As the DWP continues its antagonistic attitude towards carers, its pretty clear that there is a complete contempt for all that carers do for those they care for.
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As the DWP continues its antagonistic attitude towards carers, its pretty clear that there is a complete contempt for all that carers do for those they care for. Rather, they are (like other benefits recipients) treated as unworthy spongers who are trying to cheat the system.
Lets be clear: unpaid carers are doing work that is both compassionate & necessary in a system of social care that is dysfunctional.
The logic that decries this comes from the top!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/22/mps-threaten-fresh-inquiry-into-carers-allowance-scandal-amid-redress-delays -
As the DWP continues its antagonistic attitude towards carers, its pretty clear that there is a complete contempt for all that carers do for those they care for. Rather, they are (like other benefits recipients) treated as unworthy spongers who are trying to cheat the system.
Lets be clear: unpaid carers are doing work that is both compassionate & necessary in a system of social care that is dysfunctional.
The logic that decries this comes from the top!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/22/mps-threaten-fresh-inquiry-into-carers-allowance-scandal-amid-redress-delays@ChrisMayLA6 Sorry Chris to rub it in on a Sunday morning, and Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.'
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@ChrisMayLA6 Sorry Chris to rub it in on a Sunday morning, and Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.'
Well, on the basis that I disagree with Musk on principle, then I'll take that as a vindication of empathy - near the end of my academic career I was playing around with writing a book on the necessary political economy of empathy, and how the distancing of markets undermined the key social value that had got us here (and so would eventually destroy us by its absence)... Musk & I live on different planets, it would seem
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Well, on the basis that I disagree with Musk on principle, then I'll take that as a vindication of empathy - near the end of my academic career I was playing around with writing a book on the necessary political economy of empathy, and how the distancing of markets undermined the key social value that had got us here (and so would eventually destroy us by its absence)... Musk & I live on different planets, it would seem
@ChrisMayLA6 Yes, and the techno-fascist atmosphere that is drifting from across the ocean is becoming palpable.
Not that Europe is without that kind of vice.
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As the DWP continues its antagonistic attitude towards carers, its pretty clear that there is a complete contempt for all that carers do for those they care for. Rather, they are (like other benefits recipients) treated as unworthy spongers who are trying to cheat the system.
Lets be clear: unpaid carers are doing work that is both compassionate & necessary in a system of social care that is dysfunctional.
The logic that decries this comes from the top!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/22/mps-threaten-fresh-inquiry-into-carers-allowance-scandal-amid-redress-delays@ChrisMayLA6 Post office, Windrush, contaminated blood and now this. Governments are like insurance companies delaying payment in the hope that the claimant dies before payment made
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As the DWP continues its antagonistic attitude towards carers, its pretty clear that there is a complete contempt for all that carers do for those they care for. Rather, they are (like other benefits recipients) treated as unworthy spongers who are trying to cheat the system.
Lets be clear: unpaid carers are doing work that is both compassionate & necessary in a system of social care that is dysfunctional.
The logic that decries this comes from the top!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/22/mps-threaten-fresh-inquiry-into-carers-allowance-scandal-amid-redress-delays@ChrisMayLA6 DWP are playing on the fact that carers are unlikely to abandon their caree. I remember reading about parents with young children occupying a housing office when desperate for permanent housing. Maybe it's time for carers to do something similar?
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