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Patrick Blower @blowercartoons on #NigelFarage promising to end #TwoChildCap #JeremyCorbyn @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Reform just leading Labour around by the dick I see...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/27/half-of-red-wall-voters-disapprove-of-labours-handing-of-benefits-says-poll

#Labour #ReformUK #UKPOL #UKpolitics #TwoChildCap #Austerity #Poverty #Fascism

Just as fat Boyz Boris drops the 4th of his second team The Desperate keith kid starver helps with his family budget as
The party formerly X Labour looks set to drop the two-child benefit cap—but at what cost?

Delays to the child poverty strategy and leaked memos raise tough questions: will Labour pay for this long-overdue reform by cutting other essential support?

Read the full analysis on Vox Political.

#Labour #ChildPoverty #TwoChildCap #WelfareReform #AusterityByStealth #AngelaRayner #LizKendall

https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=98279

It's just kids after all Keir, it's not the bigot voters or the Donors....the really important ones. /s

#KeirStarmer #Starmer #Poverty #UKPOL #UKPolitics #TwoChildCap #Labour

What would it cost to stop this? Would it break the country? No.
But Labour are a Tory Party so the Poor MUST suffer or how will the rapidly decreasing Middle Class know they are better than others?
"Somebody shits on me, but I shit on you, and that's how British Society will arrange itself until Humanity dies out"

#Labour #Austerity #UKPOL #UKpolitics #TwoChildCap

3hago 12.24 BST
Labour has pulled 30,000 more children into poverty by not
scrapping two-child benefit cap, charity says
Labour's refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap has pulled 30,000 more
children into poverty since the general election, the Child Poverty Action
Group has said.
The charity published the calculation as Liz Kendall, the work and pensions
secretary, said that she would regard it as a personal failure if child poverty is
not falling by the time of the next general election.
Last week the Department for Work and Pensions published figures showing
that 250,000 more people, including 50,000 more children, will be pushed
into poverty by the sickness and disability benefit cuts announced in the
spring statement.
Introduced by the Tories, the two-child cap means that parents do not get
universal credit child allowance, or tax credits, for a third child born after
April 2017.

The policy is seen by expert as a a major contributor to child poverty. Polling
suggests voters favour the cap, but most Labour MPs want to see it scrapped,
and many are disappointed that has not happened already.

In a news release, CPAG said that other interventions to reduce child poverty
would fail without the cap also being removed. It explained:

AA This is because as the two-child limit applies to third or subsequent children
born after April 2017, it is effectively still being rolled out, with more and more
children affected every day. This means the policy acts as a brake on any
alternative steps government may take. The number of children affected by the
policy will continue to increase until 2035 when the first children born under
the two-child limit turn 18.

Every day 109 more children are pulled into poverty by the policy.

CPAG’s analysis finds that on the eighth anniversary of the two-child limit
(Sunday 6 April), an estimated 30,000 more children will have been pulled into
poverty by the policy since the government took office.

CPAG has published details of its analysis here.

In its manifesto Labour said it would “develop an ambitious strategy to
reduce child poverty”. A child poverty taskforce has been set up by the
government, and it is due to publish its strategy this spring.

In an interview with the i published today, Kendall refused to commit to
lifting the two-child benefit cap. But she said:

44 We've got a clear manifesto commitment to tackle poverty and drive child
poverty down and that is what we will deliver. Child poverty will be going
down.

Asked if she would regard it as a personal failure if child poverty rates are
rising at the time of the next election, she replied: “Yes.”

@JackTheCat

Is that just the extra payments? They need to offset the savings in healthcare, poor education outcomes, etc., of feeding the children better and providing a better environment for them.

#TwoChildCap

@ChrisMayLA6

Governments routinely find money for wars, for corporate bailouts, for overspends ...because it is "right" to do so.

That is exactly why #Labour should end the #TwoChildCap immediately.

@patrickhadfield @MadeyeTheCarnaptious The members of the UK #Labour party support all sorts of things -- from support for #Palestine through #NuclearDisarmament and #WealthTax to an end to the #TwoChildCap -- that their leaders do not, and will not ever, support.

The two-child benefit cap punishes the poorest families and worsens child poverty. If the government is serious about creating a better future, it needs to be abolish it now. Calix Eden reports.
#EndChildPoverty #TwoChildCap #FightForChange

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare/why-we-must-fight-the-disastrous-two-child-benefit-cap-now/

@alanferrier
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Now is always the time to make strategic, long-term savings changes.

First up should be ending the #TwoChildCap to slash child poverty costs. Next should be providing credit to councils for more #SocialHousing.

@ChrisMayLA6
I'm loathe to defend Labour's go slow approach to #TaxTheRich , but let's be fair. We are all still feeling the pain from Truss/Kwarteng's "bold" taxation changes.

The big money players are easily spooked. So, like a horse, it's best approached slowly.

Unfortunately, that means the poor are left to suffer the most.

If it were me, I'd make 1-2 immediate actions (eg repeal #TwoChildCap) and let debt rise a bit - adding pressure for new wealth taxes.

Researchers from the universities of Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle have shown for the first time the extraordinary impact that reducing child poverty with measures such as ditching the two-child benefit cap could have in England.
Tackling it would substantially cut the number of infant deaths and children in care, as well as rates of childhood nutritional anaemia and emergency admissions.

#ChildPoverty #InfantDeaths #Healthcare #Benefits #TwoChildCap #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/07/ditching-two-child-benefit-cap-would-cut-deaths-and-ae-admissions-study-says

@ChrisMayLA6
It's not hard to see which policies are actually "family friendly"

A) punish the poor with large families via the #TwoChildCap w #Tories

Or

B) Punish the wealthy by taking away a tax break when sending their child private w #Labour

Eventual annual cost of ending the #TwoChildCap : £3 billion
Cost of 4 #NuclearSubmarines:
£31 billion (govt figures), i.e 10 years of missing benefits.

Editorial Seven against Starmer stand firm: a turning point for Labour’s socialist wing? | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/seven-against-starmer-stand-firm-a-turning-point-for-labour-socialist-wing
#MagnificentSeven #Labour #UKPolitics

Labour laid bare.

@BellaCaledonia

#ChildPoverty #TwoChildCap #poverty #Labour #RedTories #SirKidStarver #politics #VoteSNP #ScottishIndependence

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/07/24/labour-lies/

"Prior to the election, many Labour MPs and supporters, like me, were really pleased to see a commitment to introducing an anti-poverty strategy. Our argument was that scrapping the cap could be the first significant step in the strategy."

My vote was a plea for #Labour to tackle child poverty. Its response? To suspend me | #JohnMcDonnell | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/24/labour-rebellion-child-poverty-two-child-cap-john-mcdonnell
#TwoChildCap

The SNP holding Labour to account there, if they didn't press on the Two Child Cap then Starmer would never mention it and hope we'd all forget.

#UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Labour #TwoChildCap

Keir Starmer dodges questions on two-child
benefit cap in first PMQs as prime minister -
UK politics live
Labour leader quizzed by SNP on benefit cap after
suspending seven Labour MPs over their stance on the issue

@bampot
I really don't understand why #Labour has needed months to come up with a financial model to end the #TwoChildCap

It is self-evident that reducing child poverty will avoid far more costs than lifting the cap.

The principle of funding commitments is a sound one. But just do the maths and let's go.

Three weeks ago: "Change and Hope"
Today: Shut up and do as you are told

#UKpol #UKpolitics #Labour #TwoChildCap

“Labour suspends seven rebels who voted to scrap two-child benefit cap.” In this world you don’t get a lot of praise or support for doing the right thing. #Labour #twochildcap

#TwoChildCap

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