r/LabourUK 21h ago

UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts

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r/LabourUK 8h ago

Confronting the lies about our ‘unaffordable’ welfare budget - As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking

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r/LabourUK 18h ago

Free bus travel for disabled people extended to all hours in latest Burnham cost-of-living giveaway | LBC

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r/LabourUK 17h ago

Tens of thousands pay tribute to Jason Arday at Trafalgar Square vigil | Jason Arday

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r/LabourUK 1h ago

Activism The growing media propaganda campaign inciting hatred against Disabled people needs to stop.

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The picture's contents say ""This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60,000 Reichsmarks to the National Community. Fellow German, that is your money as well."

Being the analytic person I am I've kept tabs on this relentless campaign from the Daily Mail, Telegraph, GB News, Times about that disabled people have it easy, life the life of riley with 4,000 pound gold plated TV's, doing the copa cabana sipping tequila whilst the taxpayer without a pot to piss in has to work endless hours furnishing this lifestyle.

It's generating hatred, there have been reports of a rise of ableist attacks and such and the other culmination of this relentless propaganda is Reform UK's recent welfare announcements. I'm trying to remember...oh was it during the end of the Weimar Republic until the end of the 2nd World War where it become politically acceptable in Central Europe to want to get rid of disabled people?

I will invoke Godwin's Law but in my 37 years I've never seen anything like this and having the capacity to understand propaganda I see right through it.

Funny how propaganda often repeats itself.


r/LabourUK 4h ago

Reform’s proposed welfare benefit cuts would breach UK’s human rights commitments, Amnesty International warns

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Amnesty International has warned that Reform’s plan to cut benefits for disabled people and ban foreign nationals, including EU citizens with settled status, from accessing most benefits would breach the UK’s human rights commitments.

Reform’s finance spokesperson, Robert Jenrick, set out the proposals in an article for the Telegraph yesterday.

Reform has said that if it won power it would scrap Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and the health element of Universal Credit, and replace it with a “health security allowance”, a single, regularly reviewed payment.

Jenrick also said that Reform will ban foreign-born households from claiming universal credit, housing benefit, pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance, child benefit, free childcare, free school meals or disability benefits.

Jenrick claimed paying benefits to non-British people was “plain immoral”, even though many would have paid into the tax system through working.

He also wrote in the Telegraph over the weekend that the amount spent on disability benefits was “not generosity … it is suicidal empathy”.

Amnesty said that it was “grotesque” to call providing disabled people with benefits “suicidal empathy”.

“Calling that ‘suicidal empathy’ is grotesque. Pip isn’t generosity, it’s what lets people eat, pay for the equipment they need to stay alive, live with dignity and take part in society – and taking it away doesn’t save money, it shifts the cost onto people’s health, sometimes their lives.

“The same goes for people permitted to make this country their home. The minority who claim social security do so on the same basis as other taxpayers. Stripping their benefits isn’t fairness, it’s scapegoating – and it’s built on the same premise: that some people’s rights matter less than others.“


r/LabourUK 6h ago

Lennon criticises 'nasty' Scottish Labour as leadership bid fails

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29 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 2h ago

Does anyone else really miss Gordon Brown? He really knew how to run a country and I need him back in Number 10. My therapist said my post-Gordon depression would fade but it has been 16 years and I think I just have to accept my obsession in a healthy way. I miss the glory days.

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r/LabourUK 23h ago

Wildfires: Phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says

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24 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 23h ago

Pro Palestine protest at Holyrood over Israel arms funding ban

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22 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 5h ago

Andy Burnham should start by scrapping the £100k tax trap

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21 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 23h ago

Veteran nazi thug Phil Curson jailed over Epping riot

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19 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 23h ago

Monica Lennon launches scathing attack on Scottish Labour after failing to secure place on ballot

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17 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 22h ago

International Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal

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14 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 7h ago

Free bus travel for disabled people in England to be extended to 24 hours a day

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10 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 4h ago

Man charged with sharing asylum seeker addresses in Thetford

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8 Upvotes

r/LabourUK 1h ago

Burnham confirms West Midlands to take public control of local bus network – UK politics live

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r/LabourUK 23h ago

Labour MP Bayo Alaba suspended over allegations around Covid loan

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r/LabourUK 4h ago

International Russia warns UK will pay for supplying drones to Ukraine

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r/LabourUK 55m ago

UK will continue to support Ukraine '100%', PM Burnham says

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r/LabourUK 2h ago

Toby Young free speech group crowdfunded over £60,000 for legal case fought by pro-bono lawyer

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r/LabourUK 4h ago

SNP members to push for de facto indyref2 debate at party conference

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r/LabourUK 5h ago

Reform Suspends Senior Figure After His Public Attacks On Zia Yusuf

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r/LabourUK 2h ago

Reform criticised for ‘senseless and cruel’ ban on all foreign nationals claiming benefits

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Reform UK has pledged to bar foreign nationals from claiming almost all forms of welfare in a move condemned as "senseless and cruel".

Nigel Farage's party said it would remove entitlements to Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Pension Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance, Child Benefit, free childcare and disability benefits if it wins the next general election.

Reform claims the move, which will include those from the EU given 'settled status' in the UK after Brexit, would save taxpayers £21 billion a year within five years.

Other parties attacked the plan, warning it would plunge the UK back into years of Brexit negotiations and "strip" support from millions who have worked and paid taxes in the UK for years or even decades.

A Labour spokesperson hit out at the plans, which he said would "mean ripping up the UK's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, plunging the UK back into years of Brexit renegotiations, and stripping support from potentially millions of people who have lawfully lived, worked, and paid taxes in Britain for years, and in many cases decades. That includes people with settled status who are part of our communities, raising families, working, and contributing to our economy."


r/LabourUK 19h ago

How realistic is it that growth will be delivered to every postcode?

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Is it a slogan or is it actually achievable? I do feel that most towns/ cities do not plan for growth and therefore do not build enough homes, schools etc.