Clearly, more needs to be done to reduce inequality and deprivation in Britain. Even once the effects of this change have been felt, an estimated 4 million children will remain in poverty.
That’s the Guardian, welcoming the end to the two child benefit cap, the only sensible policy the Tories managed to get through.
But this week’s win should not be taken for granted. Benefits Street-type hostility is still all too widespread in Britain. When Labour was voted in, six in 10 Britons favoured keeping the cap in place – which may have added to the hesitancy around reversing it. That has reduced slightly, but research for More in Common last year found that 49% believed that removing the limit would be a “very” or “somewhat” bad idea, compared with 36% in favour.
That 49% have realised who we are paying to breed.
When ending it was framed as giving every child a good start, support surged.
Proof that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Sometimes, huge wins can be short‑lived. Labour must talk proudly about this moment, then build on it.
Yes, please do keep on talking about the disastrous decisions you have been making since you came into office, what’s the worst that can happen?
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As statistics show that the birth rate amongst indigenous people of the UK is falling, so those same statistics show that the birth rate amongst a certain demographic, whose culture allows more than one wife, is increasing rapidly. Like the Chinese, followers of islam play the long game. Whereas the Chinese simply absorb invaders, this country is too small to do that, so the increasing influx of small boat invaders will gradually overtake those who they consider inferior. Recent reports show that Britain could well become part of a larger Caliphate within three generations, unless our political masters, whose priority should be the safety and wellbeing of it's citizens, do what they were elected to do. Sadly, I fear that Pte Frazer will be proved right.
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It's not just the 2 child limit, what about the cost of 4, or is it 5, generations of imported 1st cousin fuckers and the multiple window lickers they produce?
In the Islamic Republic of Bradistan, schools are built willy nilly in the "right" postcodes?
But Labour are screwed on May 7th, not by Reform or Restore. The "Independent" Islamists are on the rise
Some fifty years ago, my great-aunt (a former headmistress and a force to be reckoned with) solemnly warned me to be wary of all religions but, in particular, those which encourage conversion and expect their followers to produce large families.
Her main focus was Catholicism (she taught in a part of the industrial North West of England where sectarianism was a problem) but she also speculated on the long-term impact of the Muslim workers who had come to live in her school’s catchment area - an interesting demonstration of prescience.
(She lived to a very determined old age, possibly because her rational atheism was not quite certain enough to counteract the fire-and-brimstone preaching of her strict Chapel-going childhood.)
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