It is time to tax the super-rich instead of making poor people poorer.

As expected, Labour’s budget statement has confirmed the devastating social security cuts that many already feared, and has even added in some new ones nobody was expecting.

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have chosen to throw a quarter of a million more people into poverty, including 50,000 children.

It’s no secret that disabled people are those most immediately in line for the hardship that will follow.

With a third of disabled people already in relative or absolute poverty, many disabled rights activists have gone to the streets to protest this cruel cut.

This isn’t about getting people back into work.

Some of the payments being cut are the ones that help with the extra costs of disability and make it possible for people to work.

This will make it harder.

And for those not in work now, but who want to, what they often need is the positive, practical help that’s just not there.

Making people poorer won’t increase their chances of getting jobs, overcome the challenges they face in their working lives or respect........

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