Who benefits?
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves insist they will not back down from their planned welfare reforms.
Faced with a massive rebellion from Labour MPs, and mutinous junior ministers, they must stay true to their word.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves insist they will not back down from their planned welfare reforms[/caption]
The irony amid all the hand-wringing on the Labour benches is that the welfare changes are already inadequate.
In total, they save just £5billion.
The truth is the Labour rebels have no clue how to tackle the giant welfare bill draining our economy.
And they’re even less interested in the rank unfairness of hard-working families paying for others to do nothing.
Virtue-signalling Left-wing MPs and London Mayor Sadiq Khan are all too happy to scaremonger about genuinely disabled people facing cuts.
But they never mention that 44 per cent of sickness benefit claimants now cite mental health problems.
Where’s the plan to support these people back into work?
Welfare spending has spiralled in the years since Covid.
Our broken system has also condemned millions to the scrapheap.
That is both economically and morally ruinous.
It is extraordinary that the PM’s authority is being so sorely tested after less than a year in power, and with such a massive Commons majority.
Any Government U-turn would be embarrassing for Sir Keir.
For taxpayers, it would be a tragedy.
Broken society
IT’S easy to blame social media for sowing division in the UK.
But our public institutions bear some of the blame, too.
Their relentless pursuit of a woke agenda has fostered a deep mistrust of those in authority.
The mishandling of the Southport riots — along with the grooming gangs cover-up — have been deeply corrosive.
So Sir Sajid Javid’s new taskforce to bolster social cohesion is welcome.
The ex-Home Secretary says the risk of society breaking down is a direct threat to democracy.
Concerns about issues such as “two-tier justice” will only be addressed once our leaders stop writing off ordinary people as racist — and treat everyone equally.
Facecrooks
FACEBOOK has rightly shut down groups selling dodgy Deliveroo and Just Eat accounts to migrants living in taxpayer-funded asylum hotels.
It’s a first important step in response to The Sun’s probe into black-market Britain.
Next, the public needs to see the Home Office and border officials taking firm action to end this unfair racket.
