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How Hunt’s Budget can affect you – according to someone you can trust

We’re learning that much of what Jeremy Hunt said in his Budget statement is not true – so it’s good to have a comment on it from someone we know we can trust: Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis.

Here he is:

The most important aspect of this is that employees earning between £12,500-£26,000 are likely to be slightly worse-off because of frozen tax thresholds; if you earn that much, you’ll pay more tax.

Also good is the Child Benefit threshold change, which Mr Lewis discusses in depth as he was instrumental in bringing it about.

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And debt relief orders: the charge of £90 is being abolished, meaning people who wanted to deal with their debts but couldn’t find the money to do it will now be able to. That’s a Citizens Advice campaign that has been heard.

So there it is. You can refer to the video clip for other details. The rest of Hunt’s speech – as far as you’re concerned – was noise.


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Health inequalities ‘caused a million early deaths in England in last decade’

Flowers for the dead: this was for victims of the DWP-led cull of sick and disabled people – just a fraction of the million who died between 2011 and 2019.

The National Health Service – and the government – are supposed to ensure that everybody gets the same level of health care, everywhere in the UK, right?

Explain this:

More than 1 million people in England died prematurely in the decade after 2011 owing to a combination of poverty, austerity and Covid, according to “shocking” research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts.

The figures are revealed in a study by the Institute of Health Equity at University College London led by Sir Michael Marmot. They demonstrate the extent to which stark economic and social inequalities are leading to poorer people dying early from cancer, heart problems and other diseases.

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Using Office for National Statistics figures, the report’s author, Prof Peter Goldblatt, looked at the life expectancy of people across England who do not live in the wealthiest 10% of areas.

The report, titled Health Inequalities, Lives Cut Short, found that between 2011 and 2019, 1,062,334 people died earlier than they would have done if they lived in areas where the richest 10% of the population reside. A further 151,615 premature deaths were recorded in 2020, although this number was higher than expected because of the coronavirus pandemic.

This next part is particularly disturbing:

Of these deaths, Goldblatt directly attributed 148,000 to austerity measures implemented by the coalition government from 2010 by comparing them with levels seen earlier.

In other words, the Coalition Conservative/Liberal Democrat government of 2010-15 is directly responsible for the deaths of 148,000 people.

When are the arrests going to happen? When will the prosecutions and imprisonments take place?

Yeah, that’s right – they won’t.

And the reason they won’t is that the current UK government is the most corrupt in the history of the nation.

Source: Health inequalities ‘caused 1m early deaths in England in last decade’ | Inequality | The Guardian


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Rishi Sunak shows his true colours – scraps ‘Minister for Disabled People’

[Image: Black Triangle Campaign].

The leader of the Tory government has decided that there is no more need for a minister looking after the interests of people who are disabled.

Rishi Sunak’s decision flies in the face of what is needed; disabled people are in more danger now than they have ever been.

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But here it is:

“Retrograde” is right. Here’s what they’re saying:

[Scope] director of strategy, James Taylor, who described the move as appalling and retrograde, added: “What kind of message does this give to Britain’s 16 million disabled people? That in the middle of a cost of living crisis we are now less important?”

Mims Davies has been appointed minister for disabled people, but she remains a parliamentary undersecretary of state rather than becoming a minister of state, which Labour described as a “downgrade” of the post.

Vicky Foxcroft, the Labour MP and shadow minister for disabled people, said it was “outrageous it took the government so long to finally agree to appoint a minister for disabled people”.

She said: “When they finally do, they have demoted the role to parliamentary undersecretary of state and the role was previously minister of state. Disabled people deserve better than this.”

And here’s what the rest of us are saying:

A general election is coming. It might be next May, it might be next December. Or January the following year. But it is on its way.

16 million disabled people might change the fortunes of every political party taking part in that election.

All they need is the will to do it – and this might give it to them.


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Police more likely to Taser black people due to institutional racism | The Guardian

Police: black people were eight times more likely to be Tasered by them, and now only 4.2 times more likely. So what? It’s still institutional racism.

This is bad news for anyone who thought the police were going to reform after the Met was found to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic:

Police are far more likely to use a Taser electrical weapon against black people due to structural and institutional racism rather than the views of individual officers, a new report says.

The report says: “Our study suggests it may be a combination of societal issues and institutional policing priorities, policies and practices which are systematically and disproportionately affecting black and other ethnic minority communities in deprived neighbourhoods relative to the populations of more wealthy surrounding, predominantly white areas.

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“In other words, our study supports the idea that the patterns of ethnic disproportionality evident in the UK Home Office statistics cannot be explained solely or even primarily at the level of individual officer behaviour or psychology because they are an outcome of an interaction between structural and institutional racism.”

Chief constable Lucy D’Orsi, who speaks for the NPCC on use of the weapon, said: “In 2019-20 black people were eight times more likely to have it used on them. Whilst figures from 2022-23 stats have shown a reduction to 4.2 times more likely, it is vital that we question why that is and take action.

“We welcome the findings of the report and are committed to thoroughly reviewing the content so that we can make appropriate changes to have a positive impact on the lives of black people.”

This Writer would suggest that the way police use Tasers is already impacting the lives of black people.

Source: Police more likely to Taser black people due to institutional racism, report finds | Police | The Guardian


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Cruel Britannia: Vox Political’s devastating new book is here

At last: Cruel Britannia joins the other Vox Political books and ebooks that are already available.

It took nearly 10 years, but the books are back!

The new Vox Political book – Cruel Britannia – was meant to be released in 2014. But life got in the way.

Yr Obdt Srvt (that’s me) got involved in a years-long struggle to get the then-Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government to release statistics showing how many sickness benefit claimants had died for no apparent reason after being thrown off the books.

Then I was accused of anti-Semitism (like practically everybody else who talks about politics in the UK, it seems) and had to spend a few years clearing my name.

And while that happened, I became embroiled in a court case with a bratty TV personality…

So the book collections had to be – shall we say… delayed.

This year, with no outside encumbrances, I was able to get back to putting together a collection of some of the best articles published between July and September 2013. That may seem a long time ago, but as the back cover states boldly: “The evidence shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

“So: the Tory government was victimising sick and disabled benefit claimants – just as in 2023.

“Tory ministers were creating an immigration crisis and then moaning about it – just as in 2023.

“Energy prices were a scandal – just as in 2023.

“The economy was falling apart – just as in 2023.

“And the National Health Service was lurching from crisis to crisis as an increasing proportion of it was handed over to businesspeople, to make them a profit – just as in 2023.

“Are we caught in a spiral of doom? Is there a way out?

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Painting over a child’s mural shows just a part of the Tories’ cruelty to children

Robert Jenrick: thanks to his actions – and those of his colleagues, someone should refer the Tory government to the NSPCC.

This should never have happened:

After saying there’s no money for anything, the Conservatives hired workers and sent them to a refugee detention centre for children – to paint over murals showing a smiling Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and other characters, because they didn’t want the kids there to feel comforted.

The minister responsible was Robert Jenrick, who overspent on his first campaign to be an MP, charged the public £100,000 for a third home he rarely used, and has given tens of millions of pounds worth of help to Tory donors.

The decision has been roundly condemned:

But when she was challenged on it, the Tory Financial Secretary to the Treasury – Victoria Atkins – actually had the front to tell Sophy Ridge her government wants to look after children “well”.

Here’s an example of how well the Tories look after children:

That’s right. Tories look after children in their care so well that they send them alone to hotels from which they know others have been taken. And what is the purpose of taking them? People trafficking? Dare I suggest sex trafficking?

Tories know what happens to these kids when the send them to places like that – but they send them anyway.

Would you call that looking after children well? Or would you call it something else?


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Starmer shouts down young people – in speech saying youngsters should speak up

Shutting down young voices: after this incident it is clear that, despite his own speechifying, Keir Starmer doesn’t want to allow anybody to speak up for themselves.

This is too good to leave for the News in tweets: while giving a speech on how young people need to learn how to express themselves vocally, Keir Starmer was challenged by two young people on Labour policy – and told them to shut up.

The youths from Green New Deal Rising were standing as part of a group of youngsters Starmer had arranged behind himself to make a good photo – but while he was talking about “oracy”, and his desire for people to be able to express themselves verbally, as well as on paper, they stepped forward.

This is what happened:

Another commentator, tweeting a similar clip, stated: “Keir Starmer making a speech about how important it is that young people learn how to express themselves & articulate their thoughts clearly. Starmer to young people expressing themselves & articulating their thoughts clearly: stop drowning other people out.”

Quite.

Worse than what happened today (Thursday, July 6, 2023) is the fact that Starmer has form in cold-shouldering young people from Green New Deal.

Remember this, from a recent Labour Party Conference?

Put it all together and not only do you know for sure that Rishi Sunak isn’t the only leader of a UK political party who is “simply uninterested” in the environment – Starmer couldn’t care less either…

But you can also be sure that, for all his own speechifying, he really doesn’t want anybody to be allowed – let alone able – to speak for themselves.


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Is this the trigger that will get young people interested in politics at last?

Connection lost: apparently a million people in the UK have cut their broadband connection to save money as the cost-of-living crisis bites. What will young people do, deprived of their escape from the harsh truth of life here in the 2020s?

If as many as one million people in the UK have cut off their broadband connections due to the cost-of-living crisis, does it mean disaffected young people are being deprived of their distractions?

A few days ago, in a different article, This Writer mentioned a friend who is a father, and who deplored young people’s refusal to engage in politics.

He said he saw little that interested the young apart from YouTube shorts and TikTok; anything lasting more than 15 seconds bored them, and they had no interest in society because they feel that society has taken everything that makes life worth living away from them.

So they distract themselves with Internet-based escapism.

And then this happens:

As many as one million people in the UK may have cut off their broadband due to the cost-of-living crisis.

It comes after Citizens Advice, a network of charities helping people with legal, debt and consumer advice, warned that mobile and broadband prices could rise by up to 17% this year.

The charity said its survey showed broadband … was becoming out of reach for greater numbers of households.

This should be exactly the kind of prompt that young people need.

They are losing their Internet connection because of government decisions that have pushed prices through the roof.

That alone should demonstrate to young people that just because they aren’t interested in politics, politicians aren’t going to leave them alone.

That’s if anybody actually stops to explain it to them.

And, presumably, if that explanation can be made in less than 15 seconds.

Source: One million in UK ‘switch off broadband due to cost of living crisis’


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Politics needs to give young people HOPE

I made a video clip:

I want to do a series about this so if you have any suggestions about how young people could get involved – and get what they want – please leave a comment!


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Tired of life under the Tory government? You are far from being alone

Despair: it seems many people in the UK are losing the will to live – even (or especially) the young. How can we restore their joie-de-vivre?

It seems many older people, despite being in good health, are tired of life.

They provide numerous reasons for feeling that way, as listed here:

Aching loneliness, pain associated with not mattering, struggles with self-expression, existential tiredness, and fear of being reduced to a completely dependent state.

Tiredness of life also seems to arise in people who consider themselves to have lived fulfilling lives. One man of 92 told the network’s researchers:

You have no effect on anything. The ship sets sail and everyone has a job, but you just sail along. I am cargo to them. That’s not easy. That’s not me. Humiliation is too strong a word, but it is bordering on it. I simply feel ignored, completely marginalised.

For some people, this elicits a deep-rooted sense that life has been stripped of meaning – and that the tools we need to rebuild a sense of purpose are irretrievable.

The article goes on to say that this feeling is similar to what some of us can experience at other points in life – but it’s not the same.

I wonder…

How many of us are experiencing the same feelings of “not mattering” – and not being able to matter, because we live in a society that completely suppresses us.

I was talking to a friend a while ago about ways of getting young people interested in voting at the local elections. He said he thought it would be close-to-impossible to motivate people aged between 18 and, say, 24 because they lack one basic element that makes life worthwhile.

They lack hope.

So they immerse themselves in video games, in the instant gratification of social media attention… in meaningless sex. It’s simply to give themselves something to do.

They don’t believe that anything they do will make a difference. The environment is permanently maimed, in their view. Politics is a closed shop where only “elites” are allowed. And business is likewise controlled by a few barons and their families – look at Akshata Murty, the wife of UK prime minister Rishi Sunak.

In short, there are no opportunities for social mobility – for improvement of the conditions of their lives. Tory government over the last 13 years has locked off any such opportunities.

What is the answer?

Logically, it would be to give these people their hope back. That is an extremely tall order for the elderly, who feel that all of their usefulness is behind them and (in many cases) all of the skills they learned in earlier life are obsolete. It would involve finding a way to re-engage tired minds with the modern way of life, and medical advances that would restore their physical abilities.

But the young?

They can’t help us because they don’t know how to regain something they don’t think they’ve ever had.

Do we look at history? Examine how young people were motivated in past times? Do we look at geography – examine how young people are motivated in other nations?

I’m asking because I don’t have an answer.

What’s yours? I’d especially like to know if you happen to be a young person.


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