Comments on: The government are on the verge of defeat over a key welfare reform https://leftfootforward.org/2017/09/the-government-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-over-a-key-welfare-reform/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:02:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Carole McGowan https://leftfootforward.org/2017/09/the-government-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-over-a-key-welfare-reform/#comment-928109 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:02:31 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=123707#comment-928109 Jobcenters botch everything,I was told I was entitled to six months job seekers allowance,then they stopped it after three!.when I phoned them to ask what I was supposed to live on?they told me to live off my husbands income!
So much for equal rights!

]]> By: Jay ginn https://leftfootforward.org/2017/09/the-government-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-over-a-key-welfare-reform/#comment-928027 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:45:07 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=123707#comment-928027 The Universal Credit and the old means tested system have clearly failed.
What is needed instead is
1 . a Citizens Basic Income, paid unconditionally to every legally resident individual in UK (just as child benefit is universal, only taxed for a few) to provide a secure permanent small income
2. Rent regulation to minimise the need for housing benefit
3. National Living Wage enforced and an end to zero hours contracts
4. Childcare services that are affordable and accessible for all

]]> By: LordBlagger https://leftfootforward.org/2017/09/the-government-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-over-a-key-welfare-reform/#comment-927860 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:41:17 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=123707#comment-927860 When you consider that rent is paid monthly, waiting six weeks for housing benefit to come through is a disaster – and one that could leave thousands of people on the brink of homelessness. I should know – a close friend is currently sleeping on my sofa because of the delays. What happens if people can’t rely on friends and family?

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Or the state. The state is bankrupt. 10 trillion pounds of pension debts.

What you need instead is that people invest and own their wealth, instead of you spending their wealth and then walking away when the consequences come home. [34% of taxes go on the state’s debts]

If people had their own wealth, they wouldn’t need the welfare state.

It would just be a small minority, rather than the majority who need a subsidy now.

You’ll discover the consequences, and its pretty clear.

Austerity, poverty, wealth inequality all have their roots in the decision to spend people’s money, redistribute it, and racking up 10 trillion pounds of pension debt with no assets, no capital to make good on the promises.

]]> By: Simon https://leftfootforward.org/2017/09/the-government-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-over-a-key-welfare-reform/#comment-927843 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:30:05 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=123707#comment-927843 If Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t make a REAL stand against this penicious, cruel, callous, murderous policy, and does not state categorically, that Labour WILL scrap this AS WELL as holding a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into the deaths caused by this policy, a policy condemned by the United Nations, then it is only a matter of time in the near future, when this whole rotten edifice will collapse, and it will not only be a Labour government that has to sort out the mess, but the tens of thousands of compensation claims that will exceed £20billion!

]]> By: Dulari-Leiylah Markelke https://leftfootforward.org/2017/09/the-government-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-over-a-key-welfare-reform/#comment-927831 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:50:27 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=123707#comment-927831 What the tory MPs frightened of electoral defeat when did a tory authentically care about welfare.

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