@lbc: Ex-Labour spokesperson James Matthewson and Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke butt heads over the Tories' plan to cut £36bn off the welfare bill. #welfare #benefits #ukpolitics #uknews #lbc

Martyn Petrie :

The delay for treatment is so long on the NHS I've used my PIP to go private just to get rest bite from the pain.

chris45758 :

You know the quickest way to cut the benefit bill whilst not impacting the poorest in society is means testing pensions.

Caitlin CarterReilly :

Thank you so much for this. I work, I actually own business specialising in foot health care for those with diabetes, dementia and developmental disabilities. Personally I’m losing the ability to walk and care for myself. I get pip. I physically couldn’t work harder

only me :

[Tears of joy][Tears of joy] I’ll at least six people are on PIP are absolutely fine It’s just become a free for all it’s Labourer

user9665719865507 :

Something has to be done

urbash55 :

I’ve got a nail in my boot. And get nothing 🥺🤷‍♀️

tony norman :

its about time tbh

Travel Millionaire 💸🤑🌸 :

S :

It's just a way to top up wages and the crafty people get it and the honest plod on.

Ainzooalgown🇲🇹🇪🇺🇮🇹🇬🇧 :

young adults!? the vast majority on pip are not young!

Julie Dale :

They always pick on the disabled. What about the amount off money the MPs and government get from expenses, travel, second house's, private pension all paid by hardworking taxpayers money

tracey A :

Disability benefits and welfare support are already extremely low, and disability benefits like pip have suffered from years of underfunding. Further cuts and austerity measures are not the answer or the solution. They will not improve disabled people’s lives, tackle poverty or remove the barriers disabled people face. What we need is proper investment, better support, greater accessibility and a welfare system that actually meets people’s needs rather than pushing them further into hardship.

Irish6565 :

Pip needs a massive reform and it’s pretty evident

Mandy Taylor :

Have you heard that they’re saying a seven year-old shouldn’t be told disabled and given a benefit now?

𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔞 :

Everyone demonising the young disabled people, pip isn’t an out of work benefit, you have to be pretty severely effected to get the elements of pip, I’ve been disabled my whole life, I have a genetic disorder, and went through so much medical gaslighting that I didn’t have a problem because I was young and must just be lazy if you can’t do the same as your peers, it took me until I was 31 for get a firm diagnosis and someone to take me seriously, so if they’ve got the medical evidence for pip it’s an absolute non issue

taekwondaz :

Cut ALL benefits for MP's first! They earn way above the threshold for entitlement to benefits! It should be illegal! It would be for everyone else!

Albertooooo :

Why should a millionaire claim PIP?

DangVarmint 🇬🇧 :

Unable to criticise the right wing on this app any longer, two anti tory comments removed in the last day.

F THE LEFT :

Abusing the system is what it’s called.

Beadie :

Benifits for severe disability only . Everyone else has a duty and a responsibility to get work and provide for themselves.

pattmyne :

The welfare bill needs slashing. Two child benefit cap should be reintroduced. PIP paid in vouchers and not cash. No booze, fags or vapes.

andrewws0 :

Stop all benefits for these grifters .

Newcastle one :

Kemi Badenoch actually wisely declined to endorse a candidate in the 2024 US Presidential election, if I remember correctly. Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman all endorsed Trump, with Farage claiming he'll "make the world a safer place". After Trump won, Badenoch must have felt that she was missing out, so she regularly explained that Britain should follow Trump's lead. And so she, along with Farage, both explicitly endorsed this (attempted) regime change war of choice in the Middle East. They are both unfit for office. And the newspapers which proclaimed that Brexit would be glorious, Theresa May was the new Iron Lady, Boris Johnson would be a spectacular leader, Liz Truss's mini-Budget was an economic masterpiece and that the Labour government was doing something terrible in refusing to join the war should never be listened to again.The Tories talk of cuts to welfare benefits and social security. This is the party who created the "rape clause." Tories have no integrity, there is no humanity - they do not even consider how cruel their policies are. The welfare is not crushing the economy this is untrue. What has crushed the economy is Tories, is tge rightwingers who bu the way would have joined with Trump to wage war on Iran. Meaning the world would be in a worse place now. Tories need to get rid of their so called leader and disband if you can't rationalise and reason and show any sense of integrity and rationality and care for Britain.am sure that the US resident Daily Mail columnist Dick Littlejohn will still be as ashamed to be British as he was back in February when it did not immediately join the US / Israeli war on Iran. As for Farage? Well you just know that he is wrong about everything.Nor was there any acknowledgement that cutting benefits by up to £10,000 per household might create further costs. Penny-wise and pound-foolish again. 14 years in government and they still haven't learned.Still no apology from Captain Kemi for 14 years of economic failure, she is not to be taken seriously when she comes out with classics like 'double amputees run marathons'. She demeans the position of leader of the opposition.Another pop

Questionbug :

The quickest way to sort the benefits issue out. Is to remove them from foreign nationals. Foreign nationals should be working and paying their way. Why are we paying 16 Billion a year in Universal credit to foreign nationals? If I move to USA or EU can I claim benefits? No I can't. so therefore neither should they. Only British people should have access to benefits. British people are the main people paying in! No more!