This morning there are lots of responses to Labour's proposed cuts to disability benefits, here are just two:
1. As Anna Landre argues, what the Govt. actually needs to do is: 'ask disabled people who want to work what keeps them from doing so & construct targeted policies to address those barriers'...
rather than just assume they know the answers & can make disabled people's decisions about support for them.
cont ....
"I hope that the new child poverty taskforce provides the rapid justification for making changes ASAP, and will be making noise to this effect along with many other colleagues."
I wrote to my new Labour MP, James McNaish (nephew of Alastair Campbell) about the two- child benefit cap. Here's his reply:
"On the two-child benefit cap, it is a source of great frustration for MPs that this hasn't been included in the King’s Speech; BUT it wasn't in our manifesto, so it would have been dangerous politically to start including brand new commitments less than two weeks after a general election. You can imagine the opposition narrative…...cont/