Why Starmer must lift the two-child benefit cap | Stephen Flynn Interview 

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If you kept the cap in place but agreed to pay the free school meals for all children, then responsibility to children would be met without huge cash payments to those with huge families. Looking at policies in isolation sometimes does not give a true picture.

I'm 24, a father of 3 and the Scottish child payment is a game changer

If you can’t afford kids don’t take them into poverty, think of the kids and not of yourself. Take personal responsibility and don’t expect others to sort it for you!

TAX THE RICH, FEED THE KIDS! jeeez how hard is it

One of the few voices of reason in Parliament.

For real on the disappointment when you don't get fajitas for tea. 😢

15.4 billion paid to private Landlords in 'housing benefits'. Only 12.6 billion paid in 'child benefits.'

Well said Mr Flynn absolutely spot on mate

What we forget with this evil policy is that a working parent could have been recently diagnosed with cancer & become unable to work and & would not receive full support for a third child. Why would anyone vote Labour?

Is it awful to suggest not having a third child if you can’t provide for it?

Why should i pay for more children that parents cant afford. Do not scrap the cap.

How many children shall be funded6,7,8,9,10? Wheee shall the numbers stop, Labour didnt put children in proverty, i am sorey this man is wrong, what happens in Scotland doesnt happen all over the world, the money for child proverty is not small. I thought you all didnt want Labour to put up tax. Does parents have no responsibility in this? I am sorry I am not here to work and pay taxes for people who just sits and make babies, I pay tax for older people woulf cannot work and need help, i work for peolpe wirh disability, illinesses etc. You made your children take care of these do you know many country in the world dont give benefit and people are not complaining about it as the UK does

Mr stalrmer keeps talking about funding for war defence but we are not at war.... taking children out of Poverty must Must be A first priority for the labour government with immediate effect

Children should choose parents who can afford them - its called personal responsibility.

Where do you draw the line, certain communties in the U.K. have an average of 3.8 children I went to school with someone from that community who had 7 siblings . should we be paying for people to be having that many kids when they can’t afford it, but they willingly choose to do it anyways. Where do you call the line on how many kids the tax payer needs to support. Whilst other people who might of wanted more kids might restrain because they know it’s too much of a financial burden.

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There’s a difference between not being able to do something and choosing not to do something. Labour are just as bad as the Tories and will be seen as the same party if they don’t start changing things for the better. One of those things is lifting people out of poverty. They have the money, the means to find the money and the choice of how to spend it.

Plenty of money for trident,.

If only you could be sure that it would go to feed the kids!

Lifting the two child benefits will only encourage more migrants .

Let's encourage people who can't afford to have kids, to have more kids which they can't afford...It's ok, the tax payers will foot their bill 🙄

All MPs should try to be as honest in their answers as Stephen Flynn. Well said 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The only problem with lifting the two child benefit cap is the Muslim community that have 8 or 9 kids end up costing the state an absolute fortune and its unfair on British families have one or two children

This is a question when we find out how much the Scottish Labour MPs care about Scotlands people. Either they're for Scotland or their Westminster masters they can't be both. Labour in Scotland represents a foreign government they certainly don't represent Scotland and only the gullible voted for them.

Hold them to account

@sheilabloom labour only just taken over we cant judge yet after 14 years of Conservative.

It's funny how people ask the SNP ''Because you lost so many votes have you lost the mandate for independence?''. After the last Scottish election there WAS a majority of MP's that campaigned for independence and the elected Scottish government were just told 'no' by Sunak. Starmer said he would do the same. It's just funny that journalists only ask about the independence mandate when the SNP don't have the numbers but when they do magically they don't seem to care about mandates. No voters in 2014 are responsible for the last 14 years of trash coming out of UK politics into Scotland. We would still be in the EU and would be able to press ahead properly with progressive policies instead of being chained to this center right shit show called Westminster that cares only for the private sector. Starmer's front bench literally have publicly praised Thatcher FFS! 😂😂😂😂

Throwing money at the problem isn't going to make things better.

Lift them out of poverty ✅ Give more cash to parents who can't afford the kids they chose to have when we have family control clinics and a 100% literacy rate ❎ Give the kids school meals free to lift the strain, give the kids discounted or free school trips, give high performing pupils who're from poor households financial reward for staying out of trouble, trying hard in school and changing the narrative. Set them up to succeed and want to succeed. Parents who can't afford kids but has them for the sake of it have already proven they're not making the best decisions so why give more cash? The kids are the future invest in them and let their hard work be rewarded

If people want to have more children why should finances restrict a human desire? The economy actually needs ppl to have more children, hence why the topic is everywhere atm. Low birth rates = less workers = less growth = more immigration required also.

The two-child benefit cap is a cruel, cynical and immoral policy. In practical terms it means that all the children in the family are deprived, since the available money has to be stretched further. I also hate any kind of stigma on a child that implies that he or she should not have been born.

This is a "New Labour" government, not a Labour Party one... Labour has not had power since 1979, 45 years ago... Be honest and use their real name.

Why can’t we have Mr Flynn as PM? He’s got it all - and most importantly, he has integrity… it shines out of him.

Let’s all have more kids and go on benefits then and nobody works, that way everyone can sit on their arse and be paid for doing it, fair enough right?

Love Stephen Flynn, thoroughly decent guy

Here we have the SNP once again talking sense and the Scottish electorate chose to reduce their voice down to 9 seats, it's sad that the one party who always tries to do what is right for the UK are seen as the enemy. What many fail to understand about the SNP is this: Yes they want independence BUT they also want what is best for the UK and the people of the UK WHILE we are in the union, as what is bad for the UK is bad for Scotland and they love Scotland with a passion and do not like to see it's people being mauled by bad decisions. So now they will try and put forward an amendment in WM on the issue to try get Labour to be sensible but it will amount to nothing with only 9 seats, in the meantime Scottish labour MP's "Scotland's voice at the heart of a Labour Government" (remember that beauty) will do nothing but what the whip tells them. Never forget this, there is not such thing as a Scottish Labour MP, just Labour MP's. Feel free to check the Electoral commission and search for registered political parties. They don't exist.

Yes let’s increase taxes of hardworking couples who can’t afford children so the scroungers can keep having more, who then also end up on benefits. Well done labour

Don't have kids if you cannot afford them - not rocket science.

84 million to Africa.

As a middle class, fairly decent earner living in the South East of the UK, I couldn’t agree more with Flynn.

If you can’t afford it don’t have more children simple as. Why should someone else pay for your poor decision. Of course it is terrible seeing children in poverty but ultimately it’s their parents who are to blame. Yes there are some who are not in the right circumstances etc have kids young… but why should someone else pick up the bill.

Sorry I disagree on this one. Lifting the cap would result in those fiddling the system having more children to get more benefits. The fix should be not paying people to have more kids.

Sir Kid Starver is doing exactly as expected

I don't think this cap should be lifted. I had 2 children back in the early 80's and stopped because I wouldn't have been able to afford any more. I understand that families circumstances can change but you have to think about this before you decide to have more than 2.

When I was a kid we occasionally had to go without Fajitas and sky TV, so of course I know the difficulties families are facing

Child benefit does not go to children, it goes to their parents. I don't believe that the cap is the best way to get children out of abject poverty that includes hunger. Unfortunately some parents have other pressures too, ones that could mean loosing their home, expensive bills or a chaotic lifestyle. These "other" pressures often can have a priority over food. Using money that is given directly to children via breakfast clubs, free dinners and after school clubs. These, with the inclusion of better child and adult services is the better use of funding for now. More can be done to help children directly this way, which is the plan for now.

I think at least 3 children. That is a start. Its the single mothers I feel for or the mothers who has to leave an abusive relationship and now has to bring up her children alone. It’s all well and good saying stop having them if you can’t afford them but a lot of women didn’t choose to have children alone.

Labour doesn't care about the working class because Starmer doesn't.

will they scrap it? depends how well that policy tests on talk tv i guess...

Why should the tax payer pay for kids if you can’t afford kids don’t have them.

It's revenge, it won't actually release the hostages. In Minecraft. (I was talking about the two-child benefit cap)

I get angry when i dont get fajitas for tea!

but labour have a child poverty strategy. what is that strategy? 🤷‍♂ know one knows and they aint saying. JUST BELIEVE where have i heard that before?

"fix the thing we spent 14 years breaking immediately"

Is it a thing that needs doing? Yes. Are there things that need doing first? Personally, I think so. Can Labour do everything at once? Obviously not. And Stephen Flynn said it himself: 14 years of Tory rule. That doesn't get resolved in less than a month.

love stephen flynn

Funfacts. Employers in the UK are not obligated to pay for children. One child or ten, your wages never change. If you asked for a wage rise because you have kids, then you would be laughed out of the office. Our system is just not set up right.

Red Tories at work.

£26 a week.. game changing. Okay then.

Hah, I was going to make fajitas for my tea tonight

I’m sorry but why am I paying for other peoples brats ?? I don’t have children because I don’t want the expense of it purely and simple. If you can’t afford 2 children let alone 3 or more then that’s on you , stop going with the begging. BOwl to the tax payers

The Autumn Statement by Rachel Reeves.. she will find the cash to do it. Under promise, over deliver is their plan.

It's imperative that the cap is abolished.

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He dismisses the financial difficulties around the UK government removing the 2 child policy but when pressed on his own governments policy he immediately falls back to financial difficulty.

Brexit has cost over £100 Billion so far, imagine if we'd spent that on the country instead of Brexit lies and fantasies, time reparations were paid, Brexiteers owe us £100 Billion !!!

whos kids??

Don’t lift the cap.

4:23 what’s the guy in the background with the black gloves on up to? V sus.

Only problem is there's about 2,000 things that need reversing/repairing. The thing is with taxing is it will still take quite some time to build the coffers required.

Glad labour and conservative are of one mind on this. It’s not a spending priority and need the grownups to take difficult calls. I agree on tightening up CGT and dividend tax and offshore bonds. Plenty of cash to fix the urgent stuff.

Stephen - why don't you lot focus on getting our national debt down. LIke the rest of us you all want a positive personal balance sheet - why don't you run the country in that way? It's atrocious - forcing us all to keep paying for your wasteful spending. You would never run your own affairs like that!

No he musn't. If people want more kids they can go to work and stop relying on the taxpayer to fund their choice in lifestyle. Having a baby is a CHOICE. Choose BETTER.

Fajita Flynn

What about the father getting their kids out of poverty?

I wish , after 17 years the SNP would do something good for the country they are meant to represent. Que the standard excuse, it’s no us it’s Westminster

Oh poor wee Flynn - Scotland being embarrassed by Germany hardly registered on England fans' radars. He should have some great housing policies, seeing as how England football lives rent free in his head 🤣

Does the UK need to increase the population?? If yes, let the immigrants stay, much cheaper than raising babies....

Now tell us what your plan is to pay for it. I get wanting it gone - a lot of people want it gone, as it's a policy which punishes people for changes in circumstances. The problem is that if all you do is say "Make it go away", you're not solving a problem, you are carping from the sidelines and trying to sabotage a new government, rather than acting as some sort of moral leader. Of course, the latter is really the priority here: the SNP want the gloss to come off any new government before there's Hollyrood elections - they're perfectly allowed to do that, but let's not dress it up.

What next! Pay for extra wives!! Oh wait a minute that actually exists 😮 LOOK AFTER YOUR OWN KIDS OR DON'T HAVE THEM!

Isn't this the infinity immigration guy?

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Steve Flynn acting like a child on Twitter

Where's the money???

The other way to look at it is that parents are choosing to bring those children into poverty. 2 child cap is realistic, affordable and manageable.

How is this guy still leader? He lost the majority of his seats. And anyway, no one is stopping them having children. They can have as many as they want. Just dont expect me to pay for them. Its called personal responsibility.

Don't have kids you can't provide for.

Good to see the wind taken out of his sails - lots of good intentions corrupted by the bs which is Scottish independence. He should switch over to Labour.

Don't agree - if you can't afford more than 2 kids, don't have them.

Labour can find money for weapons and war, but not for children in poverty, says everything about Kid Starver and his party.

Hmmmm..now...who demographically would benefit from lifting the two child benefit cap 🤔🤔🤔🤔......hmmm... I wonder 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔....

Vasectomies are free in England….

Sorry but after two thats it the goverment really shouldnt be giving anymore and before anyone comes at me no im not rich and yes i have 2 kids and if i had a 3rd id still feel this way SNP sitting talking like they know how to look after there people when we are sitting here with high drug deaths and poor kids and schools 🏫

We can’t afford to pay for extra children the parents should look after there children they decided to have them they should be able to afford to look after them not the tax payers

SNP currently can't field an 11 man football team with their MPs so they need to be quiet

Don't have kids you can't afford to have. I'm the eldest of 4 siblings and my parents did not receive handouts. My dad worked with the same company my entire life and put himself through college while I was a baby. Working the fruit market in the morning, college during the day and work at night. He built his way up through his work and has remained through 3 seperate takeovers of the business. My mum worked 3 jobs at one point. Self employed with each one. Working from early in the morning to late at night. If they stopped working, even for a couple of weeks, they wouldn't be able to pay the mortgage. Improve sex education in schools and make vasectomies more widely accessible.

Your kids are your responsibility not every tax payers What about the millions of invisible people single or those who chose not to have kids who get no help struggle but are taxed to the hilt to pay for other peoples kids

Kids wouldnt be in poverty if people stopped having too many if you cant feed them dont breed them. Take note all you muslim brethren.