Calls to suicide helplines rocketed because of Labour’s benefit cuts, according to sources that seem more reputable than most of the statistics being bandied about in support of the change.

Skwawkbox quotes Dr Jay Watts as follows:

Reliable source at the highest possible level has just told me huge increase in calls to suicide helplines because of the threatened benefits cuts, specially to PIP.

— Dr Jay Watts (@Shrink_at_Large) March 11, 2025

The site states:

Calls to suicide helplines have seen a ‘huge increase’ over Labour’s war on disabled and long-term sick people, according to a leading consultant psychologist who spoke to a ‘reliable source at the highest possible level’.

Starmer and his hatchet-woman, DWP Secretary Liz Kendall, plan to take thousands – around £5,000 a year – from disability and sickness benefit claimants, pushing around half a million people into poverty, while forcing those whom doctors have found to be unfit for work to continually spend whole working weeks searching for jobs and undergo assessments to jump through hoops to qualify for support.

Driving people to suicide seems a logical aim of this Labour policy – as it was a logical aim of the Conservative government from which Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall have picked up the baton.

Using that stick to drive people with serious long-term illnesses and disabilities to suicide would achieve the government’s aim, which is to save a few grubby pennies – most probably in order to spend them on plans to shoot Russians on the pretext of defending Ukraine.

The Labour leadership is perfectly aware of the probable outcome – many thousands of deaths. The revelation about suicide helplines reinforces it.

But he’ll press ahead with his policy.

Isn’t this, then, a plan not for suicides but for mass murder?

Source: Calls to suicide helplines rocket because of Labour’s war on disabled and sick people – SKWAWKBOX

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