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If this is a "PAY RISE" then I would like to know what OTHER "Jobs" have:
24/7/365 hours as STANDARD for 52 weeks annually; ZERO time off; Home Imprisonment; Acceptably Constant & UNREENTING Torture... AND you're never EVER EVER ALLOWED TO QUIT.

Well. Unless you die.

Maybe.
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thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · No, disabled people did NOT just get a pay rise todayApparently, disabled people all got (to quote the Sun) a "pay rise" today. Of course they didn't - the benefits increase was actually a cut

This isn't being patronisingly out of touch, it's active unpleasantness: Treasury Minister acknowledges that saying disability benefits are "pocket money" is wrong and apologises, Chancellor agrees that it is wrong then runs with the analogy, both assume that there are "Saturday jobs" aplenty everywhere and that the people whose benefits are being slashed have access to those jobs, can do them and are likely to be recruited for them.

I'm beginning to wonder if MPs should be made to spend every parliamentary recess on Universal Credit with no other recourse to funds and subject to the regulation and service delivery they impose on us common bogs.

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#DisabilityBenefits

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkngr

BBC NewsMinister Darren Jones sorry for comparing benefits to pocket moneyDarren Jones apologises for the "tactless" comments after critics branded them "offensive" and "patronising".

"If you have previously announced that you will only make major fiscal decisions once a year, there is no reason at all to think the bond market will react to the OBR forecast in a more significant way than any other piece of public finance news. Nor does cruelty earn you market credibility.

"The less charitable answer as to why she didn’t take the adult response of deferring decisions until October is that the Chancellor found it politically convenient to suggest she had been forced to cut disability benefits in order to retain fiscal credibility"

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mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/

mainlymacro.blogspot.comWhy can’t we do fiscal policy in a grown up way?  I suspect to most people what Rachel Reeves announced yesterday went like this. The OBR published a forecast, something it has to do twic...