It’s sadly never going to change. You’d need Green or Lib Dem in power with a majority of Green Lib Dem SNP in the house to push this through. Labour and Tories will simply vote it down. Or fiddle it such that the option is FPTP or an option nobody wants like they did in the last referendum.
I think theres a chance of a Labour minority needing green/lib dem support to form a government and them making voting reform their price. Labour members are in favour and a good chunk of the MPs are too.
I hear what you’re saying. I just don’t think it will happen even in that situation. Labour MPs will be whipped into scuppering it. A minority of Labour MPs can’t overturn the Labour machine that rather loves FPTP to entrench their status.
Yeah look at disability income as an example. No one thought labour would actually cut it since a majority of labour members were against cutting before the election.
But Starmer and the rest of Tory Lite made the MPs toe the line.
Nah the government made getting PIP far harder all future claimants this will lead to an estimated 1 million less PIP claims by 2030. And slashed the UC health top up for new claimants (nearly removed 2000£ / per year).
Please don‘t fucking minimise how awful this is many disabled people are already barely surviving this will absolutely lead to excess deaths. I say this as someone on Disability income myself.
Importantly, this estimate does not include any potential positive impact of the bolstered £1billion annual funding, by 2029/2030, or the additional £300million of support in this SR period that is being brought forward. These measures will support those with disabilities and long-term health conditions into employment, which we expect to mitigate the poverty impact among people it supports into work.
Oh look, only considering negative changes and not positive ones leads to seeing a negative outcome, very surprising.
It’s sadly never going to change. You’d need Green or Lib Dem in power with a majority of Green Lib Dem SNP in the house to push this through. Labour and Tories will simply vote it down. Or fiddle it such that the option is FPTP or an option nobody wants like they did in the last referendum.
I think theres a chance of a Labour minority needing green/lib dem support to form a government and them making voting reform their price. Labour members are in favour and a good chunk of the MPs are too.
I hear what you’re saying. I just don’t think it will happen even in that situation. Labour MPs will be whipped into scuppering it. A minority of Labour MPs can’t overturn the Labour machine that rather loves FPTP to entrench their status.
Yeah look at disability income as an example. No one thought labour would actually cut it since a majority of labour members were against cutting before the election.
But Starmer and the rest of Tory Lite made the MPs toe the line.
You mean the one where there was a huge Labour back-bench rebellion and the government backed down and made essesntially zero cuts?
Nah the government made getting PIP far harder all future claimants this will lead to an estimated 1 million less PIP claims by 2030. And slashed the UC health top up for new claimants (nearly removed 2000£ / per year).
Please don‘t fucking minimise how awful this is many disabled people are already barely surviving this will absolutely lead to excess deaths. I say this as someone on Disability income myself.
Official estimates by the government itself estimate this will lead to an additional 150‘000 working age people being in poverty.
Oh look, only considering negative changes and not positive ones leads to seeing a negative outcome, very surprising.