Chesterfield welfare cuts protest outside Chesterfield Labour club
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00:00Toby Perkins, hear us say, benefit cuts, no way!
00:04Keir Starmer, hear us say, benefit cuts, no way!
00:08Can you tell me why you're here today?
00:12I'm here because the government, once again, is punishing disabled people
00:17for something that we have absolutely no control over.
00:20They want to cut £5 billion from the welfare budget, when a 2% wealth tax
00:30could save £25 million a year.
00:34The only reason they're not doing that is because they don't want to tax their friends,
00:38so they go for the most vulnerable people in the country.
00:43I am a local person living in Chesterfield and I've turned up today to show my solidarity
00:51with disabled people everywhere because these cuts are going to cause real damage and harm to
00:57people all over the country, especially disabled people.
01:01Yeah, it's bad.