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  • PIP was created by the Tories in 2010 entirely as an austrrity attempt to decimate DLA by removing working age claimants. And making it harder to claim.

    It also resulted in 10 years of Tories losing court cases were a huge % of us claiming we’re forced to take DWP to court over refusals. And won.

    The Tories literally gave the task to private companies and financially advantaged them to reject claimants. Resulting in out right lies on huge numbers of investigation being submitted to DWP. While leading directly to 100s of disabled people commuting suicide. And the DWP hiding the reports proving this for a decade.

    Labour is just trying a new method of what the Tories failed.

    Heck they are even openly comparing to the highest tory rejection years Vs years were we won court cases years later. As the main dates for their claims the numbers have gone up.

    Did you some how fail to read any news over the last 15 years?




  • As much as I hate to give any Tory the benefit of doubt on anything.

    His main argument.

    “Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was available at the time that would have saved more lives,”

    Dose sound like a reasonable question to ask.

    This was before the availability of fast testing. And before any nightingale hospitals had been build.

    Hospitals were overloaded staff wise. Even with all non urgent care stopped.

    Their was a well documented lack of PPE. So hardly possible for the gov to do more to help care homes keep residents more separated.

    At the time. Their really dose seems like very little else he could have done.

    BUT:

    The NHS did have plans and resources for pandemics. plans the Tory party removed support for during austerity.

    Not to mention the risk of a pandemic has been a well known one since the mid 1990s. Yet still the Tories considered shutting down the minimal support the NHS had. As a tax saving measure. (Because allowing the Tories to keep low corp and capital gains taxes was the real reason).

    Yes the report and HandsonCock never considered this as a cause.






  • 9 years now post ref. Of UK govs and media arguments.

    “The UK should not follow any forign rules”

    Hardly surprising the one thing that requires some agreement on unified rules. Every trade agreement ever signed.

    Is not something anyone trust the UK on.

    It stuns me the % of Brits who seem to fail to understand. Ensuring simplification of products meeting each others rules is the main point of any trade agreement. Taxes and fees. Really represents very little challenge compared to that.

    And all the EU trade issues the UK has faced since Brexit. Relate to the cost and complexity Brits and their customers face proving products are made to the very rules, Brexit twonks keep complaining about and wanting to remove.



  • people in the higher tax brackets

    Translation: wage slaves.

    Anyone in a income tax bracket is not the people the left is talking about. That is the effect of billionaires owned media distorting the conversation. And as a slave to that media High wage earners fall for it and distort the conversation every time.

    Over the last 40 years. Post 79. The wealthy have taken a much larger % of GDP growth while paying much less often 0 tax.

    They do this in many ways. But most often by running all their income through multiple corporations. Then taking money out as personal debt. Look at how musk funded his corporate purchases. They use the asset value of big corps. Tho gain such low interest. It is way lower then any tax bracket.

    The media then argues fixing this prevents mum and pop businesses competing. While those very businesses are disappearing into debt scams like this. Purchasing the competition. Then pulling huge dept income from it before selling off all assets.



  • This is just insane. Since the Windrush. The NHS has had a high dependency on immigration. Mainly due to our own lower pay of staff. Many qualified British medical staff can get higher paying work elsewhere. Both foreign and non NHS UK jobs. This is why multiple governments from both parties haver always offered NHS training and employment as a way to encourage immigration from lower paying nations.

    If the gov does not have the funding (wish to raise taxes). To pay NHS staff and UK care staff a wage that competes with higher paying jobs in the UK or aboard. This will directly lead to a collapse of the NHS. With ) benifit to the UK.

    Except Maybe gaining privatisation of the NHS. Exactly like the Tories have been trying for decades.



  • Wrong timeline.

    Train has been replaced with other transport. Including high use of helicopters. Over the last several years. But more so since ERII death.

    So now it is just a cost sink to store and maintain.

    That said. If we ignore shutting the family down. (Honestly we are just now starting to see a majority support for that.) So any effort to do so in the past. Would have failed or been undemocratic. But most of us older folks expected more support for removal post ERII death then we actually see now.

    So accepting the job/roll existed.

    There are not many ways to safely transport such figures around efficiently. Even if trains were still used. The last mile issue is expanded hugely for public figures. Both due to the huge increase in urban traffic. And lack of smaller stations post Beaching.

    That said. I sorta like the image of Charles III strapped to multiple drones. Paradise PD Like.