The overseas aid budget has already been cut by six billion pounds, to 0.3 per cent of Gross National Income by 2027, and the reason given has been to boost defence spending. Yesterday’s resignations made it clear that it had done no such thing. So, like the cuts to sickness and disability benefits, where has that money gone?
No Conservative Minister, including those who were now members of Reform UK, resigned over defence cuts, and no one has resigned from this Government over its failure to implement the Labour manifesto commitments to abolish leasehold, to make employment rights begin with employment and apply regardless of the number of hours worked, and to equalise the national minimum wage regardless of age. But for no possible reason except to launch a Leadership bid, rumour has it that Yvette Cooper is on resignation watch.
Cooper is evil. She introduced the intentionally mass murderous Work Capability Assessment. And in power or out of it, the North East remains a major centre of the right-wing machine within the Labour Party, so Cooper kept me in prison twice as long as I should have been. That cannot have made me anything special. It is just what she is. Anything could happen when the pint of the present party system was poured into the half pint pot of First Past the Post, and I may be no fan of Reform, but if it really did take Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, then it would have done the nation a favour.
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