For anyone who is dependent on their disability benefit to not be homeless, starving, cold, or a combination of all three, they are making it a lot worse.
Let's gloss over that though, shall we?
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Did you know that if you're renting, you can get that rent paid by benefit?
That rent goes to a landlord who uses that rent to pay the mortgage on the property, maintain it (lol), and some profit.
If, however, you "own" your home and are responsible for paying the mortgage and maintenance, the best you can get is a loan to cover the interest only. You must pay this loan back with interest if/when you sell your home.
They'll happily pay over the odds for "rent" costs to landlords, but they won't pay less than that to you for your mortgage.
They're happy to pay a mortgage, just not to you, the benefit claimant.
The whole system is rigged to take from the poorest and filter it all to those who have more than enough.
Relevant reading, published today 20/03/2025;
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmtrans/770/report.html
They know being disabled is harder, far more stressful, and more expensive, they simply don't give a fuck.
Edit: They know way more than the horseshit they're feeding us about it, and they refuse to publish the reports that poke holes in their excuses.
The benefits system, relying as it does on privatisation from top to bottom, haemorrhages cash, this is truth.
Go find out how much actual cash goes in.
Then find out how much of that actually ends up in claimants' hands.
Then, finally, realise the scale of the problem.
Disabled and ill peons don't hand out shares and consultancy jobs to politicians.
Disability benefit claimants can't fight back with armies of lobbyists and lawyers, like the US based companies such as Amazon and Meta who not only avoid paying billions in tax every year, but get paid by UKgov to "invest in infrastructure" they need to profit from UK consumers.
"The Labour Party" are choosing to take from the poorest and most needy and give it to giant multinationals, as the Tories before them.
Trolls do it to be "edgy", Hungary does it because Orban sucks Putin's microcock at every opportunity.
He fancies his chances as part of the Union of Soviet Suckers and Rubes, Putin's redo of the grand old "Soviet Empire". Fucking LOL.
You are correct for the most part.
However, until the "world of work" accepts those "differences" without needing laws to force them to do so, labelling of differences will remain a requirement for those that require the help.
Taking away some the pittance they get to assist with how the world refuses to service the "different" is bad enough, to justify it with intentionally bent statistics and the medical opinions of "experts" that are actually economists is pure Tory territory.
Starmer's Labour is as bent as they come, and they're handing power to Reform at the next election with their disgusting policies. Calling it now for future reference.
"Intelligent Design"
Fucking LOL
Likewise, there are experts in neurology and psychology who dismiss said assertions, pointing to our progress in understanding and ability to diagnose now what we couldn't previously.
Many individuals previously labelled "difficult", "lazy", and "unmotivated" are now understood to be afflicted with medical problems. We can't yet do all that much about it, but we know more than we did.
As you can see, it largely depends on how much background knowledge you already have on the subject at hand as to what conclusions can be drawn from the wording.
Perhaps your view might not be the correct one, after all?
Edit: It is worth drawing attention to the fact that it suits no politician to lose the oft derided "lazy do-nothings" supposedly responsible for society's decline, or at the least a "drain on hard working families".
The pounds sterling cost of the entire welfare state would fit numerous times over into the unpaid taxes of the likes of Amazon et al.
So who exactly are the politicians really looking out for?
Edit 2: Going forward, Labour under Starmer will continue to be Tories in Red ties. The less well educated voters will, instead of "voting Labour 'cos they always have" will be taken in by "the pretty lie" and vote for Farage's Fascists instead, you just watch.
Edit 3: took only six days before the announcement that they're going to give money to US corporations via a tax cut.
Fuck Starmer, fuck the modern "Labour" party, fuck the entire first past the post, two party entitlement that got us here in the first place.
Guy Fawkes was onto something.
I wouldn't call 40+ years of exposure to politicians' half truths and twisting of words "baseless", but you do you.
Very carefully worded question that avoids any mention of who specifically the "experts" in question are, or what study exactly came to these conclusions.
There are "experts" that claim the world is flat, and "experts" that claim vaccines cause all sorts of problems worse than the diseases they prevent.
One can always dig up an expert that agrees with whatever bullshit you wish to peddle.
I'd bet folding money that the "expert opinion" referred to is in fact, in the report by the IFS they mention above in the article rather than any medical study examining the subject.
There are ways, but they'd be immensely unpopular with the corporate overlords, and thus, aren't an option.
God forbid they close loopholes to stop the exporting of profits to overseas entities, for example. Along with all the other ridiculous tax avoidance wheezes multinationals use to obfuscate their way out of paying their fair share, we could cover the welfare budget twice over and have change left.