Wes Streeting explains why Labour disagrees with Suella Braverman over scrapping two child benefit cap

> He said: “I think that the answer on child poverty is all about social security. Of course, that’s part of it. I grew up on a council estate with a single mum, and often the benefit system put food in the fridge and money in the electric meter. I am a product of a welfare state that quite literally fed me and housed me and clothed me at points in my life.”

> However, he went on: “I also know that that the answer to child poverty, ultimately, is not simply about handouts, it is about a social security safety net, that also acts as a springboard that helps people into work and with good work that makes the cost of living affordable for everyone.

> “That means that if you aren’t doing the right thing, and earning a living and playing by the rules, that you don’t just have enough to make ends meet, but you have enough to do the things that make life worth living. And we’re some way from that from that now. “

What the fuck is he even on about? Benefits *are* part of that social security net, yet he’s using this very right-wing framing of presenting them as ‘handouts’. Also baffling how brazen he is to admit that he personally benefitted from the more liberal benefits system under New Labour, but is quite happy to pull up that ladder behind him.

Like what’s ‘doing the right thing’ here Wes? Somehow unbirthing your third child?

Imagine being further to the right on this than Suella fucking Braverman, Christ…

The only chance this country has of a future is a if we scrap fptp and bring in proportional representation. Sadly neither of the big parties will ever do that.

Streeting not be an arse challenge failed…again. 

We’re Nicola Murray dropping opposition to policies so toxic the coalition didn’t keep them levels of just….this…from Labour. 

We really are into Lewis Carroll territory now: not so much ‘Wonderland’ as ‘Through the Looking Glass’.

If the likes of Starmer and Reeves are only half as bad as they make themselves out to be, the Labour Party itself will soon be finished as a political entity.

Politics in the UK – as across the whole political spectrum – is in a massive state of flux. Those tutonic plates are a movin’, and are moving rapidly to either heavy right, or moderate left.

There really is no room for Streetings bullshit. The centrist’s centrist. What an absolute anal passage this former council house dweller is. The worst of all tories – a snobby, arrogant, deeply conceited nob-head if ever there was one…Grrrr!

Your children have to suffer so that Labour sounds good to the right wing press.

After all – it is not like they are as important as the career of Labour politicians.

It’s not surprising if you’re old enough to remember old Labour, they were always tough on benefit claimants and especially tough on unemployed, a job is a job, didn’t matter if you were a town clerk and had to work as a cleaner (both respectful jobs btw), then so be it, ” he who shall not work neither will he eat”is a communist saying.

Handouts? Tax credit is social security and he has no business in any future government if her doesn’t understand the basics of governing.

Should be noted about wes streeting is that his father never took benefits when he was very much eligible and was ‘proud’ of it

So, anyone else certain Wes Streeting stalks the nightime backstreets of London, a bottle of meths in his pocket, looking for sleeping homeless people to set on fire?

The one thing I agree with Wes Streeting with, even though he sucks off Big pharma.

God almighty he needs to go.

He is litterally a Tory in a red tie.

Wants to sell of the NHS.. And now this? Wanker.