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Among the challenges that electrification is currently facing is the sharp rise in electricity prices during the energy crisis
This will forever be the most annoying thing to me, cheap renewables are displacing thousands of gwh’s of gas and coal yet prices go up, kills me
many got long covid and cannot work and the solution is to cut off their income rather than invest in science and treatment and help people get to a state where they can work
But you’re broke and going broker, you can’t afford science and treatment, I’ve heard about the NHS being in a bad state for over a decade now, now if you were the worlds reserve currency like the USA then sure, turn on the money printer! but you’re not so… bit of a crappy situation to me!
If GDP and growth rises (by having more people working) then the budget can balance better and welfare can be increased
Maybe kicking everyone who thinks Brexit was a good idea in the shins might help move things along, wonder how many billions that has cost the UK
From my perspective it’s not about people or their disabilities, it’s simple economics, if you don’t have the money to provide the welfare but keep paying it out you can end up in a debt spiral or Argentina with 5000% inflation as the money printers are turned on to fund things when credit ratings are downgraded, is it really that surprising they are cutting back on spending?
Remember, the upturn in benefits came post covid
Can Labour Fix the Welfare System? - TLDR News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n1aQph1UMo
My understanding is there is no real link between COVID and welfare payments with young people for example least impacted by COVID but the biggest increase is payments to them for anxiety:
Which Starmer is directly tackling:
Starmer’s welfare reforms will make it harder to claim payments for conditions such as anxiety https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/14/benefits-claims-minor-mental-health-problems/
More than half of the rise in working-age disability claims since the pandemic is related to mental health or behavioural conditions, according to official figures. Such conditions now account for almost 45 per cent of total claims.
I don’t think there’s a popular way out of this, you can’t increase payments or keep them going because you’ll go broke, every time you move something budget wise somebody is going to get upset
You’re an Aussie, why are you talking about UK tax. Are you Rupert Murdoch?!
A stinging rebuke to a guy that watched the NRL today on an illegal streaming website rather than paying a Murdoch owned streaming service 1 cent :\
To be honest there’s not enough content on Lemmy so I browse ‘all’ a lot and this came up
What sort of block if I can ask? blocking AI bots or blocking Russian bots?
which tbf makes sense
UK debt projected to almost triple over next 50 years, watchdog warns
Can’t spend money you don’t have and the UK is already at 100% debt to gdp
I wonder if this is a bit of an overreaction to the recent cuts
The changes come after concerns that the bill for those on disability and long-term sickness benefits will hit £70bn by 2030, with the number of claimants rising from the current 2.8 million to 4 million.
Same thing happening in Australia
Federal assistance to people with disabilities rose from $61 billion in the 2022 financial year to $69.4 billion the following year and is forecast to rise to $78.3 billion this year.
It’s clear that if you have a disability benefits scheme then people will attempt to get on it, sick or not
tldr budget problems
maybe not irony but it is funny op said i don’t feel like i’m missing anything! and it turns out they’re not it’s just delayed
I thought after lw upgraded the delays would go down :|
i don’t know if there’s any prioritising of types of actions, eg. posts are given higher priority than comments which is higher than up/down votes but when I made posts on lemmy.world I’d get an initial wave of upvotes from other instances and then like 12 hours later a lot of upvotes from lemmy.world users
better late than never
feel like i’m saying that a lot lately
How did the housing market get so bonkers?
COVID
Sydney and Melbourne shut down a lot, Melbourne in particular had I think one of the longest shutdowns in the world whilst Brisbane remained largely open so we had a large internal migration of people from Sydney/Melbourne who boosted house prices to near record levels before the immigration tap was even turned back on
Then to make matters worse the cost of building materials shot through the roof and a lot of building companies went broke because they settled their contracts on older non-inflated prices
Then when the immigration tap was turned back on things just compounded
People here will say public school but what I’m seeing in real life is that a lot of people are preferring private schools, I don’t have kids so no idea what is better but I think worth getting a 2nd irl opinion outside of this place
yep they gotta figure out a way to get the price down
And who exactly is planning on invading Italy so badly that you need a trillion dollar US army to protect you?
Choose peace
You probably shouldn’t have started with: as an owner of a 2021 Tesla Model 3
This all just looks like little more than self interest dressed up as a humane outtake
You knew Musk owned Telsa and was a right wing nazi and bought it anyway
inner city humour
what is it about then?
this still going on
it’s alternative to notion not google docs
I just think this shows how America-brained so much of the UK is.
Yep, they already had the majority of brands and culture back in the 80s and 90’s but since the internet and especially since social media we’ve never been so american
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM Comments are turned off.
You should be able to get this from the web server logs, it’ll give you a minimum of ip, webpage visited and user agent
If you’re looking for something fairly private, no cookie popup and easier to use https://plausible.io/ is the go :)