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Sir Keir Starmer faces rebellion from Labour MPs over 'impossible to support' welfare reforms (news.sky.com)

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Dozens have thrown their support behind a letter urging the government to "delay" the proposals, which they blasted as "the biggest attack on the welfare state" since Tory austerity.

The MPs - who are restless after Labour's poor showing at last week's local elections - warned the prime minister that his plans to slash the welfare bill by £5bn a year were "impossible to support" without a "change in direction".

In the letter, seen by Sky News, the MPs said the reforms - which will tighten eligibility criteria for incapacity benefits - had caused a "huge amount of anxiety among disabled people and their families".

"The planned cuts of more than £7bn represent the biggest attack on the welfare state since George Osborne ushered in the years of austerity and over three million of our poorest and most disadvantaged will be affected," they wrote.
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A government impact assessment in March found an additional 250,000 people - including 50,000 children - could be pushed into relative poverty in the financial year ending 2030.

The MPs went on to say that while the benefits system needed reform, this needed to be done "with a genuine dialogue with disabled people's organisations".

"We also need to invest in creating job opportunities and ensure the law is robust enough to provide employment protections against discrimination," they added.

"Without a change in direction, the green paper will be impossible to support."

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They got elected for NOT being Tories. Why are they being Tories? Idiots.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 months ago

Party is a sock puppet for the regime, it gets switched as need but the core policy of fucking the pedons always stays the same.

Polarization of he peasants is the biggest poliscie advancement in recent history imho

Create a stalemate for little people while real people get to loot the country.

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Zionists in Labour installed Starmer and they demand "business friendly" policies.

They don't care if Labour is destroyed because they prefer the Conservatives anyway.

Preferential voting is Labour policy but it won't be implemented because the Zionists can't control multiple parties.

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Labour MPs need to overthrow Starmer, reverse austerity and end far-right rhetoric or the UK will descend into fascism.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately dozens in this case means 42. It takes 76 to remove labours majority. Assuming the Tories lib or dems don't back them.

200 plus for an inter party vonc.

Unfortunately labours plp are now right wing.

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Now? It's always been. More so now. Blair stacked the PLP and it's been right leaning since. Hence why the right lobby for rule changes that give the PLP higher weighted votes. Under Corbyn, he could barely get 36 nomination votes without some lending it for a diverse leadership competition. The right switched it back to 20% of PLP votes for leadership candidate to prevent a left candidate happening again.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Keep forgetting how young many on here are.

For some of us 97 seems not long ago. So we remember a left wing party.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

The Times reports on a separate letter signed by a 100 different Labour MPs, so the rebellion could be bigger, though the article says ministers believe the rebellion will still be confined to dozens.

Also, it's 83 MPs that need to rebel to defeat the govt.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

If supporting your populace is not possible then human society is not possible.

Because that's the reason we participate in human society

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The only way out of this fiscal deadlock is to end the triple lock. Growth is stagnating and our national debt has exceeded 100% of GDP. The interest rates on borrowing don't show any time of subsiding; soon we'll be paying a similar amount of interest on our debt each year as we spend on the entire DWP.