In his first major interview since becoming prime minister, Andy Burnham admitted to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the nation’s welfare bill has to be reduced.

And he made it clear that going forward certain benefits, including mental health support, will become “conditional” on people taking work and not staying at home.

Terrible. Seems like I will still be able to call Labour under Burnham "Forced Labour".

Anyone worth their salt will tell you that we need to make it easier to get benefits. Hell, the recent Timms Review found that disability benefits were degrading and dehumanizing to apply for. Making care conditional on work is insane, and Burnham needs to realize this was one of Starmer's biggest failures.

Stop trying to take money away from disabled people. Why don't you try taking money away from people that don't need it. The rich. The fact Labour leadership is not doing this shows they are either corrupt or cowards.

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Labour is going to get a lot of disabled people killed it seems, it has chosen them as the scape goat and is blaming them for the nations finances. Its disgraceful open bigotry.

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    Because if you boil it down to the bare basics, those the country is in hock to; those that run the investment funds that own the country's debt, as well as most of it's essential services (power, water/sanitation, transport, etc.) have the entire country held hostage.

    They simply threaten to melt the country down if the status quo isn't protected.

    Every single person's pension/savings/entire life's worth is dependant on these people not fucking everyone over. The actual country's debt is in the same hands.

    Shy of complete a meltdown and reset they have complete control over how the country is run, which is why things are the way the are.

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