Reform UK unveils plan to cut £50bn from welfare

Jamie Crawford4

16m disabled folks in the UK. Almost everyone knows one of us, whether they realise it or not. I became disabled at 50, it’s not a closed shop.

Don't panic Jonesey4

Why is this crap from a party with half a dozen or so MPs news? A deliberate distraction from the Frogface and Tice financial scandals?

Captain Haddock4

And quite a lot of them will vote for Reform

PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸3

So please explain why anyone would vote for this

Kevin Thurston3

First they came for the Jews Then the communists Then the disabled. I see a repeat pattern.

Richard M.16

Personal 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...

Rob Sherry 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇱6

So what do they think employers are going to do? They will put prices up 🙄…insurers will put so many exemptions on it’ll be like America. What evil bastards they are

bitterntwisted.bsky.social6

Pushing towards an American model. Which is self-evidently disastrous.

Donna5

Oh, for sure. Just like their plans for our NHS.

Dennis5

Now don’t you go along there joining dots - you know that joined up thinking confuses Reform voters!

Paul Bernal18

Their 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.social6

Another day, another Reform non-story leading on the BBC

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦6

Editors note: over 50% of “welfare” is pensions and payments to pensioners.

Paul Bernal6

But don’t worry, Dan, all disabled people are faking it. This will make them pull their socks up.

James Leakyboots Batty3

To 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."

Richard M.13

They persuaded those that would be hardest hit by Brexit to vote for it... They're just going back to the same well...

Poet Sue13

They 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.

benjka.bsky.social12

Over 10,000 people in Clacton claim PIP

londonsunshine.bsky.social8

But why are the BBC giving it such prominent positioning? Bias!

[email protected]5

BBC have re-written the headline multiple times, but it doesn’t explain why they headline a policy proposal by a party with single figure MPs, years from an election nor why they don’t put quotes around £50bn claim. Would LDs or Greens policy get same uncritical editorial promotion from our BBC?

Camembert Electrique7

'The Day After Farage BinElection, Reform Announce Swinging Cuts to Disability Benefits' Is my go at it, any better?

Stevie6

We have entered into full blown Trumpism, where the subservient media simply refuse to point out the lies. The fact that BBC is doing this on public money is all the more galling.

leearizuno.bsky.social5

Reform are totally not wannabe Nazis, which is why they're attacking disabled people in press release.

leearizuno.bsky.social3

"The current system is "suicidal empathy" and "a strange perversion of compassion" is very much not a normal thing to say.

⚝ vorsprung durch zauberkraft ⚝2

did any of the bbc's fine journalists raise the question of how reform would then replace the 50 billion pounds that would no longer be going back into the economy several times over?

207michael.bsky.social2

The problem though is, its what their supporters want. They want an extremely hostile and volatile relationship with the EU

durhamgal.bsky.social2

And headline news on the BBC! Why on earth isn't the government sorting the leadership of BBC news out.

tarna68.bsky.social1

Day dreaming Nige at it again Gobshite needs Gaffa tape !!

flyfella.bsky.social1

Reform uk ltd’s attack on welfare is because the frog-faced cunt was humiliated by #Binface and now he’s under investigation for his £5m ‘’gift’, the prick thought the by-election would kill the investigation, prick!!

William Humphrey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿1

Unsurprising from the cunts !

"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱13

The BBC news editors are still promoting reform. They need removing.

Plain Lincoln5

Nah. Based on the available information, the headline should be more like "Serial Reform fraudster makes outrageous savings claims about gutting welfare"🤔

Barbara Chambers2

I’ve given up on the bbc. Once a respected news source now a voice for the extreme right.

ollyb1972.bsky.social2

Changed again by the looks of it

Colin Farmery1

And the headline now has a repeated word in it. P*sspoor subbing all round, to be honest.

Mhairi Alexander1

Disabled people are much easier to target - they generally don't have accountants who can hide their money

Natalia Alejo 🇺🇦 🪖 💪 ✌️ 👍1

I NEED to do some in-depth research into Reform UK BUT so far I've briefly gleaned that if THEY come to power they WILL want to make cuts to NHS funding and shift toward an insurance-based health system(?) AND they've also pledged to SAVE £50bn by cutting the benefits bill?? youtu.be/PKZU8cVaXkE?...

Alison Flower1

Don't forget this was the scumbag who as immigration minister under the Tories ordered murals of Mickey Mouse at a children's detention centre painted over because it would be too welcoming.

John Rob1

They're the party for the selfish, and ignorant, who aren't actually directly, or indirectly affected by a disability. For those who just think that being disabled is just tough shit, and why should they have to shell pay for someone elses problem anyway?

Peter3

And to distract from the fact that one opinion poll has put them on 18%.

Chris Smith1

The BBC of course are happily distracted.

Grumps 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 YNWA 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇪🇺1

Approx 860,000 disabled children under 16 receive the Disability Living Allowance (DLA). Young people transition from DLA to PIP once they turn 16. It's going to be called Health Security Allowance, a Postcode Lottery - seems "security" has different meaning for Farage and Reform to the rest of us

Paul Quinn1

He's got to attract Musk's support if he's going to challenge Farage and take on Lowe for the fash vote.

Rafas Dad2

And the BBC reporting it as fact, rather than at best, a big wild claim.

📚 Dread 📚1

It was like all the people that voted Brexit and then moaned that they were only allowed to bring 200 Lambert and Butler kingside back from their holidays (watching them winge about it at the airport was one of my biggest Brexit joys).

Sophie Plowden1

I’m really surprised by this announcement: it seems Jenrick doesn’t understand his party’s own constituency. Reform had to back-track when its base objected to Tice dismissing ADHD diagnoses and calling ear defenders insane.

Mags2

She 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 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈1

The devils on the detail, but that’s OK, Reform don’t do detail.

Suz MacLeod1

I 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.