#Unison had released a much sharper statement earlier this week slamming Labour’s assault on disabled people’s benefits. “Ministers must listen to disabled workers, ministers must think again,” #DisabilityBenefits #SpringStatement
socialistworker.co.uk/labour/labou...
socialistworker.co.uk/labour/labou...
Labour’s Spring Statement declares open class war
Labour's Spring Statement on Wednesday was full of attacks on the working class, the slashing of benefits all to pursue 'growth'.
socialistworker.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
#Unison had released a much sharper statement earlier this week slamming Labour’s assault on disabled people’s benefits. “Ministers must listen to disabled workers, ministers must think again,” #DisabilityBenefits #SpringStatement
socialistworker.co.uk/labour/labou...
socialistworker.co.uk/labour/labou...
Our social security system punishes those it should support. Dolly Sen with the Lived Experience Advisory Board at the @kingscsmh.bsky.social created Fit for Work Dolls to expose the cruelty and develop policy recommendations #SpringStatement
@rickburgess.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...
@rickburgess.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...
Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change
The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK
www.kcl.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Our social security system punishes those it should support. Dolly Sen with the Lived Experience Advisory Board at the @kingscsmh.bsky.social created Fit for Work Dolls to expose the cruelty and develop policy recommendations #SpringStatement
@rickburgess.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...
@rickburgess.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...
While we look at the details from the Chancellor's Spring statement, let’s make sure the Government hears us: benefit cuts are not the answer.
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly/VbekuSS #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits #Disability
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly/VbekuSS #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits #Disability
Making people poorer will do nothing but harm.
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly
March 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
While we look at the details from the Chancellor's Spring statement, let’s make sure the Government hears us: benefit cuts are not the answer.
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly/VbekuSS #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits #Disability
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly/VbekuSS #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits #Disability
As a disabled person, the #SpringStatement has left me in a precarious place. They talk about a 'moral issue.' I haven't claimed PIP for 13 YEARS, despite being told to by the DWP and my GP (and needing it) as I thought it should go to people who needed it more. But that's not the narrative is it?
March 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
As a disabled person, the #SpringStatement has left me in a precarious place. They talk about a 'moral issue.' I haven't claimed PIP for 13 YEARS, despite being told to by the DWP and my GP (and needing it) as I thought it should go to people who needed it more. But that's not the narrative is it?
Spring Statement 2025: Key points ...read more on thedirt.news #AutumnBudget #ChancellorReeves #OBR #RachelReeves #SpringStatement #HTA #UKHopsitality
thedirt.news/spring-state...
thedirt.news/spring-state...
Spring Statement 2025: Key Points
During her Spring Statement, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out the plans for the UK economy in the House of Commons.
thedirt.news
March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Spring Statement 2025: Key points ...read more on thedirt.news #AutumnBudget #ChancellorReeves #OBR #RachelReeves #SpringStatement #HTA #UKHopsitality
thedirt.news/spring-state...
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Labour has made clear whose side it is on, and that is the super rich, the arms dealers and the corporations who are raking in obscene profits. #SpringStatement
March 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Labour has made clear whose side it is on, and that is the super rich, the arms dealers and the corporations who are raking in obscene profits. #SpringStatement
FFS. What a thing for any politician to say and it shames me that it was a Labour minister who actually said it. At this moment I'm not sure why I'm in the party. #SpringStatement #DarrenJones #BenefitCuts #Reeves #Labour
Darren Jones ‘clumsy’ to compare benefits to pocket money, says Chancellor
Rachel Reeves’s deputy sparked outrage on Wednesday for making the comparison as he defended the Government’s cuts to welfare.
www.independent.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
FFS. What a thing for any politician to say and it shames me that it was a Labour minister who actually said it. At this moment I'm not sure why I'm in the party. #SpringStatement #DarrenJones #BenefitCuts #Reeves #Labour
March 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@Telegraph: Pictured: Artist Kaya Mar shows his latest work depicting ‘Miss Austerity’ Reeves ahead of the #SpringStatement https://t.co/RZUvoJTORG
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
@Telegraph: Pictured: Artist Kaya Mar shows his latest work depicting ‘Miss Austerity’ Reeves ahead of the #SpringStatement https://t.co/RZUvoJTORG
⏰ The Chancellor is due to deliver her #SpringStatement from 12:30pm.
💡 Stay tuned for our full reaction later this afternoon.
Watch it live, here 🔗 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
💡 Stay tuned for our full reaction later this afternoon.
Watch it live, here 🔗 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
March 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
⏰ The Chancellor is due to deliver her #SpringStatement from 12:30pm.
💡 Stay tuned for our full reaction later this afternoon.
Watch it live, here 🔗 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
💡 Stay tuned for our full reaction later this afternoon.
Watch it live, here 🔗 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
March 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#SpringStatement
ChXcq confirms health element of UC will be cut by 50% and frozen for.new claimants.
Says day to day GOVUK spending is protected in real terms and capital spending will increase (the devil is in the detail here).
Name checks Heathrow 3rd runway and Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
ChXcq confirms health element of UC will be cut by 50% and frozen for.new claimants.
Says day to day GOVUK spending is protected in real terms and capital spending will increase (the devil is in the detail here).
Name checks Heathrow 3rd runway and Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
for.new
March 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#SpringStatement
ChXcq confirms health element of UC will be cut by 50% and frozen for.new claimants.
Says day to day GOVUK spending is protected in real terms and capital spending will increase (the devil is in the detail here).
Name checks Heathrow 3rd runway and Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
ChXcq confirms health element of UC will be cut by 50% and frozen for.new claimants.
Says day to day GOVUK spending is protected in real terms and capital spending will increase (the devil is in the detail here).
Name checks Heathrow 3rd runway and Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
CIPD will be responding to the Chancellor's Spring Statement later today - we are particularly on the lookout for some much need investment in UK skills and training 👀
#springstatement
#springstatement
March 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
CIPD will be responding to the Chancellor's Spring Statement later today - we are particularly on the lookout for some much need investment in UK skills and training 👀
#springstatement
#springstatement
As members of Tax Justice Scotland, we fully support today’s campaign for fairer taxation—ensuring the rich pay their share.
With the UK Chancellor’s #SpringStatement looming, we oppose cuts to social security and the stigmatisation of benefit recipients.
👇🏽
With the UK Chancellor’s #SpringStatement looming, we oppose cuts to social security and the stigmatisation of benefit recipients.
👇🏽
"With 240,000 children in poverty, and public services stretched to the breaking point, the need for action is clear.
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
We need fairer tax to build a fairer country
Few people in Scotland will relish the prospect of paying tax. But imagine a country where every child grows up free from poverty. One…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
As members of Tax Justice Scotland, we fully support today’s campaign for fairer taxation—ensuring the rich pay their share.
With the UK Chancellor’s #SpringStatement looming, we oppose cuts to social security and the stigmatisation of benefit recipients.
👇🏽
With the UK Chancellor’s #SpringStatement looming, we oppose cuts to social security and the stigmatisation of benefit recipients.
👇🏽
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"UK Spring Statement 2025: Reeves cuts spending plans, growth forecast for 2025 halved" | ReutersUK
Pick the bones out of that!
What does the #SpringStatement mean for #growth, #markets, #tax increases?
How about your #InvestmentStrategy?
Capital at risk
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
Pick the bones out of that!
What does the #SpringStatement mean for #growth, #markets, #tax increases?
How about your #InvestmentStrategy?
Capital at risk
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
UK Spring Statement 2025: Reeves cuts spending plans, growth forecast for 2025 halved
Reeves said the global economy had become more uncertain and pledged to stick to her borrowing rules.
www.reuters.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"UK Spring Statement 2025: Reeves cuts spending plans, growth forecast for 2025 halved" | ReutersUK
Pick the bones out of that!
What does the #SpringStatement mean for #growth, #markets, #tax increases?
How about your #InvestmentStrategy?
Capital at risk
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
Pick the bones out of that!
What does the #SpringStatement mean for #growth, #markets, #tax increases?
How about your #InvestmentStrategy?
Capital at risk
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#RealHopeRealChange is possible Rachel Reeves
… but only if you enable it
Austerity part 2, or austerity-lite, is neither
#BeBold and make the difference, not the cuts
#SpringStatement
… but only if you enable it
Austerity part 2, or austerity-lite, is neither
#BeBold and make the difference, not the cuts
#SpringStatement
March 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#RealHopeRealChange is possible Rachel Reeves
… but only if you enable it
Austerity part 2, or austerity-lite, is neither
#BeBold and make the difference, not the cuts
#SpringStatement
… but only if you enable it
Austerity part 2, or austerity-lite, is neither
#BeBold and make the difference, not the cuts
#SpringStatement
Starmer is Gaslighting people.
It's why he gets on so well with Trump.
Don't we deserve better than this Brits?
#starmer #austerity #springstatement #ukpol #ukpolitics #abuse #gaslighting
It's why he gets on so well with Trump.
Don't we deserve better than this Brits?
#starmer #austerity #springstatement #ukpol #ukpolitics #abuse #gaslighting
March 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Starmer is Gaslighting people.
It's why he gets on so well with Trump.
Don't we deserve better than this Brits?
#starmer #austerity #springstatement #ukpol #ukpolitics #abuse #gaslighting
It's why he gets on so well with Trump.
Don't we deserve better than this Brits?
#starmer #austerity #springstatement #ukpol #ukpolitics #abuse #gaslighting
Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent on #Reeves #RachelReeves #Starmer #SpringStatement #Headroom #TrumpTariffs – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent on #Reeves #RachelReeves #Starmer #SpringStatement #Headroom #TrumpTariffs – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Today's front pages are not holding back after Reeves' #SpringStatement.
Cutting benefits for people on the lowest incomes is - unsurprisingly - *not* a popular policy.
You know what is? A closer trading relationship with the EU. Our latest polling below. ⤵️
Cutting benefits for people on the lowest incomes is - unsurprisingly - *not* a popular policy.
You know what is? A closer trading relationship with the EU. Our latest polling below. ⤵️
March 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today's front pages are not holding back after Reeves' #SpringStatement.
Cutting benefits for people on the lowest incomes is - unsurprisingly - *not* a popular policy.
You know what is? A closer trading relationship with the EU. Our latest polling below. ⤵️
Cutting benefits for people on the lowest incomes is - unsurprisingly - *not* a popular policy.
You know what is? A closer trading relationship with the EU. Our latest polling below. ⤵️
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While we look at the details from the Chancellor's Spring statement, let’s make sure the Government hears us: benefit cuts are not the answer.
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly/VbekuSS #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits #Disability
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly/VbekuSS #SpringStatement #DisabilityBenefits #Disability
Making people poorer will do nothing but harm.
Write to your MP today.
buff.ly
March 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
2 charts to show where UK politics is via @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social
#SpringStatement
1/ Key issues for the public remain the same.
- NHS 61%
- Cost of living 50%
- Immigration 44%
- Economy 38%
But majority think govt doing a bad job on
- Cost of living 61%
- immigration 55%
- economy 52%
#SpringStatement
1/ Key issues for the public remain the same.
- NHS 61%
- Cost of living 50%
- Immigration 44%
- Economy 38%
But majority think govt doing a bad job on
- Cost of living 61%
- immigration 55%
- economy 52%
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
2 charts to show where UK politics is via @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social
#SpringStatement
1/ Key issues for the public remain the same.
- NHS 61%
- Cost of living 50%
- Immigration 44%
- Economy 38%
But majority think govt doing a bad job on
- Cost of living 61%
- immigration 55%
- economy 52%
#SpringStatement
1/ Key issues for the public remain the same.
- NHS 61%
- Cost of living 50%
- Immigration 44%
- Economy 38%
But majority think govt doing a bad job on
- Cost of living 61%
- immigration 55%
- economy 52%
If gov continues on this trajectory, it is placing future generations under strain with little gain #SpringStatement
The upcoming National Youth Strategy needs to reverse a decade of cuts & unlock potential of youth work for young people
See @ukyouth.bsky.social response: ⬇️https://bit.ly/3XwuTjo
The upcoming National Youth Strategy needs to reverse a decade of cuts & unlock potential of youth work for young people
See @ukyouth.bsky.social response: ⬇️https://bit.ly/3XwuTjo
Concern at 'extremely damaging' Government cuts to support for vulnerable young people - UK Youth
UK Youth has warned the Government must support young people after a “worrying” Spring Statement. Chancellor Rachel Reeves today set out the Government’s spending priorities in her Spring Statement, ...
bit.ly
March 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If gov continues on this trajectory, it is placing future generations under strain with little gain #SpringStatement
The upcoming National Youth Strategy needs to reverse a decade of cuts & unlock potential of youth work for young people
See @ukyouth.bsky.social response: ⬇️https://bit.ly/3XwuTjo
The upcoming National Youth Strategy needs to reverse a decade of cuts & unlock potential of youth work for young people
See @ukyouth.bsky.social response: ⬇️https://bit.ly/3XwuTjo