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18 Mar 2025, 10:22 am

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announces changes to the welfare system aimed at saving £5bn by the end of 2030

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0jqjl9vg47t


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18 Mar 2025, 3:27 pm

Business as usual then.

I fear for the future. Labour needs to remember that people didn't vote for them. They voted against Tories. If Labour insist on behaving like Tories in all but name, it'll just drive people towards Reform.


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18 Mar 2025, 4:06 pm

I still trust Labour more on welfare than the tories or reform though.


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19 Mar 2025, 11:46 am

Britain needs to rejoin the EU in my opinion. And join the Euro as well. Brexit has been an economic disaster.

It's screwed the economy and immigration is higher than ever.


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20 Mar 2025, 12:37 pm

I agree, but rejoinjng is a pipe dream. No one wants to re-open that can of worms, even if the economic argument for it is already clear. Even if Europe would actually take us back, which they won't until there's cross-party support for rejoining and well... good luck with that.

I don't think the UK would ever join the Euro though.


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