#welfare-reform

#welfare-reform

In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached "good news" to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression.

"We don't want to erase it, we don't want to abolish it," Merz said. "But we want to preserve the most important aspects of it, and that means we need to reform it."

In Britain and France, nationalist populist parties consistently lead in the polls, indicating a significant shift towards authoritarian and xenophobic political forces among voters.

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer alongside fellow MPs Rachael Maskell, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff, and Neil Duncan-Jordan due to opposing welfare reforms affecting disabled people. Abbott's repeated comments deemed racist have led the Campaign Against Antisemitism to demand her expulsion from the Party, emphasizing that her views on antisemitism and race relations are damaging. They are also submitting a complaint regarding misleading BBC reporting on her letter.

A former new-age traveller who made his money in green energy and has donated to Just Stop Oil, he is part of the Patriotic Millionaires organisation who think it is high time people like them are asked to increase their contributions.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing pressure as her position has not been guaranteed by the Prime Minister, highlighting uncertainty about future tax policies and Budget plans.

A thousand people a day go on to Pip (personal independence payment) - that's a city the size of, for example, Leicester - year after year after year.