Keir Starmer has confirmed the appointment of Liz Kendall as Minister for Work & Pensions, which should be of concern to many.
Right, so following the Tories having lost the General Election and Labour essentially inheriting the country – if you haven’t seen my video from yesterday explaining that the Tories losing 20% of their vote share over the 2019 Election whilst Keir Starmer’s bunch merely increased theirs by just 1.6% and got 640,000 fewer votes, yet still gained a landslide majority, please watch that for a more thorough explanation of what a joke our electoral system is that Starmer benefits so heavily from circumstances completely beyond his control, yet still here we are, he’s now Prime Minister and therefore has set about building his cabinet and I know many creators are going to have gone through a who’s who of the next government and I have no doubt I will revisit many of them, rancid as they are, as they prove that with the policy decisions to come. But given the lack of disabled representation in government, given as a demographic what a target the long term sick and disabled were under 14 years of the Tories, and my own background as one of thousands of unpaid carers up and down the country, who have given up everything effectively to care for sick and disabled family, I think such families affected by such matters deserve a heads up about who Starmer has just put in charge of the DWP, because I’m afraid you might not want to get your hopes up much, now that Liz Kendall is in charge there.
Right, so that was footage of Liz Kendall there, the new Secretary of State for Work & Pensions complaining to an audience hosted by the think tank Demos, that under the Tories we were basically spending more on benefits than on defence, which implies the expense of one is to blame for the lack of spending on the other, that is how many people will read that, this is how her words matter, and the fact she is the minister for work and pensions shows that the very largest part of her budget, pensions, would be the largest part of that expenditure, but she doesn’t mention pensioners of course, it’s the dogwhistle language of blaming those she believes should be working, though clearly can’t. Many of we in families affected know full well the impact Tory cruelty has had on us, it has been a matter of survival and not exactly survival of the fittest is it? It’s more luck of the draw as to who manages to get a successful Personal Independence Claim or not, who manages to get the Universal Credit premiums, or Employment and Support Allowance if still on the old system, though what exactly Labour would do now isn’t actually very clear. In their 136 page manifesto for example, the word benefits only ever applies to economic benefits. Social Security is mentioned once in relation to cracking down on fraud and Universal Credit is mentioned once, to be reviewed, rather than scrapped as unworkable and mentioned in terms of making work pay and reducing dependence on benefits, whilst in the same section discussing child poverty hitting 70,000, yet this is a party that repeatedly refuses to end the two child benefit cap.

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