Is it a 'New Dawn' for disabled people aswell?

Meg24

I'm posting this in the desperate hope that someone from Labour HQ or Scope might see this and seek to act urgently before the new government's summer recess.

There's all this talk of a "New Dawn' in the papers this morning, of how it's all different now and isn't it great. Doesn't feel that great from where I'm standing.

I will not engage with speculation about what may happen, but what we do know at the moment is that from September, so before parliament is due to sit again, the mass forced migration from ESA to UC is set to begin, which has me terrified and angry in equal measure. Then we have the news that Labour is keeping the PIP consultation open, which I have been unable to respond to because I am so terrified of that too.

Labour owes disabled people an urgent explanation of what they plan for us, of whether we are to be targetted in Reeve's 'difficult decisions' budget.

Do they not realise how terrified we all are, how many of us voted the Tories out in the desperate hope that the persecution would stop now?

I'm so happy for them that they're all having such a great time in this new world, now TELL US WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!

Amaya_Ringo

I am still awaiting the appointment of a minister for Disabilities.

Albus_Scope

It's very very early days, the new government is only getting sworn in today, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens. Though I know many people are already writing to their new MPs asking for more support for the disabled.

Remina

I truly wish the mainstream media would stop posting such hostile rhetoric, this was top story when I opened my news feed today

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13617473/Labour-declare-war-sick-note-Britain-Health-Secretary-Wes-Streeting-unveils-plans-people-benefits-NHS-waiting-lists-work.html

Literally a few months ago it was ''Tories declare war on sick note britiain', not they've just replaced 'Tories' with 'Labour'. It gets so tiring how the media portrays us as lazy, 'economically inactive' slackers. It feels so dehumanising, I know I just need to stop reading the news, but it's hard when you simply just want to see what's going on in the world and boom, you're hit with another article which feels like a personal attack against me.

Ironside1990

ThThe Daily Mail is a Tory rag. It's expected of them to write something like this.

Remina

Yeah, I'm going to stop reading the mainstream news. They're just purposely crafting these headlines to create the maximum alarm/distress for people.

I'm just tired of the sick/disabled being treated like the constant scapegoat, the constant punching bag. I'm tired of seeing so much rheotric against us all the time.

I've had 14 years in and out of hospital, treatments tried/failed, I've desperately tried my hardest and I wouldn't wish my health issues on my worst enemy, yet I feel like I'm constantly treated as some kind of waste of space, they call me 'economically inactive' and whatever other dehumanizing buzzterms they come up with and thus my self-worth as a human means nothing, just because I'm unable to work I'm treated like less than a person and I have to live in fear of possible reforms showing me and others in my situation no mercy.

Just gotta stay positive I guess, in the meantime I'll be avoiding all mainstream news outlets that's for sure.

carbow32

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/886666#Comment_886666

Same here the min I opened my computer this morning it was the first thing that came up.

Jimm_Alumni

A lot of the media does indeed play on your fears to get you to engage. As fear is one of the easiest emotions to manipulate.

Having what what Streeting actually said, he is basically saying that people who are sick are less able to work, and there are more people who are sick now because the NHS is in such a bad place. So the NHS should be focusing on trying to make people healthy again, focusing on getting patients better and to a place where their health is good enough that they can work again.