- Almost 50 MPs to rebel over welfare cuts as Labour revolt grows ahead of key vote The government's own impact assessment on the plans estimates that 250,000 people will be pushed into relative poverty www.itv.com/news/2025-05...May 14, 2025 15:56
- Cut MPs benefits first.
- Good on the MPs with a spine. Imagine looking at a plan that knowingly shoves 250,000 people into poverty and thinking, “Yes, this is governance.” At this point, it’s not a safety net—it’s a trapdoor. Cut the cruelty, not the welfare.
- They ran on a manifesto of "We're not Tories!" and haven't even been able to manage that much.
- They'll mostly, pointlessly abstain.
- Life long Labour supporter but not any longer
