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If Labour get in at the next election, don't expect them to be any better, or more compassionate.
It was Labour that introduced the WCA (work capability assessment) and outsourced the administration of it to a private company, leading to widespread misery and stress. Then the Tories got in and made it even worse.
I've heard nothing encouraging from the likes of Starmer to suggest they'll be any better than the current bunch of sadists and psychopaths.
A life on low income is not a fun life. People barely survive and if anything breaks down or needs replacing they are pretty much fucked or pray to local loan sharks and a long life in debt or bankruptcy / debt relief order.
The labour party are currently making very wide general statements that could be interpreted in many ways but it's clear that there is no money to suddenly increase spending on the welfare state so I agree with @BluesLover that even a change of Gov will not see much of an improvement. One can hope they might not make it any worse.
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Im 56 years old, and have never been disillusioned or angry with any Government than this one.
Hidden, shamless, immoral, arrogant, superficial, unaware, self centred, self righteous, zero intergrity.
Political views aside, I do not know how any reasonably intelligent person could vote them back in.
To each one of us: use your vote, whoever you vote for, use your vote.
The charity I used to work (supporting people with barriers into employment) for had a basic ethos that everyone has something to offer an employer.
That said, there are people I'd rather were sitting at home on benefits than screwing up everything they touch at work.
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Benefits should be for the few - those who have a 100% need for them.
As an injured veteran, and one who has worked through so many injuries and set-backs, I find it obscene that people game the system.
There are plenty who can get a job but prefer a life on benefits.
If you distilled all the claimants down to those in genuine need then we could have a fair system.
The problem is that social media, bad diets, and propaganda have convinced many that they have a 'mental illness'.
Change you diet, do some exercise, stop watching pointless media and get a job.
Work sets you free.
Leave benefits for those with a true need.
It will get worse under Labor. They will create millions of victims and medicate them to the eyeballs. Gross.
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That last paragraph is quite a leap. Care to back that up with some reasoning?
If so, if there is a problem with benefits it's that the state is subsidising below-living-wage jobs; moving money from tax payers to corporations.
2: Nobody wants a mental illness. Generally speaking people deny they have a mental illness to their own detriment and those around them and it takes a long time to get people to accept they need help of any kind.
3: Quoting the words on a gate of the most infamous concentration / extermination camp in history is a very bad look and ruins your credibility in this thread, and in fact ruins your credibility in everything.
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Seriously though, I would like to see a proper trial of universal income in some areas to see if the benefits outweigh the initial costs
My son is T-total, stays away from most social Media (due to past bullying on social media), is on a strict diet to support his sport (Calisthenics). Yet due to his Mental health issues (he is on the spectrum with ADHD, ODD, PDA), he is unlikely to hold a job down. He is dropping out of uni at the end of the year, because he can't deal with the stress and anxiety.
In fact just trying to apply for benefits puts him in such anxiety he cannot function.
Maybe it's the other way round people have Mental Illness, but propaganda reinforces it and gives you the wrong information, rather than having a well funded system that can actually help you.
Can I also ask why you have the words mental illness in inverted commas? Are you suggesting 'it's not a thing'?
It doesn't exist?
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."