It is extraordinary that the Labour party could have got itself into such a muddle over welfare reform (which is Tory-speak for crippling welfare cutbacks) when Osborne’s sole motive for this bill, which had its second reading today, is to create divisions within Labour and label it as the party of shirkers. The bill is […]
Posts Tagged ‘Benefit Cap’
The Tories’ Welfare Bill was an attack on those in poverty. Why did only 48 of us vote against it?
Jul 21st, 2015 by Michael Meacher.
Lobby your MP to join Labour rebellion against social security cap
Mar 24th, 2014 by Conrad Landin.The New Statesman report today that Labour MPs including Diane Abbott, Ian Lavery and John McDonnell are planning to vote against capping benefit, when a vote on this issue takes place this Wednesday, “with more to follow”. Abbott told the Statesman that the benefit cap was “part of a political narrative which demonises welfare claimants; most […]
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Social cleansing Tory-style: housing benefit cap plus bedroom tax
Mar 26th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.On 6 April, the start of the new financial year, on exactly the same day that 14,000 millionaires in the UK get a £40,000 per year rise in their net income from the abolition of the 50% rate of income tax, thousands of Britain’s poorest people will be forced then or soon after out of […]
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Kid gloves for the Banks and throw the poor on the street?
Feb 2nd, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Businesses need funding fast, so why doesn’t Osborne just order RBS and Lloyds to ratchet up the lending? After all, he controls 80% of the former and 40% of the latter, more than those who talked about seizing the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy ever dreamed of. Why instead does he go cap in hand […]
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Labour’s position on capping benefits
Jan 24th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Is Labour’s position on capping benefits a carefully-crafted thought-through policy from Liam Byrne, the man charged with overseeing Labour’s policy review? Or it is just a bit of triangulated political posturing from the man responsible for the “no money left” 2010 ‘gag’? We’ll leave it to your judgement. Labour’s front bench team yesterday explained its […]
