John Healey told the Labour Party conference that it is not progressive ‘to allow a bigger and bigger benefits’ bill warning that it was ‘immoral’ to leave young people on welfare dependency

Brace for another administration of austerity and victim blaming rather than taxing the wealthy.

Surely, it’s the people who are ill, poor and foreign who are to blame for the state of the country, and not the rich sucking up all the money.

As far as I can tell, this is just trying soften the blow and curtail the pushback these policies will inevitably face.

The time to cut funding, if ever, is when things are going great. That is the opposite of how things are now.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Looking back on when we first met.

    I cannot escape and I cannot forget.

    Burnham, you’re the one, you still turn me on,

    You can make me hope again

      • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        All Labour leaders need a song. This is Andy’s.

        Corbyn had: Oooooh Jeremy Cooooorbyn (the Corbyn song no reprieve).

        Starmer had: Working 9 to 5