on private jets? Nothing to see here.

Tory cronyism (which was lied about a lot by Labour anyway)? Horrible, disgraceful. Labour cronyism? All fine.

Tories might cut WFA? Outrageous, callous (that was just 10 months ago - and the Tories didn’t touch it). Labour do cut WFA? All good.

The trouble with hypocrites is that they’re usually dishonest and untrustworthy generally.

Germany, post WW1.

Pity the Labour Party don’t agree !!

Lol, as if.
Starmer over Boris any day.

She means a motability car. Paid for by qualifying for the higher rate mobility allowance of PIP which most people with severe mobility problems caused by an actual physical disability have trouble qualifying for because the bar is set so high. It’s fucking nonsense. Posted on the premise that her mother knows everything there is to know about the disability and the benefit claim. If, as a disabilty outreach worker, I’d had £1 for every person I came across who was convinced their neighbour/relative/friend was claiming fraudulently I’d be posting from a beach in the Bahamas. It’s shite.

IT DOESN”T.

Exactly. The government know how anxious the wait for clarification is making all of those disabled people who rely on these benefits to make ends meet. If they’re not going to follow the proposals in the consultation document why don’t they just come out and say it.

Attendance allowance is provided by central government, not local councils, you’re talking absolute shite.

She also hid true unemployment figures by encouraging the DWP to put as many people ‘on the sick’ as they could because at the time they didn’t qualify as unemployed. And she decimated the UK manufacturing industry in favour of her mates in banking and service industries. The fact that you support what she did tells me that you don’t know the first thing about the Tory government of that era. I lived through it and worked in a jobcentre at the forefront of the cuts. As a nation we still haven’t recovered from what Thatcher did.

I am just SO disgusted that Kier Starmer thinks that wearing smart clothes is so important, that he needs someone else to pay for them. Personally, I'd rather my PM wore jeans and a polo shirt, provided he actually cared about the people of this country that voted for him. While I didn't vote Labour, I did vote strategically to get the other lot out, thinking that at least a new government might have learned lessons from the sleaze and disgusting behaviour of the Tories, but instead, what do we get, just more of the same, who can't wait to get their snouts in the trough! I am appalled, and would have found myself writing the same letter as Rosie Duffield, had I been in his government. So watch out Mr Starmer, you are already on borrowed time in my opinion!

There’s something in that, on one point of view.

There’s also a whole lot of stuff you didn’t include about the dire state of the country, industry and economy that Thatcher had to put right.

Great post.

I am just SO disgusted that Kier Starmer thinks that wearing smart clothes is so important, that he needs someone else to pay for them. Personally, I'd rather my PM wore jeans and a polo shirt provided he actually cared about the people of this country that voted for him

Can you imagine if he did, you'd still have people moaning, how he's so scruffy and doesn't give a toss, no respect etc.

Our council categorically state that they provide the carers, which is partly paid for by the attendance allowance which is not nearly enough. Hence our council picking up the bill.

My mother helped this person for a number of years. A lovely man with a serious heart condition who needed the car to get around.

We're in rural Wales, no buses, no train station nearby. His car was changed every three years for him until he died.

Another neighbour with silicosis qualified for one too. He worked in the quarry, his lungs were wrecked.

"Getting a Motability car - Citizens Advice" https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/wales/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/help-for-disabled-travellers1/motability-scheme/getting-a-motability-car/

Is that comparable to the 21st century UK?

I’d argue not.

Yes I know @justasking111 meant the Motability scheme. I am not sure she did though. She possibly really believes the"free car" shite. Not sure what she meant by the "booze allowance" crap.

I do agree with that. He can’t meet Biden, Macron or Meloni in a pair of Stan Smiths, jeans and a t-shirt. Or go to the Cenotaph dressed badly.

But he could buy his own clothes and glasses.

Never seen Zelensky in a shirt and tie and he has more integrity, charisma and respect on the world stage in his little finger.

So what was the point you were trying to make when you said "A few years ago an alcoholic neighbour of my mother's got a disability car" and could you please explain more about "booze allowance."?

It still doesn’t alter the fact that councils are not responsible for administering AA - eligibility is determined by DWP and payments come from the benefit budget. The care system run by local authorities is totally separate - they take AA into account for home carers, along with the persons’ ability to pay from their own income but AA was never meant to completely cover the cost of care. It’s meant as a contribution to the extra cost of living with a disability, and care is only one element of that. If you go into full time residential care provided at the expense of the local authority AA is stopped because it’s an overlapping benefit unless you’re funding your own care.

They can’t because it wasn’t.

Don’t know where to start with this. You absolutely cannot factor in disability when considering someone for a job. Any more than you can factor in race, sex or religion. That’s why the Equality Act exists. To protect your DC and others like him from being discriminated against on the grounds of disability. If you start down the road of excluding the very people the act was meant to protect where does it end ? I was a disability outreach worker for over 15 years and during that time l worked flat out to protect the rights of people like your son, and l’m severely disabled myself, so you know what you can do with your utterly insulting and ill thought through accusation of ‘virtue signalling’.