On BBC Question Time, an audience member had a powerful message for the Labour Party government as it prioritises attacking the people most in need of help. That it, it is planning the severest cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits for chronically ill and disabled people in decades.
The DWP: exposed on Question Time
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is aggressively seeking DWP welfare cuts of around £5bn, despite such a plan not appearing in its 2024 election manifesto. This is also despite the party being very quiet and shy about getting £5bn by “cracking down on tax avoidance and non-dom loopholes”, a pledge that was in its manifesto.
As the lady on Question Time rightly asked over the DWP controversy:
Why don’t we start taxing more the rich – the wealthy people that can afford it? You’re taking money from people that just don’t have anything.
She also pointed out that:
Previous benefit cuts for disability have been linked to over 500 deaths, some of this suicide, people starving.
And she stressed regarding the DWP:
You’ve got to look at who is being affected – the most vulnerable people… I was a Labour voter. I’m not gonna be any more. Because it seems that you’re actually betraying the people that are voting for you – the ordinary people that need your help.
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— Eddie Burfi (@EddieBurfi) March 20, 2025
Starmer’s Labour: a party for the powerful, not the people
Labour is attacking disabled people (along with children and pensioners) via the DWP instead of making their rich donors/owners contribute their share to society.
Although it estimated in its manifesto that it could get £5.2bn in “revenue from closing further non-dom tax loopholes and investment in reducing tax avoidance”, it clearly prefers to prioritise attacking the people in society who need the most support instead.
In fact, the Labour government has actually blocked UN efforts to crack down on global tax havens since coming to power – which sounds even worse when you realise “the UK and its overseas territories are responsible for approximately one-third of global tax avoidance through firms moving their profits offshore”.
The audience member above talking about the DWP was spot on. Because Starmer’s Labour absolutely isn’t a party that seeks to serve the majority of the population. It is in bed with people who profit from death and destruction – of people and the planet. It has not just betrayed Britain – it has betrayed humanity.
A mass left-wing movement to challenge the rich and support ordinary people is already in the making. And it’s not just the woman on Question Time who is sick of Labour and the DWP’s elitist shitshow and calling out for change. Because people around the country are desperate for a bit of humanity and integrity, which is almost completely absent from British politics today.
Featured image via the Canary
