With the government’s announcement of billions of £s worth of cuts to the social security system, austerity continues as it has done for the last 15 years.
Meanwhile the government continues to spend money on so called investments in infrastructure, energy and building non-social housing all of which will ultimately just end up enabling the rich to gain even more wealth. It plans to spend many billions more on so called ‘defence’ spending as well. Which will also simply transfer more wealth into the hands of the rich owners of arms companies.
The faint justification of the government, for cutting social security, of trying to ‘get people into work’ is a PR dodge cooked up by Labour spin doctors.
If the government really wanted to encourage more people into work, they could do the following:
- Listen to disabled people, sick people and social security claimants about what they need.
- Increase the minimum wage to at least £16/hour to combat decades of stagnation in real wage growth.
- Properly combat the NHS waiting lists for treatment.
- Go much further in reforming workplace practises and repeal all anti-trade union laws.
- Make all education free and expand it.
- Create jobs by expanding education, taking more action on climate change, improving and expanding all public services, and restoring local council funding.
And pay for it all by reforming the entire tax and financial system of the country to place emphasis on taxing the wealth and incomes of the richest.
Here is an example of the wealth the richest posses from an article by Oxfam:
“In 2024, the number of billionaires rose to 2,769, up from 2,565 in 2023. Their combined wealth surged from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in just 12 months. This is the second-largest annual increase in billionaire wealth since records began. The wealth of the world’s ten richest men grew on average by almost $100 million a day and even if they lost 99 per cent of their wealth overnight, they would remain billionaires.”[1]
Whilst billions of human beings struggle to live in abject poverty and lacking the essentials of a decent life and millions prematurely die every year.
It is plainly clear that the idea of any human being a millionaire, let alone a billionaire, should become as extinct as the dinosaurs.
But the governments cuts to the social security system is nothing at all to do with helping working class people. Its about shoring up the government’s finances without daring to go after the wealth of the rich.
The Labour Party is truly, as it has been for a while now, just a capitalist party. It is a rotting corpse that any person who calls themselves a socialist, a trade unionist, working class or indeed progressive and principled should abandon.
We should unite and build a new working-class party. A party which should base itself around a socialist programme.
Abolish the rich not public services!
The entire working class must unite and build a better future for us all!
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