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  1. Disabled people who want to work say they can’t due to a ‘chronically underfunded’ welfare system and accessibility issues | The Independent

    Cutting benefits doesn't get disabled people into work it just gets us into poverty.
    independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

    #BenefitCuts
    #Accessbility
    #Disabled

  2. CW: UKpol, disability

    "Labour’s collective belief in the dignity of labour regularly curdles into two toxic ways of thinking. One is a belief that paid employment is the only reliable gauge of people’s esteem; the other is a queasiness about disability that sometimes lurks just below the surface. There is also an apparently desperate need to counter any suggestion that Labour ministers are liberal fainthearts. In March, the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, offered a curt explanation of why the government was set on its plan: “This is the Labour party. The clue is in the name. We believe in work”."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #UKpol #LabourUK #DisabilityCuts #PersonalIndependencePayment #PIPcuts #JohnHarris #TheGuardianUK #BenefitCuts #UKbenefits #UKdisability #LabourPartyUK

  3. It needs more than 'dozens of Labour MPs' to get these Labour gauleiters to change course. Reeves and Starmer are just as much ideologues as George Osborne was.

    #PIP #BenefitCuts #Disability #UKPolitics

    ‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut | Benefits | The Guardian
    theguardian.com/society/2025/a

  4. Thousands will lose their PIP according to govt figures & thousands will be pushed into poverty according to the govt's own figures

    vm.tiktok.com/ZNdNkwynM/

    #Disabled
    #PIP
    #BenefitReforms
    #BenefitCuts

  5. The govt refuses to do impact assessments of the proposed cuts to benefits because they're focused on getting people in to work (I doubt there has been an assessment on the liklihood of it succeeding either or whether getting into work gets you off means tested benefits or out of poverty).

    vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLVcDsV/

    #BenefitCuts

  6. #PMQs Ms #Badenoch's crocodile tears re benefits recall Johnson's lies. Tory manifesto was a nasty magic money tree. Tax cuts would take place, paid 4 by cruel #benefitcuts. UC & PIP would be tightened, universality of benefits threatened. Badenoch should feel shame. shorturl.at/7FxJ4 #ToryLiars #RejoinEU

  7. Disability claims can’t be made on ‘unverifiable assertions’, argues Sunak in benefits crackdown | The Independent
    Diagnosis a requirement for disability benefits. What of those who are stuck on waiting lists for diagnosis or have a rare disorder with no diagnosis available?
    independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

    #PIP
    #Sunak
    #WarOnTheChronicallyIll
    #WarOnTheMentallyIll
    #WarOnTheDisabled
    #Diagnosis
    #BespokeSupport
    #BenefitCuts
    #Poverty
    #Vouchers
    #MentalHealth