Is Britain’s benefits system broken? w/ Caroline Selman and John Pring

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News, News Commentary, Government

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The new Labour government has promised bold action to fix Britain’s benefit system. Last week, Keir Starmer announced a crackdown on benefit fraud and said people on long-term sickness benefits should look for work. But is this the answer?

To chew over the Government’s plans, Coco and Nish are joined by Caroline Selman, senior research fellow at the Public Law Project, and John Pring, the founder and editor of Disability News Service and author of “The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence”. With some help from our listeners, they tell us how broken the benefit system is and how we can fix it.

Then, to mark the Conservative party conference, we have the return of the section we like to call WTF. Some absolute shockers from the Tory leadership hopefuls remind us why they are no longer in power.

Useful Links:

For advice on benefits

https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/how-deal-universal-credit-overpayment

Contacting your MP

https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/

Guests:

John Pring https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349893/the-department/

Caroline Selman https://x.com/publiclawprojct

Video Credits:

Times Radio

Sky

BBC

Daily Express

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0:00.0	This is Podsave the UK and I'm Nishkumar.
0:04.0	And I'm Coco Khan.
0:05.0	As the government commits to cracking down on welfare fraud, we're looking into our broken
0:10.1	benefit system.
0:11.1	And later to celebrate the Tory Party conference, we're bringing back
0:14.4	the section lovingly known as W.T. Fuck. Boy, there has been a lot of wild stories from the Tories
0:20.6	this week. And if you were in Birmingham this weekend yourself did you
0:23.5	pop along to conference I was doing one of my tour shows to which tickets are
0:29.2	still available Nishkmaal. UK in Birmingham on Saturday night.
0:34.4	It was like the day before the Tory Party conference started.
0:37.8	And I guess it was what people in the theatrical or show business world generally know as counter programming
0:44.4	which is where there's a big event happening or something's being released so you put
0:48.8	something else on that's aimed at the exact opposite of the target demographic.
0:53.0	Really? I'm not coming across that before.
0:55.0	Yeah, it's like, it's a thing like there was a long history of like when a big action movie was released,
1:00.0	distributors would really to Romcom as well because they were traditionally seen as being split
1:04.0	audiences. This was visceral counter-programming. This was pretty woman coming out on the same weekend as
1:10.8	Conair. Like... He is a bit of the barbonheimer about it isn't it this
1:14.3	was not a barbonheimer I cannot stress this enough this was not kumavative this was
1:20.3	definitely not kumav cumulative as a weekend.
1:22.8	That would be a sartorial nightmare, isn't it?
1:25.5	Like Conservative Party conference in the afternoon
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