Will Labour cut benefits?
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:31 pm
In recent weeks, there have been reports in the media about the government's proposed benefit changes.
I know this difficult subject has been discussed elsewhere in the forum, but people who will be affected by such changes are understandably both worried and angry about what is going on.
Sometimes I wish the government would be straight with us about them and explain the proposals in public. Most of us know resources are tight, particularly now due to the current geopolitical concerns, but to entrench fresh poverty onto already vulnerable people will not save a single penny and will inevitably cause a huge public backlash.
Charities, protest groups, trade unions and opposition MPs have warned the government that such proposals should be taken off the table. All this speculation is rightly making Labour MPs very anxious, at a time when public support for the government is at an all time low.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has a tough job trying to raise meagre sources of revenue to fund our declining public services. Will she make the same mistakes as she did on withdrawing the winter fuel allowance and maintaining the two child benefit cap?
If she continues on this course of belt tightening via benefit cuts and overall reductions in public spending, then Labour can kiss any hopes of retaining power after 2028 goodbye.
I know this difficult subject has been discussed elsewhere in the forum, but people who will be affected by such changes are understandably both worried and angry about what is going on.
Sometimes I wish the government would be straight with us about them and explain the proposals in public. Most of us know resources are tight, particularly now due to the current geopolitical concerns, but to entrench fresh poverty onto already vulnerable people will not save a single penny and will inevitably cause a huge public backlash.
Charities, protest groups, trade unions and opposition MPs have warned the government that such proposals should be taken off the table. All this speculation is rightly making Labour MPs very anxious, at a time when public support for the government is at an all time low.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has a tough job trying to raise meagre sources of revenue to fund our declining public services. Will she make the same mistakes as she did on withdrawing the winter fuel allowance and maintaining the two child benefit cap?
If she continues on this course of belt tightening via benefit cuts and overall reductions in public spending, then Labour can kiss any hopes of retaining power after 2028 goodbye.