UK: Treasury Reportedly Planning Billions in Welfare Cuts

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1. Ah would a Tory by any other name be as vile?

   Golden Rule of Politics : never let a crisis go to waste!

   Remember 9/11 and the second Iraq war? Bush used it as an excuse to introduce a number of measures that eroded civic rights and massively increased gov surveillance. It was supposed to be temporary…

   Those measures have still never been rolled back.

   Of course a neolib Labour gov would use a war as an excuse to cut welfare, although after 15 years of austerity only an idiot would think there is much “fat” left to cut.

   Thinking that public welfare has ballooned because there are a bunch of shiftless, feckless work age grifters who are cheating the system and _stealing_ _mah_ _mohney_ _whilst_ _I_ _do_ _da_ _work,_ is frankly, fantasy.

   Even if we quadrupled the number of people scamming us with questionionable claims it would still be the equivalent of pennies in the grand scheme of things.

   I’m sorry this triggers the reactionaries among us that don’t want to accept the reality that there is no magic solution to the fact we have a lot of old people, and an economic system designed to ensure the rich get richer whilst the poor get poorer, whether they are in work or not.

   But maybe such knee-jerk tantrums are themselves part of the reason we are in the situation we are in!

2. Good

3. No one wants this, probably not even Labour themselves but we have a very real possibility of having to fight serious wars within a decade. We have to be ready and that means more money for defense

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