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

[TealTraybake]

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?

? Biden

That’s crazy dangerous. I am talking about the UK though. So let’s not let common sense and the actually reality of the law evade us. Any regulated profession also has certain caveats and exemptions.

I shall slink off now to a quiet corner somewhere to hang my head in shame. I am clearly a despicable person.😂😂😂

As far as I’m aware there are exceptions to disability protection for armed forces and positions of national security, but these have to be objectively justified, proportionate and relevant. It’s not a licence to disregard the legal provisions of the act pertaining to disability or any other protected characteristic - EHRC website has a useful list of the circumstances in which exemption is permitted and how it should be applied.

I am aware. I have experience in this area. Strawman arguments that the equality act must mean that everyone is eligible for every job are not only false, they don’t have any common sense behind them.

Yep

No, they have reactionary ("anti-woke") political propaganda behind them.

💯 this

Twitter is lively tonight. Starmer and others are getting sucked into this mess.

Is Starmer still abroad?

Biden's party made him step down as candidate.

Trump may yet get to be president, however; and he's not exactly right in the head.

She squandered North Sea and privatisation revenues - if she had done what Norway did then we'd have a multi trillion wealth fund - instead the millionaires got it. You can't call that fixing the economy.

Tories seem to have a fixation with economic experiments, she had monetarism acknowledged even then as a failure - ems/erm followed as part of the trail to trussonomics. They play with our future all the time - it's just a game to them.

They seem to be trying to do something about Trump, but keep missing 🙈

Will sausage boy have to go then or will he brazen it out?

So why are we all worried about the budget and why does starmer keep saying , it's going to be bleak.
Both things cannot be true.

Didimum · 28/09/2024 23:27
An estimated £23bn a year in benefits goes unclaimed by pensioners who are entitled to it but aren’t claiming. They need to start doing so and then they will also get the allowance. The system needs to be fair, efficient and economic, and it has been a wasteful shambles ever since it started.

This is hilarious, the WFA costs iirc 1.3 billion, so it's just fine to cancel it and save money, but if all the pensioners claim what they are owed (and I urge you all to try help as many as possible) it will cost 23bn. Slow fucking handclap.

It's not hilarious at all, it's very sensible, as taxpayers' cash will be targeted at the pensioners who need the funds, and not the wealthy pensioners like my parents and their friends who currently receive WFA. As I said above, my parents used last year's to pay for business class flights to South America. (Guided tours on luxury boats down the Amazon sound great by the way.....)
Labour are actively encouraging those who need it the most, to ensure they are receiving their entitlement.

Did you expect him to have a maguc wand?
Did you expect someone called Sir not to be self serving?

Quite. And she didn’t put industry right, she obliterated it along with social housing. Now we don’t make anything any more and have to import it and have no affordable housing. The damage she did is irreparable and austerity took the wrecking ball to what was left.

It was all deliberate too. Like many on this thread, Thatcher was entirely opposed to the welfare state. She believed it was too socialist, whereas I’d argue that modern day opponents are victims of Thatcherism, having had it instilled into them by decades of right wing ideology that people have huge senses of entitlement, want “freebies” and “handouts”, that “personal responsibility is a common sense concept rather than a phrase co-opted by the right as justification for inequality.

Or perhaps they see regular stories such as this and think that, perhaps, the welfare state is too generous and being abused?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/25/mother-welfare-benefits-breast-surgery-horse-marie-buchan/

There are definitely some interesting stories on Twitter that might explain his living arrangements.

The welfare state is not synonymous with the benefits system 😂

Do people truly believe what they read on X? If all that was true we’d be living in an entirely parallel universe!

Errr. Yes it is.

@ChallahPlaiter why the crying laughing emoji for the term welfare state?

Why not? You asked for historic precedent, and have then moved the goalposts when provided with comparisons.

Germany is comparable in terms of the financial impact being discussed - fellow G8 country, European neighbour, crippled by debt, printed money, suffered hyperinflation. We've not suffered world war in this century, but in terms of financial ruin, we visited Brexit on ourselves and then had Covid to contend with, so not too much of a stretch.

I'd have said Greece as well, but that's not directly comparable either, since it's economy has never been anywhere near as strong as ours.

So, there are historic precedents, just not directly comparable. Because to be directly comparable we'd need a twinned country, with the same history, same industries, same economics etc.