Weds 26/3/25 Spring Statement (Emergency Budget) 12:30PM
 

Labour says this is a Spring Statement
this time next week.

Many say it is an Emergency Budget
with Cuts.


Rachel Reeves MP
will be there.

How about cutting their own overinflated wages and money their spend for the most ridiculous things?

No sadly,
MP wages got a new increase
yesterday

7AM Inflation Fell to 2.8%


It was 3%

BBC1HD

Live in the Sheffield University Cafe
With a Group of seated public
including old folks

Their Reporter is moving
round the tables

there are going to be far deeper cuts to welfare than were announced last week. Apparently, it wont affect the poor, let's see how that pans out

Yes, many are saying the poor are doomed
with Labour.

More Political Ponerology

I'm hoping to hear they're closing migrant hotels and housing them in tents now the summer's coming, in a cost-cutting measure. But then I'm quite the optimist.

Live now

She is blaming the Conservatives
for making the debt double

Rachel Reeves mini budget bingo card.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm9VbAnX...jpg&name=small

She keeps saying
"The world is changing."


We know that,

PM Starmer
Touched her shoulder
as she sat down.

Now Conservative Mel Stride MP
saying she has not helped people
With Her Choices

ITV1HDnews
Live going through what she has said.

They are skipping the Mel.

Boak.

i had to laugh when reeves said growth figures had been upgraded for future years. We don't know what the world will be like next week let alone 3 or 4 years time

In Burnley,
On BBC2HD Extended Politics Live

A Pastor
said he now accepts more suicides.

So as far as I can see there was nothing in her Spring Statement that had not already be trailed, apart from the fine tuning of how she is going to squeeze the Pips out of people on PiP.

Is that a good summary, I was getting my hair done so didn't hear her live but I think that is the gist?

The sick and disabled punished.

Illegal immigrants, no change... they'll still be looked after like kings.

Yes, a nice old lady in Burnley
seated at an indoor cafe
said "Get Labour Out"

So Rachel got her original figures wrong and the OBR estimated her original welfare cuts would bring in 3.5 billion rather than the 5 she estimated so hence the further swinging cuts, as one Labour MP put it, balancing the books on broken backs


I am sure Liam will be along shortly to say this is great as the disabled will be able to try to work...good luck with them getting a job though

250,000 people including 50 thousand children will be pushed into poverty by the end of Parliament ...and this is a Labour government, the Country is fecked

Labour MP Clive Lewis
said he will not vote for this.

He is worried about his disabled folks
in his constituency.

Just spoke on SkyNewsHD

She is now Live
all media.


From Downing Street
media room.

Reeves MP

Now taking Questions.

Families will be 500.00 better off by the end of Parliament :joker: they are trolling us for real, this is almost as good as a penny off a pint off beer....

Ch5HDnews
In a community hub
Birkenhead,
The manager stated that a nice old lady
can not afford her heating.
So she stays on buses all day.

From what I can see, it will be people with mental health issues that will lose their PIP as they wont reach the 4 point threshold on some of the questions, most will reach 2 but that will not be enough

800,000 PIP claimants are set to see benefit cuts as Rachel Reeves commits to a Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) change. The DWP and Labour Party government has introduced stricter eligibility criteria for those claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

According to the OBR’s March 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook, around 800,000 people are expected to lose eligibility for the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) due to the new threshold that requires scoring at least 4 points in a single daily living activity.

Birmingham Live

My other question is the tailored support to get people back to work, exactly what is it apart from sounding good?

Remember when Starmer pretended he cared ....pre election of course

He gets no freebies from the poor

As it stands..
If I was in parliament there's no way I could support this, not the changes to pip particularly.
I've battled for the sick and disabled for many years now.

I'm all for any sick or disabled helped to find work IF they can work and more to the point THEY feel they can.
I've read lots and also on here over the years, when the Cons were in, moaning about the sick and disabled getting this or that.
While yes, there's some who take advantage of the system, it's not a great number.
Even conditions like diabetes, some scoff at that.
I've seen the dangers of it, plus while some can have it controlled, others don't.
The debilitating condition it is with its many complications can even as to that, make it difficult to work.

I've also attended with others, these awful re-assessnents of claimants as to DLA, and PIP and also ESA too.
With NOT a Doctor doing them at all but a probably commission paid so called health professional, who really are nothing more than box tickers with the view of reducing or stopping benefits.

I've been with people left near suicidal after such assessments.
There's next to no compassion.

I couldn't then support these plans as they are.
The changing of the criteria to qualify for PIP.
The current criteria was too heartless in my view, raising the points level in these new plans are absolutely wrong.

This isn't clear enough as to the plans.
If things were stronger economically and you had the necessary things in place to really assist as to work.
Then that would be much more acceptable.
However someone sick and disabled are the ones who really KNOW if they can do work.
They know their bodies, they know how they feel.

Who knows as to someone sick and disabled just how much the added stress of having to work will add to the already limits from their conditions.
Certainly NOT ANY political Party.
Certainly NOT a government either.
Certainly NOT those box tickers doing re-assessing.

I don't like one bit these plans.
Not one bit at all.
I hope Labour backbenchers will think hard on them, however the sad thing is most other Parties would be looking at doing similar.
I never though expected this from this government,no way.

Have they just arrived on a dinghy? No? **** 'em then.

she is so out her depth

its staggering

Worst thing is, in 4 years time there no point changing cause the merry go round will just go round again. Keep labour in, its enjoyable having them to blame for a change.