Comments by "Safir Ahmed" (@safirahmed) on "Good Morning Britain" channel.

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  33. Many Labour MPs will only follow their leader and repeat their leaders opinions. All benefits cuts and eligibility restrictions are unnecessary as the British government owned Bank of England gives the British government all the money the British government needs. PIP (Personal Independence Payment) fraud is 0.0%. British Conservative and Liberal Democrats governments from May 2010 - December 2019 have cut £37 billion from social security benefits. Conservative government wasted £37 billion on a failed privatised test and trace programme over two years. British government owned Bank of England could easily fund increases in all social security benefits including disability benefits. The benefits cuts of £6 billion is 0.42% of the government budget for 2024/2025. The government claims that benefit fraud and benefits error of £10 billion is unsustainable yet £10 billion is only 0.89% of the 2024/2025 budget of £1,216 billion. Bank of England spent £4 trillion on Quantitative Easing from 2009 - 2022 with £200 billion in 2009 with most of the money in recent years going to institutional investors. However austerity and benefits cuts particularly disability benefits cuts are completely unnecessary and pure Neoliberal Thatcherite ideology. The previous legacy benefits system paid the absolute minimum required for benefits claimants and so the MPs in Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats voted to cut the absolute minimum and then freeze increases due to inflation and cost of living to pay even less. Police Chief Constables reported that crime rates increased in areas where Universal Credit was rolled out and both crime and mental health issues will massively increase when the Labour welfare reform of benefits cuts are imposed. MPs, Ministers salaries are unsustainable and it's time the Parliamentary salaries for MPs were replaced with Universal Credit paid at the same standard Universal Credit rates as the people as this will be the only way MPs will increase Universal Credit levels to address true living costs.
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  42. Parliamentary Reform: If PIP cash payments are replaced with vouchers then voters will demand all MPs and Peers expense payments are replaced with vouchers. If the state pension becomes means tested then voters will demand that MPs and Peers salaries, pensions and expenses be means tested. Means testing will mean any MP or Peer with a household net worth including property of GBP £2 million to have the same Universal Credit taper rate percentage reduction in payment of Parliamentary salaries, pensions and expenses to a maximum household net worth of GBP £10 million including property. Any MP or Peer with a household net worth including property exceeding GBP £10 million will mean MPs and Peers will not be eligible for any Parliamentary salary, not receive any Parliamentary pension, not receive any Parliamentary expenses. DWP should monitor all MPs and Peers bank accounts for Parliament and take money from MPs and Peers bank accounts for overpayments, errors and fraud. DWP should be able to prosecute MPs and Peers including suspending MPs and Peers driving licence and passports until the issue of MPs and Peers overpayments, errors and fraud have been corrected. If new co-living projects approved from 2023/2024 onwards are not scrapped and converted into traditional housing where each household has their own contained living facilities then MPs and Peers who live outside London should be expected to live in co-living facilities near the Houses of Parliament with all Parliamentary payments towards MPs homes scrapped.
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