1/ Starmer is calling cuts to disability support 'behavioural change'- Nudge. Illness is not a 'behaviour'. It's spectacularly & absurdly cruel to claim further cuts to support to meet basic survival needs will cure people & 'help' them into work. Dangerous, cruel pseudoscience
2/ Nudge is pseudoscientific bullshit that can't cure illness & disability. 'Libertarian paternalism' isn't a policy. It's an ideological tool used by governments to nudge people deeper into poverty, handing out the money 'saved' to billionaires. 
3/ Ill & disabled people did not consent to being experimented on by the government's punitive, discriminatory and stigmatising, pseudoscientific quackery or the cuts that will endanger lives.
4/ Illness & disability is NOT a 'role' or 'collection of sickness behaviours, that we can be 'punished out of by a technocratic government's experiments on its population without our consent. Dangerous & harmful mindset that violates fundamental human rights & inflicts harms
5/ 'Hands, Face, Space' was the nudge strategy of the previous government to 'tackle' the pandemic while handing out billions of public funds to chums for fake contracts. It didn't prevent deaths, it didn't stop the virus because it's snakeoil psychobabble bullshit
6/ It's not ill & disabled people who need to 'change behaviours'. It is government. No-one seems to be nudging the corrupt and sadistic nudgers. The only group of people being nudged are the poorest citizens. Nudge is just a cover for discrimination, cruel & punitive, cuts
7/ A measure of how discriminatory 'nudge' is may be seen in who it is almost exclusively imposed upon. The poor. The 2 child limit on social security was a 'nudge' to 'change behaviours according to Iain Duncan Smith. Disabled people were also nudged previously. Didn't work then
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