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A new post by me:
There is no-one holding the safety net jamiedthunder.medium.com/the…
They've juiced the comparison by including health element of UC & PIP. And lots of that income will go straight to a landlord.
Meanwhile the working family - unless they have >£16k in savings - will almost certainly be able to receive Universal Credit themselves.
Not sure the quasi-conspiratorial "this small powerful elite controls our politics" framing is helpful here.
We borrow a lot of money. If we want to borrow more, our actions will determine the interest rate at which people/institutions are willing to lend to us.
Debt traders in the City of London are controlling our politics - the reporting in this by @willydunn is revealing and extraordinary.
If this instead creates a 3-child limit, or punishes children of out-of-work parents, then it's a disgraceful missed opportunity.
Not surprised they didn't announce it at conference if this is what they have in mind. Labour values of reluctance, timidity, and compromise?
EXCL: Rachel Reeves to lift the two-child benefit limit in the budget with officials exploring options of a new tapered system @jessicaelgot reveals
theguardian.com/society/2025…
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An amazing person helping tell an important story:
“Terminally ill should be spared council tax, say charities” bbc.com/news/articles/cr79dn…
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The heartbreaking moment when you or your family member gets the devastating news of terminal illness, the last thing you need is to worry about money & bills.
So we are exempting people their families from council tax.
Thanks to @mariecurieuk for championing ending poverty.
Terminally ill Mancunians to get council tax written off in 'pioneering' move manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
I'll believe it when I see it (but having spent quite a bit of time pre-election telling skeptics I was pretty sure it'd be gone in the first term, despite the weak refusal to commit to scrapping it during the campaign, I'll feel a bit vindicated!)
Keir Starmer backs end of two child benefit cap and tells Treasury to find the money - my story for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/national…
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many thanks to @FootballCliches for drawing our attention to this all-timer for Awkward Footballer content — Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg prefacing his praise for a Korean egg soufflé with ‘no disrespect to egg’
