Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
I'd love an example of Starmer blaming immigrants for literally anything?

We have a profit generating sector that relies entirely on shipping people here on min wage to do jobs that none of us in this thread would want to do. We have a literal shit storm coming in terms of welfare spending/non-economically active adults and no real way of solving it. We have a housing crisis. Throw all these things in a pot and tell me how any serious government doesn't focus on getting net migration down and welfare spending down.
You seem to have been sucked in too

Instead of getting on with reducing migration starmer has pathetically tried to call back right wing voters who will never support him and his useless home secretary still isn't being specific on numbers of gang master rings they are breaking up

These are the things that will win back moderate voters ....fck the right wing

And his speech just alienates many long term labour voters

Of course with regard to welfare he's employing an SS trained head of DWP in Liz Kendal who does a great job of also pandering to the daily mail voting crew

You don't reduce the welfare bill sensibly by making it harder for genuine claimants....these chronic disabilities don't go away or improve ff sake just because the government makes it increasingly harder to jump through smaller and smaller hoops

There has been a huge backlash against these " reforms " and rightly so

Money should be heavily weighted into improving training opportunities in real work for those with disabilities and crackdowns on fraud in the other direction

Forcing everyone into tighter corners for individually what are meagre meagre amounts of money per person is utterly futile

The welfare bill is the welfare bill ...its always going to be here like the nhs , roads , policing

The cost to the country in terms of health , crime , social cohesion , the economy of not providing a base level is rarely discussed but it's staggering

So sensible and fair welfare and social provision ....which most of us will require at certain points in our lives is vital

This government is bullshitting , it's not doing that , it's scaremongering in order to cut to the bone

Asking someone with a chronic illness like rheumatoid arthritis to attend another assessment.....even after filling in all the relevant forms .....3 years after they did the last one ....is a complete waste of money and resources

If Labour want to cut the welfare bill they could start with that sort of nonsense .....they say that's going to happen but I trust starmer as much as I trust Ian Duncan Smith ......ie not one bit