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Welfare chaos is echo of empty election promises
Rossendale Free Press
|July 04, 2025
ROSSENDALE and Darwen MP Andy MacNae voted in favour of welfare reforms, which will likely see people who find themselves disabled in the future receiving less financial support than those who receive help now.
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It's a grubby fudge of a policy designed to spare the blushes of Sir Keir Starmer, who faced seeing a 160-seat majority turn against him.
It's the latest chapter in a sorry saga which has heaped mental anguish and pressure on people in society who already struggle in their daily lives.
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