I'll define who working people are ......says man drinking champagne from a golden goblet

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Work & pensions secretary Liz Kendall plans to keep £1.3bn in cuts to UK sickness benefits announced by the previous Tory government. This will affect half a million of the most vulnerable people.
She also plans to keep the draconian Tory changes to work capability assessments, in order to 'encourage' disabled people into work.

Kendall was the only Labour leadership candidate in 2015 to fully back Tory welfare cuts.

#Disability #DWP #LabourAusterity #UKPolitics

https://archive.is/ndpE4

The parasites are fighting each other, Nationalise this shithouse now!

https://news.sky.com/story/thames-water-bondholders-split-amid-fight-to-avert-nationalisation-13235407

#ThamesWater #Sewage #UKPOL #UKpolitics

Thames Water bondholders split amid fight to avert nationalisation 

A splinter group of lenders to Britain's biggest water company is mobilising to protect its interests as it races to secure a private sector bailout, Sky News learns.

^{Mark Kleinman (Sky News)}

"The #Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a hedge fund that stood to profit from #Israel’s war in #Gaza."

#UKpolitics

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/keir-starmer-labour-party-quadrature-donation-arms-companies-israel-war-gaza/

To mark the new U.K. Labour government's first 100 days, I'm going to have a look back at all the positive things they've done

No, this is not the build up to a bad joke. It's exactly what I'm going to do.

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Some good news from this government on the new Workers Rights Bill which will create a Fair Work Agency to enforce workers rights. Changes in the bill include:

- 9 million people will gain new rights against unfair dismissal
- 1 million low-paid workers on zero hours will have the right to job security on a new contract
- 30,000 more parents will gain new rights to paternity leave & 1.5 million will be newly entitled to unpaid parental leave.

#WorkersRights #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/10/new-enforcement-agency-will-protect-workers-rights-as-part-of-watershed-bill?CMP=GTUK_email

New enforcement agency will protect workers’ rights as part of ‘watershed’ bill

Employment rights legislation has been widely heralded by trade unions despite some commitments being watered down

^{Jessica Elgot (The Guardian)}

Thought crimes update.

"Terrorism charge to go ahead against Palestine Action co-founder"

https://realmedia.press/terrorism-charge-for-palestine-action-speech/

#UKPolitics #StopArmingIsrael #LabourAgentsOfGenocide #RightToProtest

What a difference a new job makes 🙄 😡
Torsten Bell, formerly of the Resolution Foundation, and now a Labour MP.

#UKPolitics #Liebour #Poverty #Inequality

This isn't America. This is Sheffield University.

#Censorship #Represssion #Gaza #Universities #UKPolitics

Content warning: UK politics Reveal/hide

It was an "accident". Honest. Cross my heart.
#ukpolitics #ukpol

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

We've signed a joint letter to oppose the resurrection of welfare surveillance powers in the UK.

Using welfare fraud as a wedge issue to spy on all benefit claimants is a huge blow for privacy and has the makings of a Horizon-style scandal.

Suspicionless algorithmic surveillance will impact pensioners, disabled people and carers. They will bear the brunt when these systems go wrong.

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#ukpolitics #surveillance #digitalrights #privacy #welfare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/monitoring-uk-bank-accounts-for-benefits-would-be-huge-blow-to-privacy

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

Exclusive: privacy and rights groups fear government may resurrect Tory plan for mass algorithmic surveillance

^{Robert Booth (The Guardian)}