"Stride may not be aware of the irony of a former work and pensions secretary moaning about years of spiralling benefits bills, but everyone else in the chamber certainly was…

"…Then again, Angela didn’t sound as if her heart was totally in it, either. She’s professional enough to parrot the party line more or less convincingly, but the Ange of a few years ago would have been one of the first to man the barricades against the welfare bill. We weren’t quite in gritted teeth territory, but not far off. Still, things could have been worse. She could have been the work and pensions secretary. "

#UKPolitics
#PMQs
#DisabilityBenefits

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/25/a-week-off-from-pmqs-cant-save-starmer-from-awkward-questions-over-welfare-bill

Lib Dem MP urges Rayner to U-turn on incoming cuts to #benefits at #PMQs - Invidious https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8Yw1QNA6DnU

#corbyn at #Pmqs today

"Yesterday, 86 people were killed in #Gaza by #Israeli forces. A further 56 were shot dead whilst queueing for food, trying to sustain themselves under the occupation of these forces. Israel stands condemned of acts of genocide, of war crimes, the occupation of Gaza and their activities in the West Bank. So two points to the Deputy PM: why does Britain still supply parts for the f-35 jets that are being used and...

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Neil O'brien (Con) talks about boundary changes at today's #Pmqs, saying "local people don't want them"

Rayner comically replies, " One thing I do know is they don't want you. No, not you. Your party. You have slipped through the net somehow."

😃

Face to face assessments often cause added distress to people going through the assessment phase for universal credit and PIP #DisabilityBenefits #DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareReformBill #Politicslive #PMQs

Debbie Abrahams, the MP for Oldham is her usual impressive self

#PMQs

Mel Stride asks Angela Rayner at today's #PMQs why, when it comes to the #welfareRefornBill, "She thinks she is right and 122 are wrong"

AR reels off rehearsed lines

MS asks "will the vote go ahead?"

AR "We will go ahead on Tuesday"

MS then asks for 2 of 3 Tory conditions. "We will help if you can commit to reducing welfare bill & getting people back to work. Can you make that commitment right now yes or no?"

She does not make that commitment

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60 £Billion for defence spending Up to a £45 million budget and possibly more for a memorial to the late Queen And yet we’re told we have to have cuts for disabled people claiming #DisabilityBenefits Shameful #WelfareReformBill #PMQs #politicslive #TakingThePIP

Stride gets all catty at today's #PMQs when he says "it is great to see the honourable lady standing in for the Prime Minister for the second week running; although I know there are many behind her who would welcome that arrangement to he permanent"

Oh dear #CardboardBoy won't be at today's #PMQs so can't promise Kemi anything for to shore up the ##welfareRefornBill

Is #Starmer going to stand at the despatch box tomorrow and promise to cut the size of the welfare state to get #Conservative support for the hated #welfarereformbill?

That may be his Poll Tax Moment if he does that.

Crossing of the Rubicon

I shall watch #PMQS with assidious attention to see what happens xxx

#PMQs:

These monsters in parliament DO NOT care abt victims of #groominggangs, do NOT care abt us young people who deal with the housing market, do NOT care abt the #housingcrisis, #childpoverty, etc

Their obsession is about hatred for #immigrants of colour and who (🟥 or 🟦 ) is more effective at being #xenophobic.

#UKShitShow

My understanding has been that most #groominggangs are racialised as 'white'.

#YvetteCooper can fuck off with the need to focus on the so called 'race' of perpetrators.

There are other ways to investigate and find patterns to committing these disgusting crimes.

Yeah, the obsession with whether these monsters are one colour or another, whether they are immigrants or not is... RACIST!!!

#UKShitShow #ImmigrantLivesMatter
#GroomingGangsAreMostlyWHITE

#PMQs

On refugee week, a report from the Green party that sees that immigrants need support rather than victimisation is long overdue

raised at PMQs

#refugees #PMQs #bbcpolitics

https://carladenyer.co.uk/no-way-home/

Edward Leigh (con) at today's #Pmqs says "Have not the overwhelming majority of #Palestinian people got the right to have peace and security in their own homeland as the Jews have yearned for security in their own homeland for 2,000 years?"

Rayner says settler violence in the west bank and in #Gaza is appaling, and we will do everything we can to make that happen

Which is actually nothing at all, really

At today's #PMQs, Daisy Cooper reminded the house that "Today the government is set to cut #PIP and Carers Allowance and that 1.3 million people are at the risk of losing some support. So can the Deputy Prime Minister, hand on heart, say this was they change that the #disabled people were promised?"

Rayner crassly replies that "Labour is the part of work, and we have vowed to get Britian working again"

Daisy Cooper (Lib) asks for an assurance at today's #Pmqs that "if President Trump does go to war today's Labour Party will not blindly follow him again"

Rayner - who it seems does not have the authority to reply - says, "We have been consistent in asking Syria to engage in diplomatic relations"

A non answer

Again

Now Angela Rayner has promised to read the report at #PMQs, you don’t want to be out of the loop, do you? 👀 Read it for yourself right here: carladenyer.co.uk/no-way-home/

Brilliant @carladenyer.bsky.social at #PMQs 👏👏 This Refugee Week, let’s remember: Welcome & compassion are core British values 🙏❤️ But our solidarity with people forced from their homes is undermined by politics of hatred & the failing Home Office - it’s time for radical change!

Apparently, according to some Labour supporters, you’re still supposed to vote Labour if you claim #DisabilityBenefits despite them being cut. Unbelievable.🤷🏻‍♂️ #TakingThePIP #PMQs #PoliticsLive