If the anonymous briefings in this article are to be believed, Starmer couldn't defend this policy to his own Cabinet, so I don't see how he can expect to defend it to anyone else.
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Disabled people are going to suffer really bad because of this. There will no doubt be excess deaths.
Labour taking such a strong anti-disabled stance is really alarming.
He's counting on the fact that no one really cares about disabled people. If this was a race or gender or religious issue there'd be (quite rightly) lots of debate on places like here and just in general too. But the oldest prejudice is still the safest to have - disabled people are seen as annoying embarrassing baggage by everyone. Its why all governments target them and its why the Nazis exterminated them first - no one cares.
Yes, I agree. Disability awareness is so much further behind others. Decent people will make negative assumptions,about a disabled person that they'd NEVER make about BAME.
There's an assumption that disabled benefits receivers are faking it, and yes, some are. They're also seen as beneath non disabled people, and therefore they're an easy one to attack.
Good thing we got rid of that anti semite Corbyn /s
Nice to see that labour are called that because they're the party of forcing us into labour, rather representing Labour.
It's been a race to the bottom since they dropped Clause 5, and even that was pretty light handed.