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  • DWP launches entirely bogus Green Paper consultation

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    Keir Starmer explains the moral case for cutting disability benefits. He says work will set you free.
    Keir Starmer explains the moral case for cutting disability benefits. He says work will set you free.

    https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-launches-entirely-bogus-green-paper-consultation

    The DWP has launched an entirely bogus consultation on changes to personal independence payment (PIP) and universal credit (UC) by refusing to consult on almost everything that matters most to claimants.

    The Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper sets out proposed changes to PIP, including preventing anyone who does not score at least one 4 point or more descriptor from being eligible for the daily living component.

    It also proposes to freeze the LCWRA (health) element of UC and abolish the WCA.

    Non-consultation

    Yet the list of things that the DWP is refusing to consult on, meaning there are no questions about them in the online consultation, includes:

    • Scrapping the WCA
    • Creating a single assessment for PIP and the UC health element
    • Freezing the health element of UC until 2029/30
    • Only awarding PIP daily living if you get at least one descriptor scoring 4 or more points
    • Restarting WCA reassessments until the WCA is scrapped

    (You can find a full list of the issues the DWP will and won’t be consulting on at Annex A of the Green Paper).

    Leading questions

    Instead of asking for feedback on these vital issues, the consultation asks questions that make the assumption that participants accept that people should lose their PIP:

    2. What support do you think we could provide for those who will lose their Personal Independence Payment entitlement as a result of a new additional requirement to score at least 4 points on one daily living activity?

    3. How could we improve the experience of the health and care system for people who are claiming Personal Independence Payment who would lose entitlement?

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    Article continues at https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-launches-entirely-bogus-green-paper-consultation

    Keir Starmer explains that he feels no shame or guilt benefiting personally from gifts from the rich and powerful while insisting on policies of severe austerity.
    Keir Starmer explains that he feels no shame or guilt benefiting personally from gifts from the rich and powerful while insisting on policies of severe austerity.

  • Reform mask Slips in workers’ rights vote

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reform-mask-slips-workers-rights-vote

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage attends a farmers protest in Whitehall, London, March 4, 2025

    REFORM’S pro-worker mask has slipped, the TUC said today, after all its MPs joined the Tories in opposing Labour’s employment rights law.

    Nigel Farage’s Commons contingent voted against the legislation despite polling showing that its main provisions are highly popular in their own constituencies.

    TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Reform and the Conservatives have shown their true colours once again.

    “Instead of voting for common-sense reforms, like banning exploitative zero-hours contracts and day-one access to sick pay, they have voted to deny millions basic protections at work.

    “Nigel Farage is not on the side of working people. He’s a political fraud, defying his own constituents to oppose stronger workers’ rights.”

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reform-mask-slips-workers-rights-vote

    Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
    Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.

  • Green Party members vote to support four day week

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    https://leftfootforward.org/2023/10/green-party-members-vote-to-support-four-day-week/

    Green Party conference agreed to support the policy

    Green co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay.
    Green co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay.

    The Green Party of England and Wales has formally backed a four day working week for the first time. Members of the party voted to support the policy at their autumn conference in Brighton. 

    Previously, leading Greens had given warm support for the principle of a four day week, but it did not formally sit in the party’s policy book. 

    Following the motion, the party has endorsed moving towards a 32 hour working week in the medium term. According to the party’s new policy, workers would have a ‘right to request these reduced hours at no loss of pay and without detriment’. 

    The motion was overwhelmingly passed by members at the conference.

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    https://leftfootforward.org/2023/10/green-party-members-vote-to-support-four-day-week/