“Starmer-Kendall disability benefit change is targeted war on people with mental health issues”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“New points structure is designed to deny support to those with mental illness or neurodivergence”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/15/starmer-kendall-disability-benefit-change-is-targeted-war-on-people-with-mental-health-issues/

"They waited until late at night, but look at this little nugget and see what they snuck in in an effort to cut government: Scholars, museums, the Interagency Council on Homelessness and . . .

"The Minority Business Development Agency"
-B Karem

The reason the UK Labour government is cutting support for the sick and disabled is because, like the Tories before them, they know it’s easier for them to hound the poor and ill than it is to properly tax the rich. Cowards the lot of them. #Indyclan #Austerity #Starmer #AnasSarwar

Austerity was invented in Italy in the late 1920’s.

Remember who came into power there then? His name starts with M, his intellectual supporters were futurists and his followers wore black shirts.

#austerity literally is a #fascist invention.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pkn0296wKFk

Kids & the low income families will go hungry, & farmers will suffer, as the USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools.

The #USAD has axed 2 programs that gave schools & food banksto buy food from local farms & ranchers ~$660M that schools & child care FACs were counting on to purchase food from nearby farms through the Local Food for Schools Coop AGT Program in 2025 has been canceled.

Please continue to call your Senators & Reps.
#Austerity #Hunger #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796

“House Republicans just unveiled their 99-pg budget, & the numbers don’t lie, it’s packed with cuts that hurt everyday Americans.

$15B cut from veterans’ HC
$8B slashed from Medicaid hospitals
$1.5B less for mothers & kids’ nutrition
No new BP hiring
No increase for cybersecurity

Rural America, working families, vets—they’re all getting hit. Ask Congress: Which of these cuts are they proud of?”
-R Saddler

Please call your GOP Senators & Reps.

#Budget #USPol #Austerity
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20250310/CRFull_xml.pdf

Addiction is not the primary cause of homelessness, capitalism is.

"Washington has become Nero’s court, withan incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, & a jester high on ketamine.”

French Senator Claude Malhuret this week delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump & Musk, & he compared their reign to that of an infamously debauched Roman emperor.

Dems should invite Malhuret to Congress to show them how to push back against #TrumpMusk.

#Stagflation #Austerity #Recession #Tariffs #DOGE #Firings #Resist #USPol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcwOPNo8qrs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-jester-high-on-ketamine-french-senator-delivers-blistering-rebuke-of-trump-and-musk/ar-AA1AjX1A

DOGE significant budget cuts: sets limit for BLM firefighters' credit cards & travel credit cards at $1, making it impossible for them to buy supplies or travel to wildfire sites.

The Trump admin froze the disbursement of ~$3B in wildfire mitigation-related funds -includes things like clearing dead branches & undergrowth that can help wildfires spread quickly if not removed ahead of time.

#Musk finds diabolical ways to sicken & kill ppl.
#DOGE #USPol #Austerity #USPol https://www.alternet.org/doge-firefighters/

The National Audit Office thinks around half of England's councils may plunge into bankruptcy in the next couple of years unless there is concerted political action to avoid the crisis.

This has been a slow-burning, Tory engineered crisis & its quite possible that it will now blow up in Labour's face; it isn't inevitable but given Labour's continued austerity-based policy logic I've little confidence their new funding package will solve the problem!

#austerity #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/28/almost-half-of-englands-councils-could-face-bankruptcy-over-deficit

At #Trump's behest, top LTs on his campaign threatened NH GOP officials that they could kiss the primary goodbye, *&* they could expect the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to lose its funding.

Bc: of a subsequently scrapped debate b/w DeSantis & Haley -set to air on CNN +the reg. scheduled one on WMUR, the only local news station in NH.

Shipyard: in ME, but a major employer in NH. Now: under a hiring freeze.

Mobster rule is harmful, destructive, & deadly.

#USPol #Austerity https://straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-portsmouth-naval-shipyard

"600 layoffs at Tinker AFB are reportedly set to occur in the morning with no warning & no plan. This isn’t “efficiency” it’s dismantling livelihoods and endangering our state’s & country’s future. Unacceptable"
-OK ST Rep Dollens

Weakening the US military is another gift to Putin. Dismantling the federal govt, esp. the miliary & law enforcement imperils #NationalSecurity #PublicSafety & the #Economy.

#Firings #DOGE #Military #Austerity #Resist #USPol

https://thisistopeka.com/2025/02/breaking-600-civilian-employees-at-tinker-air-force-base-set-for-termination-amid-workforce-shakeup/

Guilherme Klein Martins (to few people's surprise, surely) argues that austerity has a longer shadow than economists predicted:

Austerity is not a precursor to long-term prosperity - its costs outweigh any proposed benefits;

Its shock/sudden fiscal adjustments are damaging in themselves;

Long-term growth is a lot more important than short-term deficit reduction for future prosperity.

None of this is necessarily news, but its worth reiterating!

#austerity #economics

https://theconversation.com/in-the-struggle-to-get-britain-working-the-long-shadow-of-austerity-could-be-part-of-the-problem-249888

Austerity affects nearly everyone in the UK. The top 20% in £ were mostly shielded though even they have to drive on bad roads & etc. Whether or not you’re in Wales, tell us how #austerity impacted you and your family and community, here or editor@bylines.cymru
#AusterityProject

“Kid-starver Starmer doesn’t bother to tell suspended MPs he’s stabbed them in the back”

by Maryam Jameela in The Canary @thecanaryuk

@UKLabour

“[..] Starmer is adding insult to injury by punishing those who criticise his government. As usual, it’s two women of colour on the line for defending Palestine, & hungry children.

The nasty party’s back.”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/02/05/sultana-begum-whip-labour/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg