The Welfare of the Labor Party’s rebellion shows the policy that always causes politics to politics

Good morning. The rebellion against planned care discounts continues to work. How much trouble in the government? Very little, I would like to say. Some ideas about it below.

Death with a thousand pieces

One hundred and eight working deputies They signed their names To a logical amendment by Meg Hillier, Chairman of the Treasury Committee, would refuse to pass the planned cuts of the government to luxury. The importance is sports – more than 83 deputies will have to rebel to defeat the government – and the political, in that List of the two sites Members of each of the traditions of work and factions include.

Both give the revolution a greater momentum and defense: voting against it no longer represents A) an unequivocal gesture or b) alignment only with “hard -line critics and serial appearances”, and one of the MP of the Labor Party has put me on a former rebellion. The latter relates to some ambitious deputies.

Before a vote next week – the first major legislative conflict in this measure – the government still has a number of cards it can play, not the least of which is the damage to the status if you lose the vote, and the possibility looming on the horizon in the autumn autumn.

But the big problem for the government remains: While Labor Party representatives support most of the planned social welfare reforms (the path that has been changed to work for the prosecutors outside the work, the new approach to younger people, etc.), most of them do not believe that there are any justifications for changes in personal payments. ”

In fact, this opinion is shared by the country, according to the latest voting through more common denominators. The survey indicates that most voters want the government to contrary to the planned PIP discounts, which they believe are primarily a procedure to save money.

As I said before, one of the reasons for all this is: this is true! The government is right to be concerned that the UK is now spending on the benefits (except for pensions) as it did during the financial crisis, although it is less effective in reducing need than it was at that time. But most of the cuts in government spending do nothing to solve this problem – they are only some somewhat arbitrary and harsh changes on the eligibility of some disabled people.

Under the proposals, the owners of the claim need to score four or more points for at least one of the activities of “daily life” to qualify for this component of the PIP. The new requirements for PIP targeting are designed for “those who have higher needs”, but this may exclude those who are currently qualifying to collect low grades through multiple activities. For example, the individual who needs help to wash his hair or body below the waist (two points), wearing his lower clothes (two points), preparing a simple meal (two points), and managing the toilet needs (two points) will not meet the limit of the new one activity, despite the overall total result.

It is not clear why the person who needs help to get out of the bathroom or bathing will be able to claim less if he can wash himself under the waist but not above. When you face the details of government proposals, most people wear them.

Whatever happens next week, this is a reminder of an old truth: in the end, politics is attached to politics. Even if the government “if it is” increasingly large “get rid of the rebellion, then there will be a change in the approach sooner or later.

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