Dr Jay Watts is taking the fight to Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall over the cuts to the welfare bill

June 26th, 2025

Dr Jay Watts is doing a fantastic job holding Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall to account over their disastrous plans to cut the welfare bill.

Dr Watts' posts to X are very informative and give a great insight into what the actual cuts could mean for claimants.

Here's a few recent posts from Dr Watts:

  • If Andy Burnham was an MP, I reckon he would have a very good shot right now.


  • Dunno how Liz Kendall seems suddenly to be escaping criticism and it all be placed on Starmer's Chief of Staff. Kendall is literally the minister for work & pensions and has caused unimaginable suffering, quite literally reverberating in many folk's head as intrusive thoughts.


  • The Green Paper may be on life support, but don’t exhale yet. Labour could repackage it in kinder language—but the harm will be the same. We need to kill the ideology, not just this version.


  • Get rid of sanctions. Increase support for those who want to work, safeguard the 'access to work' fund and encourage employers to be more disability-friendly. Stop re-assessing people even if they are not dying!


  • 163 MPs have now signed the 'reasoned amendment'!


  • The only argument Labour defenders have left is “1,000 people go on PIP a day – the size of Leicester!” So let’s contextualise: 4,822 adults are referred to IAPT every single day, 13,699 to mental health services – most left waiting. Want fewer PIP claims? Give help upstream.


  • Former work and pensions secretary David Blunkett has told LBC a failed vote could see the end of the Prime Minister, just 12 months into his time in Downing Street. Lord Blunkett told LBC’s Andrew Marr: "If they lost it, they'd have to go for a vote of confidence, I think”.


  • MPs think swapping PIP’s 4+ rule for a 3+ rule will calm rebels? I damn hope not! Only ONE activity—needing help in/out of a bath—scores at 3 points. This “concession” would make almost no difference and shows how little PIP is understood.


  • Let’s not forget: the Green Paper being quietly condoned now is the same one disabled folk were bullied over for months—by a furious, moralising Kendall. The only resistance came from us. For a very, very long time.


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