Reform UK unveils plan to cut £50bn from welfare
Another day another attempt by Reform to attack already vulnerable individuals. Not only will this see people who absolutely need support stripped of it and left to suffer, it will kill off small businesses. It harms everyone, all in the name of promoting ableism. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dan Sohege30We already see numerous cases of people denied support when they need it, with catastrophic results. Often though many of those suffering because of an existing lack of support, or fear of seeking it due to the invasive and hostile questioning, are in the shadows, unseen and unknown. 2/
Paul Bernal14Their plans would also mean companies would avoid employing anyone seen as any kind of risk of going off sick. It’s catastrophic all round.
ses67.bsky.social5Another day, another Reform non-story leading on the BBC
Paul Bernal5But don’t worry, Dan, all disabled people are faking it. This will make them pull their socks up.
Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦4Editors note: over 50% of “welfare” is pensions and payments to pensioners.
James Leakyboots Batty3To me this looks like Reform's answer to people who say its only core value is its racism. "Not a bit of it," says Jenrick, "We loathe & despise anyone vulnerable, we are equal opportunity bigoted shits."
Depressing to see BBC headline treating this as if it's a serious proposition But Reform are serious about returning us to an 18th-century level of social support So many of their voters depend on the sorts of benefits they would strip away #TurkeysVoting4Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stevie10This is Trumpism. Tell the idiots how you are going to harm them and then watch them vote for you. Absolute madness.
Poet Sue10They are abolishing PIP!! Their main issue is that many of their supporters will be on it. They are basically going to go to American system where if you are vulnerable you are on your own. Even more important that progressive parties work together to make sure Farage NEVER gets in to Number 10.
Richard M.6They persuaded those that would be hardest hit by Brexit to vote for it... They're just going back to the same well...
benjka.bsky.social5Over 10,000 people in Clacton claim PIP
londonsunshine.bsky.social5But why are the BBC giving it such prominent positioning? Bias!
Timeflies3Sound like the US under Trump
A big part of these proposals is to make employers take out insurance to cover employee sickness costs, removing that obligation from state. I’m sure the fact Arron Banks runs an insurance company is just a coincidence.
Buck Frexit21And what do we think this will do to employment of older people or those who’ve had cancer or other serious illness in the past? Smokers? Oerweight people? Will genetic screening/family health history become part of job applications? I hope to God people think very seriously about this.
Richard M.8Personal health care insurance... "do you get dental with that" American system rubbish... No more NHS... Every single Reform UK proposed policy moves us a little further away from being the country we are...
Donna3Oh, for sure. Just like their plans for our NHS.
Mike Wilson3Employers will recover insurance costs by raising prices to consumers. Rich pay less tax, the rest of us pay more for everything.
Dennis3Now don’t you go along there joining dots - you know that joined up thinking confuses Reform voters!
bitterntwisted.bsky.social3Pushing towards an American model. Which is self-evidently disastrous.
BBC have tweaked the headline's claim from "would" to "to": "Reform UK plans to overhaul welfare system to save £50bn" - which remains a poor, credulous and skewed headline. "Reform claims its welfare reform plans could save £50bn" would be the report here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)31A broadly analogous headline could be "Reform plan to abolish BBC licence fee to save public up to £4 billion" [while defunding the BBC] The propspects of the welfare plans achieving the hypothetical £50bn savings total are lower. BBC headline implies deadweight cost [large cuts affect 3m people]
"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱10The BBC news editors are still promoting reform. They need removing.
Plain Lincoln3Nah. Based on the available information, the headline should be more like "Serial Reform fraudster makes outrageous savings claims about gutting welfare"🤔
Barbara Chambers1I’ve given up on the bbc. Once a respected news source now a voice for the extreme right.
This is a dead platform1It’s still a lie we know, they know and their base knows it but it’s something that will be used to amuse / agitate in equal measures into a political pantomime o no you can’t o yes we can
On Monday, Reform will parade their fantasy plan to cut £50 billion in welfare - including stopping PIP benefits for all but the most severely disabled - to distract us from scrutiny of Farage's finances. We should not be distracted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
azlarryan.bsky.social6FFS, sick of this rhetoric! Why do they always assume everyone is a chancer?! Cut the benefits and that puts a heap more pressure on individuals, families, carers, councils, services and the NHS. Part of why this country feels broken. Tories tried it already and it made everyone worse off!
Peter2And to distract from the fact that one opinion poll has put them on 18%.
Firstly, BBC why are you headlining Reform again, a plan which is half baked and not even out there yet, Nandy do your job. Second, Reform can't add up, already it's clear the funds won't be there and those supporting welfare cuts with kids with ADHD etc it will hit them too as they pull benefits.
Bindyp4What is the point of Nandy?
Mags2She absolutely should be stepping up! This would be the perfect time, to make a damming statement about the media! Followed by a timeline to implement major changes.
Muddled mind1'What has the BBC, done for me'
Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈1The devils on the detail, but that’s OK, Reform don’t do detail.
Suz MacLeod1I heard someone (a Romanian, I think) say the BBC has painted Judge Dredd cartoons on Jenrick’s dedicated green room wall to make him feel more comfortable in otherwise strange surroundings.
