Here’s another perspective on Rachel Reeves’ war on disabled people – and wealthy tax dodgers.

It’s by Another Angry Voice, one of the highest-quality political commentary sites on the web:

Reeves’ declaration of economic war against disabled people won approving headlines from far-right propaganda outlets like GBNews, The S*n, and the Daily Mail, but it’s left decent people wondering why Reeves is smashing Britain’s disabled people with an iron fist while she treats tax-dodging non-doms with kid gloves.

When confronted about the contrast between her concessions to mega-rich non-doms and her penalisation of disabled people, Reeves parroted a load of Tory-style propaganda about how “most working people” don’t want to pay tax to subsidise people who are “not entitled to support”. However this “disability scrounger” narrative is deeply deceptive given her stated desire to slash disability benefits for people who are entitled to them alongside new plans to spy on people’s bank accounts and confiscate drivers’ licences.

Mahatma Gandhi said that “a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members”, and Reeves is determined to demonstrate Britain’s moral inadequacy by continuing the depraved Tory agenda of targeting the most frail and vulnerable in society, whilst pandering to the mega-rich.

That’s the emotional argument. But here comes the practical argument – that should trump anything Reeves has to say:

It’s economically illiterate to slash subsistence benefits, because people who are so poor that they’re entitled to disability benefits end up immediately spending everything they receive back into the economy anyway.

Impoverishing disabled people by a further £8 billion simply removes that £8 billion from economic circulation, while policies like relaxing rules on non-doms and refusing to clamp down on fake foreign ownership of British property and British-based businesses help the mega-rich to dodge taxes and siphon even more wealth out of the UK economy.

If Reeves really wanted to save public money she’d concentrate on making sure corporations and the mega-rich pay their taxes; deal with Britain’s debilitating infestation of greedy privatisation profiteers; and eliminate public handouts to businesses that use networks of offshore companies to siphon their profits out of the country.

Source: Rachel Reeves’ war on disabled people

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