The Labour Party's Vile Benefits Agenda Exposed by Wes Streeting

Right, so following the defection of hard right Tory MP Natalie Elphicke to the Labour Party, there seems to be no limits to how awful a Tory you could possibly be, with the track record that comes with that, that would preclude you from being allowed to join Keir Starmer’s New Tory Party – we can hardly call it New Labour or even New New Labour, when they aren’t so much getting the Tories out, but letting them in with a warm welcome instead, so I think New Tory Party is far more fitting. That said however, the old Tory Party as it were, or at least some in it, remain critical of Labour and not only have criticised them, but done so in a way, that has actually put themselves to the left of Labour. Suella Braverman has raised her head above the parapet to apparently criticise Labour over their decision to retain the cruel poverty inflicting two child benefit cap. It was her party that introduced that of course, but rather than ditch it, Labour has chosen to keep it and not only have Labour decided to keep it, but Wes Streeting, Keir Starmer’s health minion and a glazed ham of a man about as likeable as a dose of the clap – and good luck being able to see a doctor about that once he’s in charge, you’ll probably have to go private – has defended keeping the cap, placing himself and Labour to the right of the Tories on social security as cruel as we know they have been to benefits claimants, the long term sick and disabled.
Right, so when it comes to just how obviously horrible the Labour Party now is, one prominent wannabe minister who seemingly cannot resist reminding people of what a nasty piece of work he can be and loves nothing less than an opportunity to go on TV or run to the mainstream media at any opportunity to big up himself, than Wes Streeting, but to do so in a manner that now puts himself to the right of a hard right maniac like Suella Braverman is an achievement even for him, yet he’s managed it.
For as Godawful a human being as Suella Braverman is, her depravity over migrant crossings, her dreams of deporting asylum seekers to an unsafe African nation, no matter what the Tories write into law, the truth rarely factors in and certainly didn’t here, she has made a surprising intervention when it comes to benefits. Now you can dismiss this as her making mischief, she doesn’t mean it, look at the Tories track record on such things and I totally hear, you, if you’ve read my YouTube video descriptions, if you’re a regular watcher, then you know I’m an unpaid carer, I’ve lived within the social security system due to being a carer for two disabled family members, I’ve experienced first hand the cruelty the Tories have dished out, and my family consider themselves survivors of that, when so many have not, so it does leave a sour taste in my mouth to actually acknowledge what Braverman of all people here is saying about the two child benefit cap, because what she has said, in an article she penned in the Torygraph, I don’t entirely disagree with. Much of the article eulogises the recently deceased Labour MP Frank Field, who she hailed for his work on benefits, though, despite being brought up to not speak ill of the dead, Frank Field was anything but, he was fully onboard with the belief that benefits were a lifestyle choice, but like many politicians who say that, they’ve never had to try living on them and Braverman underlines that by saying Field would probably have agreed with the reforms the Tories have brought in. I’d like to think that isn’t true, Tory benefit reforms have killed people and sticking with them, Labour will oversee the same, but the crux of this video, the point I want to make is that despite hailing what her party has done on benefits, Braverman has put the boot in to the two child benefit cap. Capping child benefits, whether the premiums via Universal Credit, or the likes of Child Benefit and Child Tax Credits under the old legacy system, to the first two children only, meaning any more that the family might have, are left impoverished. Now you can argue that the family shouldn’t have had more kids than they can afford, that isn’t the point really though, why punish the child? Is it the child’s fault? Is it the parents fault as well, when the Tories have screwed up the running of this country so much, that work increasingly doesn’t pay enough and more people who might have been keeping their heads above water in a large family once upon a time, now find they no longer are.
The whole point of the two child benefit cap as it was introduced by Mr Austerity, George Osborne, was to force people living on benefits, who were all shirkers as that Tory government painted them, as having to make the same choices in having a family as working families did – everyone struggling, so let’s just make the poorest and disproportionately families containing long term sick and disabled people, even harder up. That’ll get them into work won’t it? Not if you’re disabled. Once upon a time there was a thing called Remploy, that helped disabled people find work they could do, created opportunities for them, this was scrapped and they’ve been failed ever since, little wonder the Tories have been accused of trying to kill such people off under their rule, and not without some good reason.
The fact is, it didn’t help larger families back into work. Less money, meant no child care, less money meant poverty increased without being able to go to work. It has been a cruel abject failure and as much as the cruelty of the policy I don’t believe has moved someone like Braverman one iota, failure and wasting public money in her eyes, well that won’t do. Benefit freezes and additional cruel policies like this have left those with the least unable to afford to get by, so now even she, Suella Braverman, little miss let’s put migrants on a legionella filled prison barge, is acknowledging that the benefits reforms of George Osborne, at least in regards to this benefit cap are a failure.
Someone who disagrees with her however, is Wes Streeting, who is all for keeping it. Vote Labour to get the Tories out folks I would remind you once again, really isn’t true and as I’ve also said previously, Labour under Starmer, with sociopaths like Streeting in government could be even worse. This is a sociopathic policy, it always has been. So why would Labour keep it? They were all for scrapping it at one point, but that was another Starmer pledge he never meant and now it is just one more example of where there is literally no difference between Labour and the Tories. I fail to see why any sick or disabled person looking at this, knowing what life has been like under the Tories, would want to vote Labour now, because there is nothing here to vote for if you’re in that boat in my view.
So what has Streeting said then? Well just to ice this particularly rancid s**t sandwich of a Labour policy position, Streeting acknowledged poverty amongst the worst off was so bad and the fear of the benefit cap itself and what it meant if someone fell pregnant with their third child, that there had been a rise in directly related abortions. Seems like a good reason to end the two child benefit cap then eh Wes? Apparently not because seemingly in the next breath when asked about hat, he defended keeping the cap, because labour don’t want to be seen to be giving out handouts. So you don’t actually care if the abortions continue then? Streeting is a guy who makes much of having been raised by a single mother on a council estate and how much he hated it, but instead of appreciating the politics of what caused that, he appears to have just put as much distance between himself and that memory as he possibly could, to an extent that he doesn’t actually give a damn anymore about people growing up in the same of worse circumstances, because he’s alright now. That’s how this comes across and it now puts Labour benefit policy to the right of that of somebody like Suella Braverman. Here’s an excerpt from the Independent who interviewed Streeting:
‘He said: “I think that the answer on child poverty is all about social security. Of course, that's part of it. I grew up on a council estate with a single mum, and often the benefit system put food in the fridge and money in the electric meter. I am a product of a welfare state that quite literally fed me and housed me and clothed me at points in my life.”
However, he went on: “I also know that that the answer to child poverty, ultimately, is not simply about handouts, it is about a social security safety net, that also acts as a springboard that helps people into work and with good work that makes the cost of living affordable for everyone.
“That means that if you aren't doing the right thing, and earning a living and playing by the rules, that you don't just have enough to make ends meet, but you have enough to do the things that make life worth living. And we’re some way from that from that now. “
He also repeated the message that the state of public debt and lack of money will tie Labour’s hands.’
It’s the same old Tory excuses. There’s no money left, the Tories have trashed the public finances, we can’t just print money and hand it out, despite acknowledging his upbringing, he also by his own admission there, says there should be no handouts and people should do the right thing and help people into work. Not everyone can work. How you treat them, is how society should be judged.
It isn’t even true that there is no money left, it’s just that Labour won’t spend, because that would require more tax and with the tax burden on ordinary working class people already too high, that would mean taxing wealth, taxing donors and that’s why Rachel Reeves won’t do it. The new Tory Party, of the rich, for the rich, when they are supposed to be for the ordinary working class.
Streeting is rancid, his views are rancid, his attitude is rancid, his opinion on benefits so right wing, so very rancid, but equally this guy is coming for the NHS next, plans to privatise more of it, good little Tory boy that he actually is and wrote in the Murdoch Scum no less, that anyone opposed to his plans are a bunch of rotten middle class lefties! Weirdly it’s working class people most at risk of not being able to afford healthcare Wesley, find out all about that in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.