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#ToriesGone448
#NeverToryAgain
#NeverReform
#NeverFarage
#NoDOGEUK

#Labour #Change
#ChildPovertyIsCriminal
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

#ScrapTwoChildBenefitCap to tackle Poverty, Ministers to recommend to Starmer
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Lift two-child benefit cap to tackle poverty, ministers to recommend to Starmer

The recommendations from the child poverty taskforce are expected before the autumn budget on November 26, although it has been repeatedly delayed.

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September 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM Everybody can reply

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#ToriesGone364

#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#NoDisabilityCuts

🇺🇸 🇸🇪 #FundUNRWA
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JC releases statement following Zarah Sultana’s resignation from Labour

"Together, we can create something that is desperately missing from our broken Political System: hope"
leftfootforward.org/2025/07/jere...

Jeremy Corbyn releases statement following Zarah Sultana’s resignation from Labour

"Together, we can create something that is desperately missing from our broken political system: hope."

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July 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM Everybody can reply

Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

Good Morning Sedley 👋

Precisely!

It doesn't have to be this way!
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#ChildPovertyIsCriminal

#Labour #Change
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#TaxTheSuperRich

#ToriesGone409

August 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM Everybody can reply

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#ToriesGone189

#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#EndChildPoverty

Will Labour’s New #ChildPoverty strategy exclude Migrant Children?

UK Govt must eliminate harmful Home Office Policies if it really cares about ending Child Poverty

Minnie Rahman

08/01/25
www.opendemocracy.net/en/starmer-l...

Will Labour’s child poverty unit exclude migrant children?

The UK government must eliminate harmful Home Office policies if it really cares about ending child poverty

www.opendemocracy.net

January 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

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Good Morning M

Absolutely 💯%!

It makes no economic sense to delay the lifting of the #2ChildLimit! It would immediately lift 💯's of 1000's of Children above the Poverty Line, and would give the Economy a Boost!
#ChildPovertyIsCriminal
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#TaxTheSuperRich

#ToriesGone324

May 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM Everybody can reply

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@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone301

#Labour #Change
#WinterFuelPayments
#WinterKills
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#DisabilityBenefits
#AusterityKills
#TaxTheSuperRich

#StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🍉

Labour Mayor WARNS Starmer to listen to Voters after narrow Win over Reform
leftfootforward.org/2025/05/labo...

Labour mayor warns Keir Starmer to listen to voters after narrow win over Reform

‘The results here tonight demonstrate that they need to be listening to the man, woman and businesses on the street’

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May 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesLegacy
#DecimatedPublicServices
#ChildPoverty
#InWorkPoverty
#GenerationRent
Record
#ChildHomelessness
#ToriesGone169

#Labour #Change
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

More than 56,000 Primary School Children in England will be Homeless at Christmas
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

More than 56,000 primary school children in England will be homeless this Christmas

A key charity warns of the heartbreaking number of children who will be homeless this Christmas as the government pledges an extra £1bn funding for accommodation

www.independent.co.uk

December 21, 2024 at 2:58 PM Everybody can reply

Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesLegacy
#DecimatedPublicServices
#ChildPoverty
#InWorkPoverty
#GenerationRent
Record
#ChildHomelessness
#ToriesGone170

#Labour #Change
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

More than 56,000 Primary School Children in England will be Homeless at Christmas

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

More than 56,000 primary school children in England will be homeless this Christmas

A key charity warns of the heartbreaking number of children who will be homeless this Christmas as the government pledges an extra £1bn funding for accommodation

www.independent.co.uk

December 22, 2024 at 12:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

Good Morning Sedley

Absolutely!

Prem Sikka pointed out earlier, that the Richest 1% of the UK Population, own more Wealth than 70% of the Population combined!
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#ChildPovertyIsCriminal
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#SaveWFA
#TaxTheSuperRich
##WindfallTaxNow

#ToriesGone318

May 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM Everybody can reply

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@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone352

#Labour #Change
#ChildPovertyIsCriminal
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

SNP to #EndTwoChildBenefitCap, as pressure mounts on Labour to do the same

"Families can't wait any longer, they've waited for the UK Govt & there's been no action"
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/snp-...

SNP to end two-child benefit cap, as pressure mounts on Labour to do the same

"Families can't wait any longer, they've waited for the UK government and there's been no action."

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June 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

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#ToriesGone409

#Labour #Change
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#TaxTheSuperRich

'Scrap Tory 2-Child Benefit Limit to lift Kids out Poverty' - Neil Kinnock - he said the Tories had left the Country in a state that would 'make Charles Dickens furious' with 'intolerable' Hardship
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Scrap Tory two-child benefit limit to lift kids out poverty

In an interview with The Mirror, the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said the Tories had left the country in a state that would 'make Charles Dickens furious' with 'intolerable' hardship

www.mirror.co.uk

August 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone188

#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#EndChildPoverty

Will Labour’s New #ChildPoverty strategy exclude Migrant Children?

UK Govt must eliminate harmful Home Office Policies if it really cares about ending Child Poverty

By Minnie Rahman

08/01/25
www.opendemocracy.net/en/starmer-l...

Will Labour’s child poverty unit exclude migrant children?

The UK government must eliminate harmful Home Office policies if it really cares about ending child poverty

www.opendemocracy.net

January 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone341

#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#NoDisabilityCuts
#FundAllPublicServices
#NoAusterity
#TaxTheSuperRich
#RejoinTheEU

#NeverReform

#SpendingReview: Extra Funding for #PublicServices welcomed but Labour urged to reverse #DisabilityBenefit Cuts
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/spen...

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June 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM Everybody can reply

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#ToriesGone144

#ChildPovertyIsCriminal
#CorporateGreed
#InWorkPoverty
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

Currently, 4.3m Children in the UK Live in POVERTY, with 1m experiencing DESTITUTION, with 100,000 more set 2be in POVERTY within 5 Yrs..analysis shows
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100,000 more children set to be in poverty within five years, new analysis shows

Currently, 4.3 million children in the UK live in poverty, with 1 million experiencing destitution.

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November 26, 2024 at 12:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone342

#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#NoDisabilityCuts
#FundAllPublicServices
#NoAusterity
#TaxTheSuperRich
#RejoinTheEU

#NeverReform

#SpendingReview: Extra Funding for #PublicServices welcomed but Labour urged to reverse #DisabilityBenefit Cuts
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/spen...

Spending review: Extra funding for public services welcomed but Labour urged to reverse disability benefit cuts

From scrapping the use of asylum hotels to increasing spending on the NHS and education, LFF looks at reactions to Labour’s Spending Review.

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June 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM Everybody can reply

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@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone227

#NeverReform
#DefeatFascism

#Labour #Change
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#SaveWFA

Farage is turn-off for potential Reform Voters, Poll suggests

Reform’s surge in Polls is assumed to be attributable to Farage, yet this doesn’t seem to be the case
leftfootforward.org/2025/02/nige...

Nigel Farage is a turn-off for potential Reform voters – poll suggests

Reform’s surge in the polls is assumed to be attributable to Nigel Farage, yet this doesn’t seem to be the case.

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February 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

And at a time when National Debt was at around 200% of GDP!

#ToriesGone150

#Labour #Change
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#SocialHousing
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

December 2, 2024 at 12:54 AM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

Good Morning & a Happy ##SocialistSunday Sedley 👋

Absolutely, 💯%!

#ChildPovertyIsCriminal

#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap
#TaxTheSuperRich

#ToriesGone352

June 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@foleyjerry.bsky.social

#ToriesGone214
#ChildPovertyIsCriminal

Raise #LHA
#Scrap2ChildPolicy
#ScrapTheCap

Nearly 1m Children in UK at risk of Poverty due to Housing Costs

Thinktank suggests Ministers failure to raise LHA will push 90,000 more Families into Hardship in the next year
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...