Chaminda Jayanetti
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits - these days mainly for the Observer, Big Issue and Politics Home. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
- Care work is a migration route that is desperately needed, has helped at least stem the sector's recruitment crisis, has a knock-on effect on A&E/ambulance wait times, and isn't particularly unpopular voters. yeah let's hammer it
- Reposted by Chaminda JayanettiWe have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too. Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- This is like reading one of those horrific VAW miscarriages of justice from 30 years ago www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Chaminda JayanettiDisability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show
- Reposted by Chaminda JayanettiIt is a political choice to plunge 700,000 families deeper into poverty by the end of this parliament, as a result of the disability benefit cuts. This will be devastating for low-income families who are already struggling to make ends meet. 1/3
- NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Chaminda JayanettiSome will say that Badenoch was simply telling porkies, but I think more likely, frankly, that she simply wasn't across the detail of the trade deal enough to know:
- NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Chaminda Jayanetti🚨 NEW: Israel has a strategy to destroy civil order in Gaza — it involves backing armed looters and assassinating civil workers. Read @mondoweiss.net's full investigative report: mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...
- Reposted by Chaminda JayanettiWhere has the Labour & Tory vote gone here? Labour 2024: Still Lab 47% Don’t know 14% Lib Dem 10% Reform 9% Greens 9% Will not vote 5% Con 3% SNP 1% Con 2024: Con 54% Reform 26% (!) DK 11% LD 3% Lab 2% Green 1% WNV 1% Put simply, this is how Farage becomes Prime Minister. But a long way to go.
- Reform UK record their highest ever poll rating in YouGov's latest Westminster voting intention, while the Tories and Labour are at their lowest since 2019 Ref: 29% (+3 from 27-28 Apr) Lab: 22% (-1) Con: 17% (-3) Lib Dem: 16% (+1) Green: 10% (+1) SNP: 3% (=) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
- More than one in three councils are taking new measures to slash spending on home-to-school transport for children with SEND, sparking fears more vulnerable pupils will be left with hour-long school drop-offs. By me, for @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/the-long-and...
