I was unemployed earlier in the year. it was fucking awesome. i was rolling in it. Actual cash was low because generations of people have taken the fucking piss but the non-cash stuff was excellent.
I say this also as someone who has a couple of physical disabilities (one minor, one major). The job centre were fuckign excellent, I got a ton of help and this was under a Tory Government. Can someone explain to me exactly how they were "fucking over the disabled and unemployed" when being unemployed and disabled was a fucking doddle for me?
For comparison the only other time I was on JSA was in 2013, and I was living in Glasgow, so it was effectively the Job Centre under the SNP. And that was appalling - my first appointment, a group of 20 of us there for first time were taken into a room, sat down, and told "we don't care what you want from life. We don't care what you want to do. You will apply for every job you see, and you will take the first job you get, otherwise we will sanction your benefits and you will have no money".
So again, please tell me how the JCP under a Tory government was "fucking over the disabled and unemployed".I am gagging to know.
Edited to get back on-topic: People are rightly fucked off at Labour because they've gone and done something even the Tories found unconscionable, all the while claiming on the one hand, there's no money, but on the other, blowing millions a week on housing, caring for and lining the pockets of people who have lied to get into the country, with no aims of integrating or working, and who have passed through several safe countries in order to do so. And then, when people raise concerns about this, they crack down on them and treat them far more harsly, meteing out far more severe penalties than to those given to, say, the Roma migrants in Harehills, Leeds, who burned shit down because some kids from their community were taken into care because their Mother was battering them.