With Nigel Farage thinking he has seen the light by accepting Liz Truss into his ‘no salad’ party and his almost incoherent rant this week harnessing Trump’s ‘Austerity First’ into REFORM UK policy, his Councillors in Northumberland have already been beaten to the line by ultra right farmer Glen Sanderson’s secret cabinet Tories and their ‘Austerity Always’ policy which includes a Doge like workforce scatter program to lower its wage and pensions obligations.
Farage’s activity pushed by him and backed up by his public school educated leadership group mates are trying to emulate Trump’s austerity attack on society in America who are suffering the net effects of his massive world-wide slump caused by his on the hoof tariffs that almost led to 42M Americans being starved to death as his austerity program was to be kickstarted by halting food credits.
The Trump administration threatened to suspend all SNAP food benefits, affecting nearly 42 million Americans. This led a coalition of over two dozen states to file a lawsuit to force the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release emergency reserve funds. The administration eventually agreed to use contingency funds to pay partial benefits, though the full extent of the payments remains in question amidst conflicting statements from Trump and the White House.
In the UK Trump's tariffs have hit hard and ever more people are having to rely on regular handouts from food banks, with this year's figures moving towards 5 % of the population, Tory darling Glen Sanderson’s secret cabinet plans for wage reduction won’t help the County's commerce, retail trade or hospitality sector at all (we’ll come back to that shortly) first we must put to bed the REFORM racist argument of its ‘all the immigrants fault’.
The truth is Food bank users in the UK are overwhelmingly UK-born individuals. While the exact number of British citizens among the total users is not specified in recent reports, a recent study noted that this group forms the vast majority of the 2.9M service users last year, the trussel trust estimate In Northumberland is that 16240 households. There are three foodbanks who publish data regularly use food banks with fair shares aid helping almost as many older people who live on benefits and pensions but don’t qualify for food aid, making an estimated 10% of households in Northumberland use food aid in one form or another.
Nationally this much needed help has forced up retail prices beyond the norm and is fuelling food inflation that will be stretched further by Northumberland Conservatives doge plans to change its workforce into a very low paid entity.
Glen Sanderson’s cabinet has begun a program to rid itself of workers on the top increments of their wage scales without making those posts redundant. Workers will be pushed out of the door on a confidentiality agreement which pays them a lump sum and be replaced with workers on the bottom of his stretched incremental change program with many jobs now covering two or three pay scales before workers reach the top of the grade. Lowering the County pay bill for possibly a decade and beyond.
This plan will demoralise the sectors reliant on the income from Council workers who make up the largest income sector in job numbers terms across the county and force up shop prices even further as its becoming evident that shrinkflation and high prices are becoming the norm in many of Northumberland’s towns hit by 14 years of Conservative delivered austerity and Brexit failures followed by Trump's international attack on goods and services through his REFORM UK backed tariff scheme and Northumberland Conservatives ‘Austerity Always’ series of policy secrets.
So who needs REFORM?
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