2 articles
• via The Guardian
Seven months after Labour promised to end mass food bank dependency, 14 million Britons—one in six households—are now food insecure. With working families increasingly reliant on charity, the government's failure to tackle the root causes of poverty is driving systemic decline and social unrest.
• via The Independent
Labour has engineered a welfare betrayal that perfectly exemplifies British political decay: faced with rebellion from 120 MPs over cuts to disability benefits, ministers created a two-tier system that protects existing claimants while slashing support for future disabled people by nearly 50%. This temporal discrimination ensures current voters keep their benefits while anyone requiring support after 2026 faces dramatically reduced payments—transforming the welfare state from social insurance into an electoral protection racket that sacrifices future claimants to preserve immediate political survival.