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DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

UK government vote to go ahead with disability cuts.

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UK government vote to go ahead with disability cuts.

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DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
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MPs vote to take forward 'brutal' cuts to disability benefits
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MPs from all parties slammed the cuts to disability benefits, which will push an estimated 150,000 people into poverty, in a five-hour debate.
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  • iByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Gotta hit that 5% budget for NATO somehow kermit-pain

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      Funny thing is terf island doesn’t even need that, they can literally create more money to pay for both things, the central bank can issue unlimited pounds. But they’d rather simultaneously fund war and murder people with disabilities than only fund war.

  • ∞ 🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    “MPs vote to kill people”

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    These are the famous Western values that we’ve been hearing so much about.

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    At this point it seems like we’re just figuring out new ways to cull the disabled every 5 years.

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    Looks like this type of thing will be happening all over

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      doomjak: “I just want a job.”

      porky-happy: “Sorry kiddo, can’t help ya. I only hire ‘the best’ and I’m not even hiring anymore!”

      doomjak: “Please, I can’t work. Anything so I don’t die?”

      porky-happy: “Sorry kiddo, but that’s so undignified. Not to mention that ‘free stuff’ comes from stealing from hard workers like me! So no benefits, that would be stealing!”

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    On Monday (1 July), the government confirmed that cuts will only impact new disability benefit claimants, while current claimants will be protected.

    Shit is very bad but at least it will only affect new claims. I can see a court case happening down the line to determine what a “current claimant” really is when they fuck with some people though.

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      fingers crossed it could be killed at third stage

    • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Bosses do this with union contracts too, to create tiers with differing interests, splitting and dissipating the opposition

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        Yeah the ghouls in charge are basically running anti-leftist organising tactics. They have been doing so since the antizionism purges.

    • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Well that’s a new and terrible thing to worry about. I hadn’t thought of that.

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        On the plus side the court tends to come down against the government on benefits really often. I expect there will be some fuckery at some point and then the court will come down against the gov for it.

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          I hope so.

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    Right in lockstep with its imperial handler!

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    The rich could spit in our faces and libs would thank them for rain.

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    Removed by mod

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    Guy Fawkes did nothing wrong

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      He failed, that’s one wrong.

    • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      We need a Guy Fawkes #2.

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    Thr IRA did nothing wrong Br*tish cars deserved worse unlimited genocide upon the royal family and their collaborators.

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    Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the Treasury select committee and was a originally a key rebel, said “divided parties don’t hold power” and that claimed that if Labour members want to see their values played out in this country “we need to vote for this today”.

    We need unity and power so we can ram through more ghoulshit policies.

    I’m not kidding when I say this, kill these people.

    • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Blow up parliament.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        we should actually have a fawkes emote

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          would be a little weird to have an emote of a guy who tried (badly) to assassinate a king in order to put a different monarch on the throne on a communist forum

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            we trump-drenched only volcel-kamala have alex-karma emotes social-democracy of treatler communist obama heroes jfk-gaming

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              ok, fair point

              holy shit you have a lot of emotes

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                kim-cool

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    Looks like the whip was cracked https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2025-07-01-248-commons

    When Suella “homelessness is a lifestyle choice” Braverman votes ‘no’ you have to question what you’re doing surely.

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    Ok porky, one less SCARY government program scaring all the jobs away. Now you’ll get in the hiring mood again, right?

    Right?

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