It's all there in Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal in 1759... About the Irish.

You have to get the buttons pressed on both sides of the road at exactly the same time and interval...

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

Got my copy of the Bullock report on industrial democracy (1976) out of the bookshelf for the first time in ages. Complete with employer minority report.

Benefit cap excludes those working (enough £) and those on UC Health post WCA, so very much the minority still affected. The DWP spreadsheet linked says how many families benefit by the change (excluding the still benefit capped). www.gov.uk/government/p...

Getting more/higher rate Patreons may be part of the hype/plan to get this ground-truthed.

And the £1 billion extra employment support results in 20,000 to 40,000 people getting into work by 2029/30. This is more pessimistic than our estimates at the time (45,000-95,000), which @learnworkuk.bsky.social produced for us: 3/3 learningandwork.org.uk/resources/re...

Guess so - presenting it as households and all children in those households rather than the number of children benefiting is rather odd.

Looks like it. Probably witter on about work incentives if asked. May say less about UC LCWRA incentives.

Will be appearing in Labour MP socials in 10,9,8,7....

DWP has published a spreadsheet at www.gov.uk/government/p... on the number of Universal Credit households and children not receiving a child element for at least one child and not Benefit Capped, by Parliamentary Constituency, April 2025. So they know...