Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 5:53 pm Having different arrangement for new claimants isn't unknown in the benefits system, but it's a bit different when the amounts are so large like with PIP. Concessions are £3bn so far, will probably be more. One thing they could do is drop the plan to uprate jobseekers by 1% more than inflation. It's a good idea, but one reason it's not been done before is that there isn't much money about. That would free a bit more up for other concessions without raising the overall cost.I see the SNP have already gone with two-tier Kier.
A striking point made by the Minister, Stephen Timms, was that working age social security is about where it was in 2008 in real terms. That all sounds fine, but the health benefits are hugely up. It's only at the same level because child tax credits, unemployment benefit and other things have been really cut. And this is now, let alone with all the projected increases in claimants. I accept that the Government is probably dead if the projections actually happen. But what you don't do is what the government just tried to do. You take your time with limited changes, which is what they did in government before.
I think a Putin Tax (even breaking the pre-election promises) to pay for the extra Defence spending may be viable though.
Nearly 50 years on, and the establishment still has no idea how to deal with punk.
The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 8:47 pm Ah, the playful scamps and their love of violence.Those poetic peaceniks and their love of violence? I think that you might have the wrong end of the stick, as per usual.
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