On 18 March 2025 the UK Labour Government announced £5 billion worth of cuts to disability benefits, including Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The equivalent to PIP we have in Scotland is called Adult Disability Payment. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) it is the biggest Continue Reading
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From the welfare state to the workfare-warfare state
Starmer’s decisive shift rightwards has blown another gaping hole in Labour Party left’s pretentions to offer a socialist alternative within the party. Individually left parliamentarians express their outrage at cuts in fuel winter allowance and the prospect of a proposed £6 billion cuts to benefits to finance defence spending. Collectively, Continue Reading