One protester says she pays £1,500 for her two children for three days a week - including the free hours she gets for her eldest trib.al/sc4hZCV

It’s always “why have kids when you can’t afford them” (🙄) and not “hey let me think critically and wonder why, in the UK, parents have to pay to go to work and women are regularly forced out of the workforce altogether?” #MarchOfTheMummies Rishi Sunak

Celebrities promoting private healthcare is not a great look.

The chamber groans as Tory Lord Markham suggests nurses should see their jobs as a vocation instead of striking for higher pay. bit.ly/3WepZ8b

(Nurses’ pay has fallen by 20% over the last decade. That means they are working one day a week for free)

'As much as I love teaching my students, if it can’t pay my bills, I’ll have no choice but to stop doing what I love, stop doing what I’m bloody good at, and start doing whatever pays the bills.'

I spoke to teachers struggling with the cost-of-living.

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Rishi Sunak - Have they looked after you?

Hospital patient - They always do, but it's a pity you don't pay them more

Rishi Sunak - We're trying

Patient - No, you're not trying, you need to try harder

Brutal. And absolutely worth your time.
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'This exploitation of nursing staff cannot be tolerated any longer': Nurses’ pay has fallen by 20% over the last decade. That means they are working one day a week for free. bit.ly/3DFefV2

Today another guest who'd been sanctioned - UC payment for the month just 4.91.
He hadn't eaten for 4 days and had walked miles.
Thankfully he got support onsite.
But how many others are struggling and suffering in silence?
We've had over 12 years of this cruel policy.
Enough!

The choices made during the budget showed us an out of touch chancellor who failed families struggling with the #CostOfLivingCrisis .

No, I don't mean Kwarteng's #minibudget , the one given by Rishi Sunak in the Spring. #PMQs indicated nothing has changed.

Housing benefit cuts are squeezing private tenants, with the most severely-impacted cities experiencing up to 75% increases in the number of claimants facing rent shortfalls over the past two years

By me, for Byline Times
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These guys helped me with a PIP appeal. Good to see them being recognised for the work they do.

Perhaps some think it's more difficult to argue during a #costoflivingcrisis , but with benefits reduced in real terms for over a decade, if we want people relying on them to live in dignity we really should be campaigning for an increase higher than the rise of inflation.

This is a clip from next week’s The Guardian doc about the care system featuring me and my fat face. Produced by the brilliant ⁦Maeve Shearlaw⁩ and ⁦Kyri Evangelou⁩

I wish politicians would put as much energy into overcoming poverty and the #CostOfLivingCrisis as they do arguing over Braverman. #PoliticsLive

Colin Yates Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union I never want to be that person whose bank account is more important than a struggling human being next to me. If you can’t show compassion to a stranger how can you give love to your family? You’ve given everything a price.

This new report from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee says vulnerable people in supported housing have been ‘victims of terrible crimes’ including rape and murder. It says the supported housing sector is a 'complete mess'. bit.ly/3SGL48c

Report: bit.ly/3W6JZcV