Comments by "Safir Ahmed" (@safirahmed) on "Civil Service Overhaul, Disability Benefit Cuts, Smacking Ban \u0026 9-Year-Old's Donor Plea I GMB Today" video.

  1. If Labour impose Conservative's policy of PIP vouchers then there will be widespread support to replace MP salaries and expenses with vouchers in order to reduce unsustainable costs of MPs and Peers particularly Ministers spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on hospitality, food, drink and air travel. MPs and Peers who live outside London could have their London accommodation costs and 2nd house costs replaced with shared facilities co-living accommodation where kitchens and bathrooms are shared in line with Thatcherite free market housing policy.
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  2. @MGobin54  Thanks! The same MPs who demand pay rises and expenses say that £10 billion lost to fraud and error is unsustainable but that is only 0.89% of the 2024/2025 government budget of £1,216 billion. The MPs who want to cut £6 billion from PIP from the most vulnerable disabled will only reduce the budget by 0.42%. All the cuts to social security benefits including PIP are unnecessary but these cuts will be devastating to the disabled.
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  3. 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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