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UK govt has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves.
Not addressed Tory legacy.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC
Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax
Not addressed Tory legacy.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC
Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax
UK government has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves
Chancellor responds to calls for wealth tax on millionaire households
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
UK govt has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves.
Not addressed Tory legacy.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC
Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax
Not addressed Tory legacy.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC
Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax
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The UK government will be forced to raise taxes at the Budget in October – but taxes on who? Here are my predictions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...
Why your government is about to raise YOUR taxes
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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August 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The UK government will be forced to raise taxes at the Budget in October – but taxes on who? Here are my predictions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...
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Important stuff from @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social.
A windfall tax on banks could raise £11 billion - money that could be invested in our public services and a proper social security system. Money that could help lift children out of poverty.
#TaxTheBanks
A windfall tax on banks could raise £11 billion - money that could be invested in our public services and a proper social security system. Money that could help lift children out of poverty.
#TaxTheBanks
⚡BREAKING ⚡
A windfall tax on banks on banks could raise more than *£11 billion*
That's enough to cover the cost of the welfare u-turn AND scrapping the two-child benefit cap
Catch us in The Mirror today 👇 and add your name 👉bit.ly/taxthebanks
www.mirror.co.uk/mon...
A windfall tax on banks on banks could raise more than *£11 billion*
That's enough to cover the cost of the welfare u-turn AND scrapping the two-child benefit cap
Catch us in The Mirror today 👇 and add your name 👉bit.ly/taxthebanks
www.mirror.co.uk/mon...
July 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Important stuff from @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social.
A windfall tax on banks could raise £11 billion - money that could be invested in our public services and a proper social security system. Money that could help lift children out of poverty.
#TaxTheBanks
A windfall tax on banks could raise £11 billion - money that could be invested in our public services and a proper social security system. Money that could help lift children out of poverty.
#TaxTheBanks
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This is a message to Keir Starmer.
Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.
We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.
Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS
Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.
We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.
Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS
July 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This is a message to Keir Starmer.
Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.
We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.
Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS
Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.
We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.
Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS
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Don't let anyone tell you that there's no money, we are a £2.5 trillion economy.
The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500 billion, half of Britain's wealth. Taxing the richest 1% in one year would give us £25 billion.
What is wrong with that choice? #WealthTax
The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500 billion, half of Britain's wealth. Taxing the richest 1% in one year would give us £25 billion.
What is wrong with that choice? #WealthTax
July 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Don't let anyone tell you that there's no money, we are a £2.5 trillion economy.
The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500 billion, half of Britain's wealth. Taxing the richest 1% in one year would give us £25 billion.
What is wrong with that choice? #WealthTax
The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500 billion, half of Britain's wealth. Taxing the richest 1% in one year would give us £25 billion.
What is wrong with that choice? #WealthTax
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Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives.
#BinUCBill #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-i...
#BinUCBill #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-i...
Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, and UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill
Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill wi…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives.
#BinUCBill #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-i...
#BinUCBill #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-i...
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A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ign...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ign...
Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill
A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credi…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ign...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ign...
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'This Government impoverishes the sick and the elderly to satisfy spreadsheets... Disability organisations from DPAC to Disability Rights UK are united in their opposition to Clause 2'
🗣️ @zarahsultana.bsky.social standing up for Disabled people today in the chamber
🗣️ @zarahsultana.bsky.social standing up for Disabled people today in the chamber
July 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
'This Government impoverishes the sick and the elderly to satisfy spreadsheets... Disability organisations from DPAC to Disability Rights UK are united in their opposition to Clause 2'
🗣️ @zarahsultana.bsky.social standing up for Disabled people today in the chamber
🗣️ @zarahsultana.bsky.social standing up for Disabled people today in the chamber
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Every Disabled organisation is against this bill. Slashing the Universal Credit health element in half, pushing more Disabled people is unconscionable - especially when the Government could easily tax the rich.
❌MPs must vote against the bill today!
#BinUCBill
❌MPs must vote against the bill today!
#BinUCBill
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Every Disabled organisation is against this bill. Slashing the Universal Credit health element in half, pushing more Disabled people is unconscionable - especially when the Government could easily tax the rich.
❌MPs must vote against the bill today!
#BinUCBill
❌MPs must vote against the bill today!
#BinUCBill
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We are right outside Parliament, alongside WinVisible and other Disabled campaigners, having our voices heard as the debate goes on in the chamber.
Who opposes this bill?
➡️Disabled people
➡️The general public
➡️The United Nations
It's time to #BinUCBill
Who opposes this bill?
➡️Disabled people
➡️The general public
➡️The United Nations
It's time to #BinUCBill
July 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We are right outside Parliament, alongside WinVisible and other Disabled campaigners, having our voices heard as the debate goes on in the chamber.
Who opposes this bill?
➡️Disabled people
➡️The general public
➡️The United Nations
It's time to #BinUCBill
Who opposes this bill?
➡️Disabled people
➡️The general public
➡️The United Nations
It's time to #BinUCBill
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🚨UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's benefits bill:: 'It should shame the government'
A rare intervention by the UN as the watered-down UC Bill is voted on today for the final time #BinUCBill
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
A rare intervention by the UN as the watered-down UC Bill is voted on today for the final time #BinUCBill
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's 'shameful' benefits bill
The UN's letter comes as the government's welfare bill reaches its third reading in parliament and will be subject to another vote.
www.bigissue.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's benefits bill:: 'It should shame the government'
A rare intervention by the UN as the watered-down UC Bill is voted on today for the final time #BinUCBill
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
A rare intervention by the UN as the watered-down UC Bill is voted on today for the final time #BinUCBill
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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“If cuts go through on this scale, people will lose their lives. They will suffer immense harm. So let’s all understand that.”
Labour MP John McDonnell explains why he will vote against any cuts to disability benefits during today’s welfare bill reading.👇
Labour MP John McDonnell explains why he will vote against any cuts to disability benefits during today’s welfare bill reading.👇
July 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“If cuts go through on this scale, people will lose their lives. They will suffer immense harm. So let’s all understand that.”
Labour MP John McDonnell explains why he will vote against any cuts to disability benefits during today’s welfare bill reading.👇
Labour MP John McDonnell explains why he will vote against any cuts to disability benefits during today’s welfare bill reading.👇
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MPs and much of the media have spun a false narrative about tonight’s Universal Credit vote. The PIP pause has created the myth the government has fully u-turned on its disability cuts. But £2 billion is about to be pulled from the sickest and poorest people in the country.
July 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
MPs and much of the media have spun a false narrative about tonight’s Universal Credit vote. The PIP pause has created the myth the government has fully u-turned on its disability cuts. But £2 billion is about to be pulled from the sickest and poorest people in the country.
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#WelfareNotWarfare
Great article in Novara media by @rickburgess.bsky.social
Link to article here
novaramedia.com/2025/07/01/t...
Great article in Novara media by @rickburgess.bsky.social
Link to article here
novaramedia.com/2025/07/01/t...
The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves | Novara Media
Despite concessions, the welfare bill still means cuts and greater state intrusion into disabled people’s lives, writes the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People’s Rick Burgess.
novaramedia.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
#WelfareNotWarfare
Great article in Novara media by @rickburgess.bsky.social
Link to article here
novaramedia.com/2025/07/01/t...
Great article in Novara media by @rickburgess.bsky.social
Link to article here
novaramedia.com/2025/07/01/t...
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#BinUCBill
📢London Action
📢Bin Universal Credit Bill - Protect Future Claimants
📢Wednesday 9th July 2025
📢4pm
📢Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3JY
📢London Action
📢Bin Universal Credit Bill - Protect Future Claimants
📢Wednesday 9th July 2025
📢4pm
📢Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3JY
July 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
#BinUCBill
📢London Action
📢Bin Universal Credit Bill - Protect Future Claimants
📢Wednesday 9th July 2025
📢4pm
📢Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3JY
📢London Action
📢Bin Universal Credit Bill - Protect Future Claimants
📢Wednesday 9th July 2025
📢4pm
📢Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3JY
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After govt's 11th hour 59th minute climbdown over PIP it's time for Reeves to go back to the drawing board and look for fairer and more sensible ways to raise money - like a wealth tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires to raise up to £24bn a year
July 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
After govt's 11th hour 59th minute climbdown over PIP it's time for Reeves to go back to the drawing board and look for fairer and more sensible ways to raise money - like a wealth tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires to raise up to £24bn a year
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There are still big cuts to UC health support which need addressing.
And the process to get here was incredibly badly thought out and damaging.
But the DWP's genuine reforms survived, whilst HMT's biggest cuts were defeated.
That's the right outcome.
3/3
And the process to get here was incredibly badly thought out and damaging.
But the DWP's genuine reforms survived, whilst HMT's biggest cuts were defeated.
That's the right outcome.
3/3
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
There are still big cuts to UC health support which need addressing.
And the process to get here was incredibly badly thought out and damaging.
But the DWP's genuine reforms survived, whilst HMT's biggest cuts were defeated.
That's the right outcome.
3/3
And the process to get here was incredibly badly thought out and damaging.
But the DWP's genuine reforms survived, whilst HMT's biggest cuts were defeated.
That's the right outcome.
3/3
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The true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable.
Aside from the economic and procedural arguments (of which there are many) it just isn’t morally right to push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.
The cuts must be scrapped.
📺My speech👇
fb.watch/AzJX0N1Mp5/
Aside from the economic and procedural arguments (of which there are many) it just isn’t morally right to push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.
The cuts must be scrapped.
📺My speech👇
fb.watch/AzJX0N1Mp5/
July 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable.
Aside from the economic and procedural arguments (of which there are many) it just isn’t morally right to push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.
The cuts must be scrapped.
📺My speech👇
fb.watch/AzJX0N1Mp5/
Aside from the economic and procedural arguments (of which there are many) it just isn’t morally right to push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.
The cuts must be scrapped.
📺My speech👇
fb.watch/AzJX0N1Mp5/
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Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
July 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
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♿ We gave evidence to the APPG on Poverty and Inequality for their report on the disproportionate impact of poverty on Disabled people.
We highlighted the risk to Disabled people’s rights including the right to work and the right to social security.
appgpovertyinequalit...
We highlighted the risk to Disabled people’s rights including the right to work and the right to social security.
appgpovertyinequalit...
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
♿ We gave evidence to the APPG on Poverty and Inequality for their report on the disproportionate impact of poverty on Disabled people.
We highlighted the risk to Disabled people’s rights including the right to work and the right to social security.
appgpovertyinequalit...
We highlighted the risk to Disabled people’s rights including the right to work and the right to social security.
appgpovertyinequalit...
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Why don't we support the Government's concessions on benefit cuts? Because:
Benefits are already so low that 27% of UK working-age Disabled people live in poverty.
Future claimants will face the same high costs as we do.
Tell your MP to vote against the bill in full:
buff.ly/IIXwKuO
Benefits are already so low that 27% of UK working-age Disabled people live in poverty.
Future claimants will face the same high costs as we do.
Tell your MP to vote against the bill in full:
buff.ly/IIXwKuO
June 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why don't we support the Government's concessions on benefit cuts? Because:
Benefits are already so low that 27% of UK working-age Disabled people live in poverty.
Future claimants will face the same high costs as we do.
Tell your MP to vote against the bill in full:
buff.ly/IIXwKuO
Benefits are already so low that 27% of UK working-age Disabled people live in poverty.
Future claimants will face the same high costs as we do.
Tell your MP to vote against the bill in full:
buff.ly/IIXwKuO
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"MPs must not condemn future disabled people to the poverty and indignity these devastating planned cuts will cause.”
Full comment from our CEO Tracey Lazard on the government's latest concessions on welfare cuts 👇
Full comment from our CEO Tracey Lazard on the government's latest concessions on welfare cuts 👇
‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners
Government concessions fail to appease disabled people’s groups, concerned that disabled people in the future will be condemned to poverty
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June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"MPs must not condemn future disabled people to the poverty and indignity these devastating planned cuts will cause.”
Full comment from our CEO Tracey Lazard on the government's latest concessions on welfare cuts 👇
Full comment from our CEO Tracey Lazard on the government's latest concessions on welfare cuts 👇